Background to Danger
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937.
First American edition, first printing. [xii], 280 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with dark brown stamping. Near Fine with bookseller's stamp to front free endpaper, pages toned with age, offsetting to endpapers, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with wear spot along top edge of front panel, tiny stain, rubbing, unclipped ($2.00). A spy novel that inspired a 1943 film directed by Raoul Walsh; the British first was titled Uncommon Danger. Item #140944728
Price: $700.00
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