AMBLER, Eric.

£6,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Uncommon Danger. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Arthur, with all the best, from Eric".This copy has a superb family provenance, set out in a letter by Ambler, loosely inserted: "This first edition copy of Uncommon Danger was the one I gave to my stepfather, Arthur Waters, when it was first published. It was among my mother's books when she died and was retrieved by my sister." Ambler recounts in his autobiography, Here Lies, that Waters was "a man in the naval air service" (p. 50) who befriended his parents during the First World War, marrying his mother in the late 1930s.

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