Eric Ambler: 'Cause for Alarm', London, Hodder & Stoughton, ...

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£300 - £500

Eric Ambler: 'Cause for Alarm', London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by the author in black ink on title page "To Bob Gorham with all the best, Eric Ambler", 320pp, original blue cloth lettered in black. A very scarce signed & inscribed first edition copy of Ambler's classic spy thriller set in fascist Italy. Many authors of international thrillers have acknowledged a debt to Ambler, including Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and others - John le Carré called him “the source on which we all draw,” and Len Deighton, “the man who lit the way for us all.”