Item #67316 To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler. Ian FLEMING, John, BUCHAN, Eric AMBLER.
To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.
To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.
To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.
To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.

To Catch A Spy. An Anthology of Favourite Spy Stories Edited and Introduced by Eric Ambler.

New York: Atheneum, 1964. [Anthology] FIRST U.S. EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's hardcovers, gilt titles to spine, black endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey priced at $4.50. With autograph of Eric Ambler to half-title. A clean, near fine copy in similar jacket. Contains Ian Fleming's James Bond novella 'From A View To A Kill'. Fleming was a close friend of Ambler, and they shared the same agent; Fleming proof-read one of Ambler's novels and even took over his former holiday cottage. From the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Purchased from fellow Fleming aficionado James M. Pickard (invoice tucked in). Item #67316

Gilbert A8a, page 286.

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