Passage of Arms
by AMBLER, Eric
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good ++ Price-Clipped
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1960. Bound in rust colored cloth, stamped in gold and red. In the original dust jacket that is priced clipped. A light bit of darkening to spine a bit of rubbing -- but overall, a great copy of this suspense novel by one of the masters of the genre. 243pp.. First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good ++ Price-Clipped.
Synopsis
Passage of Arms is a novel by Eric Ambler, written in 1959. It is a fast paced thriller about the discovery of a cache of arms abandoned by communist insurgents in the jungle of Malaya, and the transfer of the arms via Singapore to Indonesia. The book is structured as a story within a story within a story. The outer story is that of Girija Krishnan, the Tamil plantation clerk who finds the cache and sells it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5000687
- Title
- Passage of Arms
- Author
- AMBLER, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++ Price-Clipped
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Suspense;
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...