CALL FOR THE DEAD (Signet D2495) by John Le Carre - 1964

New York, NY: Signet/New American Library, 1964. TextBRAND NEW w/trace margin discoloration. Softcover/VG; sound w/faint creasings to surface, discoloration, and soiling to back. Text edges dyed red. First novel (1961) from British author David John Moore Cornwell (1931 -), pen name John le Carré. Novel itroduces George Smiley --- beginning with Smiley's earlier career (and his marriage to, and separation from, the beautiful Lady Ann Sercombe), his recruitment by a lecturer at Oxford and his work in locating promising young Germans with "agent potential" for recruitment by the British service prior to World War II. Novel is sets the scebe for The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963), the success of which led Le Carre to leave the British Intelligence and become a full-time author. Call of the Dead was both adapted to BBC radio and film (1966,) under the title: The Deadly Affair. . First Edition, 4th Printing of 1964. Soft Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Vintage/Espionage/Fiction.