THE MAN IN THE CAGE

by John Holbrook Vance

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Random House, 1960 . Octavo, boards. First edition. In the Ambler tradition of plunging an innocent bystander into the thick of international finagling, it involves an American engineer in the passage of arms to Algerian rebels. Ingenious in action, vivid in local color, it brings off the rare trick of presenting a hero who is admirably resourceful physically and mentally without any hint of the irritating and

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