Le Carre John Pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (61 results)

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.[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.

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.

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: 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.

[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'.

[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 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.

[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: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. Full dark orange leather binding; vibrant gilt stamping to both boards and spine with latter additionally decorated with three raised bands; minor surface scuff at front board's upper right; slight bumping to boards' fore-edge corners. All edges gilt. Sewn-in dark orange silk ribbon page marker. Dark orange silk moire endpapers. Past owner's personal bookplate with different owner's ink signature affixed to second front flyleaf; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.25 pounds (1.47 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

[Suspense] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.416. Publisher's black cloth blocked in gilt, grey endpapers, top edge tinted red, dust-jacket designed Tony Geddes. Light general handling, top edge dusty. Near fine in similar price-clipped jacket. The semi-autobiographical story of a man's post-marital existential crisis. This, Le Carré's sixth novel, was published the same year as his divorce.

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, red endpapers, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with some light spotting at the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean and bright and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£9.95 net to the front flap). The author's first post-Cold War novel, 'The Night Manager' was adapted in 2016 for a six-episode BBC television series directed by Susanne Bier and starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED 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. Signed by the author to the title page. Lightly handled with the spine ends a little pushed. Near fine. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.443; [5]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers. Dust-jacket with printed price of £15.99. Internally fine, edges marginally tone. Cloth lightly handled with a small white mark to foot of upper board. Wrapper shows very well, lightly handled with a small scuff to front fold but bright and unfaded. Near fine. Later televised starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.

[Legal thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.336. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth, with gilt titles to spine and yellow endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. A crisp, clean copy showing just a few minor bumps and marks. 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.

Franklin Library first edition (preceding the trade edition issued by Alfred A. Knopf). Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 16.25cm. Full blue leather binding; vibrant gilt stamping to both boards and spine with latter additionally decorated with three raised bands; faint spotting at top of front board. All edges gilt. Sewn-in dark blue silk ribbon page marker. Dark blue silk more endpapers. Past owner's personal bookplate on initial text leaf immediately following the ffly; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. TV TIE-IN PROMOTIONAL PACK. Quarto (32 x 22cm). Card folder featuring the cover design from the paperback containing; a letter from Dennis le Baigue outlining the sales strategy for the book, a reproduction of an article about the series from the Sunday Times Colour supplement, an order form, and the BBC Enterprises brochure for the series. Staples of the BBC brochure rusted. Lightly handled. Fine. A sales pack to drum up trade orders for a rebranded paperback edition of A Perfect Spy to tie-in with the seven part BBC TV series starring Peter Egan, Jane Booker & Ray McAnally.

[Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.443 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the red and blue dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. A bright, crisp copy, showing a very light splash mark to fore-edge, and some light wear to jacket. Near fine. Basis for the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning 2016 TV series starring Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman, and Hugh Laurie.