AMBLER ERIC The Ability to Kill

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AMBLER, ERIC. The Ability to Kill. 2 copies: First and second printings. 8vo, gilt-lettered red cloth; crisp dust jackets. London: Bodley Head, 1962; 1963

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first edition, first issue with the dr. adams chapter. inscribed and signed for penzler in 1989, on title-page. Only about fifty copies of this issue were bound for promotional purposes when a potential libel suit caused the publisher to stop press and substitute an essay on Hanratty and the A6 Murders for the section about Dr. Adams. The entire 32-page gathering was reprinted while the stock was still in sheets. A copy of the corrected issue is included in this lot (London, 1963).