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JUDGMENT ON DELTCHEV.
Edition: First printing, first issue dust jacket.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1951) dj. Hardcover first edition - Ambler's seventh novel - but his first since World War II (his previous novel, "Journey into Fear," was published in 1940. When a playwright is asked to write an article about Deltchev's trial in the Balkans, he is expecting the usual travesty common to Communist regimes. Instead he discovers the secret and powerful Brotherhood and realizes he has to find out the truth, even if it will never come out in the trial. 256 pp. In the first issue dust jacket illustrated by Leslie Wood.
Condition: Very good in light blue cloth in a good dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, dj is price-clipped, has overall edgewear with some minor chipping, loss of about 1 cm at top of spine)
Book ID: 77635More details Price: $75.00 -
JUDGMENT ON DELTCHEV.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ambler's seventh novel - but his first since World War II (his previous novel, "Journey into Fear," was published in 1940. When a playwright is asked to write an article about Deltchev's trial in the Balkans, he is expecting the usual travesty common to Communist regimes. Instead he discovers the secret and powerful Brotherhood and realizes he has to find out the truth, even if it will never come out in the trial. 247 pp. Dust jacket by Bill English.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. (small chip missing from base of dj spine, with spot on spine, light toning to pages, sunning to spine)
Book ID: 77636More details Price: $45.00 -
LIFE IN THE DARK AGES: A Memoir.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Fromm International, 1995. First edition - At age 72 and facing death from lung cancer, Pawel looks back at his life beginning in 1934 Belgrade, where he and his family moved to from Berlin shortly after the Nazis took power. Pawel is best known for the landmark biography of Franz Kafka "The Nightmare of Reason." 247 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed green wrappers.
Book ID: 66795More details Price: $18.50 -
PRINCESS PRO TEM.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. dj. Hardcover - A story of high adventure in the Balkans. Novel of international intrigue and romance, set into motion when a dying king decides that his American granddaughter should take over the throne. 302 pp
Condition: Near fine in orange cloth - a bright, clean and tight copy (prev owner's name mostly erased from frontendpaper), no dj.
Book ID: 31137More details Price: $16.00
