Language: English
Published by London: Penguin # 13846 1st Printing, 1990
ISBN 10: 0140138463 ISBN 13: 9780140138467
Seller: John McCormick, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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.
Published by Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977., 1977
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
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.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf (New York), 1995
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979., 1979
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019
Seller: Benedict Wilson Books, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 15
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. 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.
Published by London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008
Seller: Benedict Wilson Books, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 15
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. 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.
Published by London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996
Seller: Benedict Wilson Books, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 18.75
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFIRST 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. Internally fine, edges toned with some very light spotting. Wrapper lightly handled. Near fine.
Published by London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2021
Seller: Benedict Wilson Books, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 26.25
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. 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.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008, 2008
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17 cm). Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Read once. Near fine in like wrapper. Basis for the acclaimed 2014 movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004, 2004
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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.
Published by London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017, 2017
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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'.
Published by London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019, 2019
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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.
Published by London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017, 2017
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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'.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999, 1999
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008, 2008
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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.
Published by London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993
Seller: Benedict Wilson Books, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 48.75
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. 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.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2001, 2001
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983, 1983
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991, 1991
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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.
Published by London: Coronet, 1987
Seller: Benedict Wilson Books, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 56.25
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSoft 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.
Published by London: The Reprint Society / World Books, 1964, 1964
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. [Spy Thriller] first UK book club edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.240. Publisher's red quarter paper with gilt titles to spine and black paper over boards. Top edge black. With the red dust-jacket, illustrated with Berlin Wall design. Some light spotting to edges, minor wear to jacket. Near fine. A monumental novel, The Spy Who Came In From is a revolutionary Cold War-era espionage classic, the first to win both the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger and the Mystery Writers of America award, and also listed in the top 200 literary works since 1950. The author's breakthrough, which firmly established an alternative form to the James Bond cult and a new type of hero. Graham Greene considered it the best spy story he ever read and J.B. Priestley wrote that the book was 'superbly constructed with an atmosphere of chilly hell.'.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton., 2006
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£17.99 to the front flap). Signed by John Le Carré in black ink on the title page. The author's twentieth novel, 'The Mission Song' is a thrilling tale of espionage set in the East Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999, 1999
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [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. Signed.
Published by London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2010, 2010
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Spy Novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.306 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's hardback black cloth binding lettered in gilt, red endpapers. With the dust-jacket priced at £18.99 to front flap; publisher's 'signed' label to upper. Carefully read, jacket shows some light handling and use, some wear to crown. Very good. A Secret Service novel from the master of the spy story. From the comprehensive espionage book collection of Jon Gilbert, bibliographer of Le Carre's fellow spy writer Ian Fleming (pencilled ownership signature to first leaf). Signed.
Published by London: Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017, 2017
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. 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, and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket price at £20.00. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover, and a touch of light general wear to jacket. 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'. Signed.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971, 1971
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.416. Publisher's black cloth blocked in gilt, grey endpapers, top edge tinted red, dust-jacket designed Tony Geddes, printed price of £2.25 to front flap. Contents and edges clean, owner name to endpaper, jacket is near fine, with original price (£2.25) intact [often clipped]. Scarce thus. This acclaimed novel follows Aldo Cassidy (the naive and sentimental lover), a successful, judicious man, wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
Published by Canada: Viking / Penguin Books., 1996
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
Uncorrected proof copy of the first Canadian edition, first printing. Publisher's original spiral bound white card covers, printed in black. Quarto. 335pp. A near fine copy, the upper cover toned at the edges and with a light crease to the top right corner. The pages are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Scarce in this format. The basis for the 2001 John Boorman directed film starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019, 2019
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink directly to publisher's tipped-in leaf preceding half title. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the red dust-jacket priced at £20. Orange 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover. Light general wear. Near fine. A contemporary spy thriller blending Brexit and Trump angst with the ongoing threat from Russia, and racket sports. Signed.
Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004, 2004
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, and purple endpapers. With the purple dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £18.99. A fine, as-new copy, carefully dark-stored by ourselves since publication. A theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of the time of nine/eleven and the Iraq War. 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 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 the modern world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Signed.
Published by London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2010, 2010
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Signed
[Spy Novel] DELUXE SIGNED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.306 [6]. Publisher's black cloth binding lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, yellow headbands with yellow silk ribbon marker, white endpapers, black cloth-covered slipcase blocked in gilt to upper. Signed by the author to title page. A fine copy in the publisher's slipcase. A Secret Service novel from the master of the spy story. Signed.