Apr 08, 2010 - Sale 2209

Sale 2209 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
AMBLER, ERIC. Journey Into Fear. 8vo, sky blue cloth stamped in black on spine panel, scattered small white spotting to covers, few faint spots to edges; owner's address sticker on front pastedown; dust jacket, spine panel and folds toned and lightly rubbed with a very few small chips, 1-inch clean tear at top of rear panel, two additional 3-mm clean tears along left of spine panel. London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1940)

Additional Details

first edition of Ambler's pre-World War II thriller which became the subject for the 1943 eponymous film noir starring Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles.