AMBLER ERIC Background to Danger

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AMBLER, ERIC. Background to Danger. 8vo, variant orange cloth stamped in black; dust jacket, minute wear to spine ends and tips, few smudges of light red paint on rear panel, not affecting text; note by Penzler about the binding cloth color laid in. New York: Knopf, 1937

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first american edition. signed by ambler on title. with a copy of the advance reading copy, inscribed and signed to penzler, dated 1989 on title-page. 8vo, wrappers, worn, lettering re-inked by hand along spine.
Ambler's second book and one of his early attempts in expanding the formula of the spy novel as previously known.