AMBLER, ERIC — The Schirmer Inheritance
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. A stated first American edition of Eric Ambler's gripping eighth novel. This is a story about a fortune in bonds left when Amelia Schneider Johnson died, and the search for her heir which leads from Pennsylvania to Nazi Germany, Yugoslavia and an ".unexpected end". --- In patterned yellow paper-covered boards with black spine titling; black topstain. Dust jacket features Elliott Erwitt photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound, sound copy, but with somewhat cocked spine. Unclipped ($3.00 net) jacket with chipping and chafing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; (8), 246 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .
