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John Le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell) | First Editions
1931
See below our stock of John Le Carre First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
![The Saville Club 1868-1968. [a souvenir booklet]. Monja DANISCHEWSKY, Stephen WATTS, John LE...](/pictures/thumb/55414.jpg?v=1590508743)
The Saville Club 1868-1968. [a souvenir booklet].
London: the Saville Club, 1968. [London Gentlemen's Club Centenary magazine] SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTORS. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.31 [1]. Also with the Centenary Dinner menu loose at rear. Liberally SIGNED by various contributors and club members, including Stephen Potter, John Pudney, Winston Graham, Ralph Richardson, Eric Linklater, Michael Ayrton..... More
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1996. [Diaries] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 214. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Purple endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.00. A few spots to top edge and preliminaries. Light handling. Near fine. Guinness' diary between January 1995 and June 1996..... More
A Small Town In Germany.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket. Price clipped else fine in a fine wrapper. 'A Small Town In Germany' is set in Bonn, the small and provincial capital of West Germany, where Le Carré had worked..... More
A Small Town In Germany.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s. Fine in like wrapper. 'A Small Town In Germany' is set in Bonn, the small and provincial capital of West Germany, where le Carré had worked in..... More
Call For The Dead.
New York, NY: Walker & Company, 2004. [Spy Thriller] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xx; 151 [5]. Publisher's black paper-covered boards with silver titles to spine and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Krystyna Skalski, priced at $18.00. Remainder mark to top edge, otherwise a fine copy. First..... More
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, purple endpapers, purple dust-wrapper with red and white titles, priced at £18.99. A fine copy which appears to be unread. A theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing and a...... More
Absolute Friends.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, purple endpapers, purple dust-wrapper with red and white titles, priced at £18.99. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as new copy. A theatrical masterstroke..... More
A Delicate Truth.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. [Spy novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, navy blue endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Signed by the author to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf, and with..... More
A Delicate Truth.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, navy blue endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99 with 'As heard on BBC Radio 4' sticker present to front panel..... More
A Delicate Truth.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. [Spy novel] LIMITED EDITION PROOF COPY, SIGNED. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank. Publisher's softcovers with publication details to foot of upper and lower panels. A lovely fine unread copy, SIGNED by the author directly to the title page..... More
A Delicate Truth.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. [Spy novel] LIMITED EDITION PROOF COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.310; [1], Acknowledgements; [1], blank. Publisher's softcovers with publication details to foot of upper and lower panels. Trivial toning; a fine copy. A delicate counter-terror operation concerning Whitehall and Britain's most precious..... More
The Looking-Glass War.
London: Heinemann, 1965. [Cold War thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Post-octavo (20 x14cm), pp.[x]; 246. Publisher's hardcover in dust-wrapper. With autograph in ballpoint to flyleaf. A fine copy of the book in rich red jacket, entirely free of fading. Price-clipped with minor laminate shrink else a crisp fine example. Simply stunning-..... More
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[Manuscript Letter Signed].
no place: no publisher, 31st March 1997. [Letter] MANUSCRIPT LETTER. Handwritten letter on headed with printed addresses of the author's London and Cornish homes (29 x 20cm), mounted in a smart grey cloth hardcover wallet, lettered in gilt to the spine. The letter reads: "Dear Mr Snell, | Thank you..... More
The Night Manager.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. [Spy Thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[10] 429 [9]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Chip Kidd and Carol Devine Carson, priced at $24.00. A fine copy. Basis for the Emmy..... More
A Small Town in Germany.
New York, NY: Coward-McCann, 1968. [Spy Thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.383 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt facsimile signature to upper. Top edge orange. With the dust-jacket designed by Lennie Slonevsky, priced at $6.95. Gilt oxidised to spine. Some light marks..... More
The Clandestine Muse
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 1986. [Espionage / Literature] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 250 copies, plus 10 'hors commerce' copies. Original marbled paper wrappers, embossed title page. Some wear to paper joints else a fine copy. The text of a John le Carré lecture on writing and his career..... More
The Constant Gardener.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2001. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.508. Publisher's blue cloth hardback, brown endpapers, in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. A clean, near fine copy. Le Carre's acclaimed novel was filmed during 2005 and stars Ralph Fiennes as Kenya-based English diplomat Justin Quayle, whose wife..... More
A Legacy of Spies.
London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 264; [2]. Exclusive signed edition: Signed by the author in black ink to a tipped in leaf preceding half title. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket..... More
A Legacy of Spies.
London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 264; [2]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to the spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of £20.00. A fine copy. A Secret Service novel following Peter Guillam, once the right-hand..... More
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The Little Drummer Girl [Proof copy and published book]
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. [Thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF IN PROOF-ONLY WRAPPER, together with the FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.429; 430. Publisher's pale blue softcovers in bronze-effect dust-jacket, and publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, in the trade dust-jacket. Both copies in very good condition..... More
The Little Drummer Girl.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. [Spy Novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.[14] 430 [4]. Number 419 of just 1048 copies specially produced for the Book-of-the-Month Club, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's tan quarter buckram with green cloth over..... More
The Mission Song.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 339; [6]. With a map of Africa at rear. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, russet endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A fine/as new copy. A naive young interpreter stumbles into the heart of an..... More
The Mission Song.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 339; [6]. With a map of Africa at rear. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, russett-coloured endpapers pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine, unread copy. A naive young interpreter..... More
A Most Wanted Man.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Publisher's black cloth hardback lettered in silver to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. Small crease to spine of jacket, which is price clipped. A near fine copy. Basis for the acclaimed 2014 movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and..... More
A Most Wanted Man.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm). Publisher's black cloth hardback lettered in silver to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Minor dustiness to top edge. Near fine in fine jacket. Basis for the acclaimed 2014 movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel..... More