Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

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Eric Ambler | Epitaph for a Spy, 1938, presentation copy signed by the author

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February 4, 02:05 PM GMT

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1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Eric Ambler


Epitaph for a Spy. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938


FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ("To Mr Edgeley | with best wishes from | Eric Ambler") on title-page, original light blue cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, binding soiled and faded, slightly skewed, dust-jacket frayed at extremities with minor loss


A presentation copy of the author's third novel, reviewed by the Sunday Times as "a spy story of outstanding merit".


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The Alexis Galanos Collection