"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
The Mask Of Dimitrios.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1944. [Spy thriller] A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel. Sixth printing. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth blocked with white titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper with classic artwork by Barlow. Internally very clean with no spotting of browning, discreet ownership to free endpaper, corner of same clipped, as is the wrapper. A few minor rubs to jacket, lightly worn to spine ends. A near fine example in the same format as the first edition. An important writer of thrillers, Ambler is a Haycraft-Queen listed novelist and one of a select few writers who have won a CWA award on three separate occasions. Ian Fleming later acknowledged Ambler's work as a influential factor in the development of Commander James Bond. This title was a direct source book for the novel From Russia With Love (Ian Fleming The Bibliography, Section L, p.621). This copy is from the collection of bibliographer Jon Gilbert (pencil ownership within). Item #69365
Howard Haycraft; Murder For Pleasure. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction, see also Haining; Crime Fiction p.201. Gilbert; Ian Fleming The Bibliography.
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