JOURNEY INTO FEAR
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First American Edition. Item #7850
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth, with titling, zig-zag pattern, and publisher's device stamped in blue to spine and covers; blue topstain; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-275,[3]pp. Light wear to spine ends, small vintage bookplate to front endpaper, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy, with the blue topstain bright and unfaded. In the correct first printing dustjacket, price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears and creases, and a vintage L.A. bookseller's ticket to upper rear flap; Very Good+ to Near Fine, absent the usual heavy wear.
Ambler's sixth novel, in which a naval engineer, during the course of an ordinary business trip to Istanbul, is marked for assassination by the agents of three countries. Unable to extract himself from the situation by reasoning with it, he is forced to take action in order to stay alive. Basis for Norman Foster and Orson Welles's 1943 film noir, starring Welles, Joseph Cotten, and Dolores del Rio. The Dark Page, Vol.1, p.2; Hubin, p.7; Selby 208.
Price: $1,500.00