Title: The Ability to Kill Author: Ambler, Eric Place: London Publisher: Bodley Head Date: 1962 Description: Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. One of reported 50 copies bound for promotional purposes before the publication was suppressed because Ambler's essay on Dr. John Bodkin Adams was considered potentially libelous, later issues have an essay on Hanratty and the A6 Murders substituted for the one on Dr. Adams. Lot Amendments Condition: Some bubbling to laminate covering of dust jacket; bookseller's penciled notes on endpapers; else fine. Item number: 200817
Title: The Ability to Kill Author: Ambler, Eric Place: London Publisher: Bodley Head Date: 1962 Description: Red cloth, dust jacket. First Edition. One of reported 50 copies bound for promotional purposes before the publication was suppressed because Ambler's essay on Dr. John Bodkin Adams was considered potentially libelous, later issues have an essay on Hanratty and the A6 Murders substituted for the one on Dr. Adams. Lot Amendments Condition: Some bubbling to laminate covering of dust jacket; bookseller's penciled notes on endpapers; else fine. Item number: 200817
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