Carré John Pseudonym Cornwell David (73 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with the full number string: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the printer's page. ***Near fine in blue paper-covered boards with metallic copper titles to the spine. The boards are clean with just light handling marks. No bumps or creases - just very slight reading crease to the spine. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with a pencil name to the top of the front free endpaper. Pages clean and bright. No creases or tears. Integral blue satin reading ribbon. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £16.99. The dustwrapper has no discernible faults. Extremities of dustwrapper just very slightly rubbed. No creases or tears, even to the wide foldover flaps. Dustwrapper bright. ***508 pages. 242mm x 162mm. ***'"The Constant Gardener" is a profoundly moving story of a man ennobled by tragedy, and a magnificent exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. It takes its place effortlessly among the very best of le Carré's work.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'The novel tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing there is something behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the truth and finds an international conspiracy of corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money. The plot was based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria. The book was later adapted into a feature film in 2005.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the true first edition, in the original dustwrapper, in bright crisp collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with "001" on the printer's page. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with clean pages and no ownership inscriptions. No internal foxing. No creases or tears. Integral green silk reading ribbon. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £18.99. The dustwrapper is complete, with no discernible faults - just very slight rubbing to the extremities, but no creases, chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***242mm x 160mm. 340 pages plus one-page acknowledgments by the author at the back of the book. ***'New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel "A Most Wanted Man". ***A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is He?' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice bright, crisp, collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with '001' on the printer's page. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with metallic-copper titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Top and tail of spine very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Pages clean and bright. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £20.00. The dustwrapper has no discernible faults. No creases. No tears. No fading to the light-sensitive red colour even on the spine. Dustwrapper bright. ***282 pages including a page of Acknowledgements at the back of the book. 242mm x 160mm. ***'"Agent Running in the Field" is a 2019 novel by John le Carré published on 17 Oct 2019. It was le Carré's final novel to be published before his death in 2020. The novel is set in 2018 and depicts the relationship between Nat (né Anatoly), a 47-year-old member of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and a young man (Ed) who he plays badminton with weekly. After their matches, Ed likes to rant about Brexit and the American president at the time, to which Nat quietly listens and tacitly agrees. Meanwhile, Nat is running an operation to monitor a Ukrainian oligarch living in London. Through this mission, one of Nat's agents reveals that Ed is a double agent working for Russia to undermine the European Union. Nat's MI6 colleagues begin to suspect Nat of abetting him and grill him. Through their questioning and Nat's continued investigation, Operation Jericho is revealed - a plan for the U.K. to use double agents to take down the E.U. for the U.S.'s benefit. ***In an extract from the novel published prior to publication, The Guardian describes how "Nat admits to serious reservations about the idea of England "as the mother of all democracies", describing the country as in freefall, with "a minority Tory cabinet of 10th-raters --- Labour no better. The sheer bloody lunacy of Brexit". Boris Johnson is described in the book as a "pig-ignorant foreign secretary". John le Carré's editor at Viking Books, Mary Mount, has said that "The thing about Le Carré is that he's always been as much at home in Europe as Britain. A man with his experience of the Cold War could not walk away from the divisions in Britain, and between Britain and Europe. After the referendum, there was no choice for him except to look at where we are now. It is incredibly prescient, and a very emotional book in terms of how connected he feels to the history of Britain and Europe. There's no looking away, he addresses the very current political crisis"'. (Wiki) ***First impression of the true first edition, in the original dustwrapper, in bright crisp collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with "001" on the printer's page. ***Near fine in black boards with silver titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with clean pages and no ownership inscriptions. No internal foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £20.00. The dustwrapper is complete, with no discernible faults - just very slight rubbing to the extremities, but no creases, chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***242mm x 160mm. 264 pages plus one-page of acknowledgments by the author at the back of the book. ***"He can communicate emotion, from sweating fear to despairing love, with terse and compassionate conviction. Above all, he can tell a tale. Formidable equipment for a rare and disturbing writer' - Sunday Times (General quote taken from the back panel of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper, in very nice bright, crisp, collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with '001' on the printer's page. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with metallic-copper titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Top and tail of spine very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Pages clean and bright. Dark-red endpapers. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper, which has been neatly corner price-clipped. Edges of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed and creased. No chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***310 pages including two pages of Sources at the back of the book. 242mm x 160mm. ***'""Out of the secret world I once knew I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for the reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now." ***From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, in the original dustwrapper, in bright crisp collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Michael Kanarek (front cover) (illustrator). ----------paperback. Spine and faint cover creases, edgewear, a VG+ copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 282. Publisher's black cloth, titles in bronze to spine, dark blue endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Superfantastic, with printed price of £20 to front flap. A fine, as new copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 264; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red endpapers. Dust-jacket with printed price of £20.00. Ghost of a removed sticker to front panel of the wrapper. Near fine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. ----------paperback. Printed in the UK, likely for the Canadian market as it has some Canadian publication information on the copyright page, and a $6.95 back cover price. Faint spine and corner creases, a VG+ copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.344; [8]. Publisher's beige cloth boards, titles in blue to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of £12.95 net in UK. Textblock toned, some light spotting to edges. Lightly handled. Spine of wrapper marginally sunned. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 340; [4]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, dark red endpapers, Dust-jacket featuring photographs by Christian Barnett, with printed price of £18.99. Lightly handled. Near fine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good to Very Good+. ----------paperback, printed in the UK for the Canadian market, with a 60¢ cover price. Slight spine tilt, faint cover creases, former owner name and 1965 date inside, a VG to VG+ copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. First impression of the Lamplighter Edition - reissued in 1991 with a new seven-page foreword by the author. The book was originally published by William Heinemann, Ltd. in 1968. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine and a lamplighter design to the front board. Boards clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. No reading creases to the spine. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tightly bound. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine printed dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £14.99 net. Extremities of dustwrapper just very slightly rubbed. No creases or tears - just slight creasing at the top of the back foldover flap. Dustwrapper bright. ***508 pages. 242mm x 162mm. ***'"A Small Town in Germany" can be read as a political ghost story, a story in which the past is haunting the present. For in Adenauer's West Germany old Nazis still abound at every level of public life, their records allowed to gather dust in forgotten cabinets by the tacit agreement of NATO partners determined to put the past behind them. The ghost in the case is the former refugee Leo Harting, a junior something and general fixer at the British Embassy, who has disappeared with forty-three files, all Confidential or above. His exorcist is Alan Turner, the driven, unhappy investigator sent out from London to find the man and the files before the Germans do. The result is a bleak but faithful sidelight on the balance of power in the early 1960s, when John le Carré was himself a Second Secretary in Bonn. It is also a compelling and tense piece of storytelling.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'"A Small Town in Germany" is set in Bonn, the "small town" of the title, against a background of concern that former Nazis were returning to positions of power in West Germany. It is notable for being le Carré's first novel not to feature his recurring protagonist George Smiley or "The Circus," le Carré's fictionalised version of MI6. The novel is set in the late 1960s, in Bonn, the capital of West Germany. Great Britain is hoping to gain support from the West German government in a bid to enter the European Common Market. From London, Alan Turner, an official from the British Foreign Office, arrives to investigate the disappearance of Leo Harting, a minor British Embassy officer; moreover, secret files have disappeared with him. The embassy's head of Chancery, Rawley Bradfield, is hostile to Turner's investigation. Despite that, he is dinner party host to Turner and Ludwig Siebkron, head of the German Interior Ministry; the latter is close to industrialist Klaus Karfeld, who is successfully building a new nationalist political movement which is anti-British and anti-Western European, and which seeks to turn West Germany away from Western Europe and bring it closer to Communist Eastern Europe. Great Britain's diplomatic mission perceives growing support for Karfeld's movement as a threat to obtaining support for Britain's entry into the Common Market.' (Wiki) ***First impression of the Lamplighter Edition, in the original dustwrapper, in bright crisp condition. This Lamplighter Edition in hardcover is surprisingly uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

[Intrigue] FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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. No inscriptions, contents clean, jacket lightly handled; near fine. A theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947, in the newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in the riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's uni-polar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.

[Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] 264 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to the spine, and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Light general wear to jacket, with a split to head of upper joint. Very good. A Secret Service novel following Peter Guillam, once the right-hand man of George Smiley, who is summoned out of his retirement back to 'The Circus'.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 215; [5]. Publisher's green cloth, titles in white to spine, decorative endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Superfantastic, with printed price of £20.00 to front flap. A fine, as new copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover, dust jacket in mylar, Book Club edition. We ship fast.

[Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 339 [6]. With a map of Africa at rear. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, russett-coloured endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £17.99. A near fine, unread copy, showing some light wear to the jacket. A naive young interpreter stumbles into the heart of an outrageous British plot in this astonishing novel by the master of the literary thriller. Author John Le Carre was a recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger, recognising a lifetime contribution to crime writing in the English language.

[Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 281 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the red dust-jacket priced at £20. A fine, as-new copy. A contemporary spy thriller blending Brexit and Trump angst with the ongoing threat from Russia, and racket sports.

[Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] 264 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to the spine, and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at £20.00. A clean copy showing some light wear to extremities. Near fine. A Secret Service novel following Peter Guillam, once the right-hand man of George Smiley, who is summoned out of his retirement back to 'The Circus'.

[Legal thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.336. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of £16.99. Lightly handled; near fine. Following his Cold War espionage novels, John Le Carré now switches to the post-Soviet Union environment without missing a beat, and in the slick, action-packed 'Single and Single' we have an intriguing delve into the apparently legitimate banking of the West and its ties to the criminal elements of the former Soviet bloc.

[Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17 cm). Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. A fine copy in like jacket. Basis for the acclaimed 2014 movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams.

[Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.508. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with bronze titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. Lightly aged to extremities, price-clipped; near fine. Le Carre's acclaimed novel was filmed in 2005 and stars Ralph Fiennes as Kenya-based English diplomat Justin Quayle, whose wife is murdered, along with a man she's suspected of having an affair with, a local human rights activist. When Quayle starts investigating the killings, he discovers a connection between local politicians and a large Western pharmaceutical conglomerate.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 12 December 2020) , better known by his pen name John le Carré (/l? 'kære? /) , [1] was a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His third novel, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963) , became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. " (from Wikipedia).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SC - Red wraps with blacking titling and lettering to cover/spine; spine sun faded 1/2 of the upper half. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING limited to 350,000 copies. Uncorrected Proff as stated on cover wrap. Copyright 1995 by David Cornwell. Clean copy; yet partial name sticker remainder page 29 at top-edge of prev. owner; otherwise, clean bright, unmarked pages. 8vo. 302pp. --B.R. Box 85.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, with '001' on the printer's page. This is the 'exclusive signed edition' - signed by John le Carré on a special tipped in page inserted before the half-title. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with metallic-copper titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Top and tail of spine very slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions, other than the author's signature. No creases or tears. Pages clean and bright. Dark-red endpapers. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £20.00. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased. There is a small indentation on the front panel near the spine. No tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***310 pages including two pages of Sources at the back of the book. 242mm x 160mm. ***'""Out of the secret world I once knew I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for the reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now." ***From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion, to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of this special signed first edition, in the original dustwrapper, in bright crisp collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed by Author(s).

[Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8] 430 [10]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge tinted brown. With the bronze typographic dust-jacket, priced at £8.95. A black ink ownership to front pastedown, and some minor thumb marks to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. Jacket sunned to spine. Very good. Mossad agents recruit a young British actress to infiltrate a notorious Palestinian bomb-maker's family. Adapted in 2018 as a TV series by the BBC, staring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon, Florence Pugh, and Charles Dance.

[Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 246. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the yellow and orange dust-jacket. Light spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Price-clipped jacket sunned to spine as usual. Very good. Follow-up to the Edgar-winning novel 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' and basis for the 1970 spy thriller starring Ralph Richardson, Christopher Jones and Anthony Hopkins.

[Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 335 [9]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the blue, yellow and red dust-jacket. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. An espionage novel with George Smiley in a supporting role.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.410; [6]. Publisher's grey quarter cloth over purple cloth board, gilt titles to spine, pictorial endpapers. Dust-jacket with printed price of £16.99. Internaly fine. Wrapper lightly handled with a few tiny closed tears to top edge. Near fine.