THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD.** by Le CARRE**, JOHN:

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,[50th Anniversary edn],1st edn thus.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Red,black and white colour designed dw/dj with immaculate fresh,bright front,rear panels and spine/backstrip.The rear panel with author's contemporary b/w portrait photograph within a wide white border. There are no nicks or tears to any of the dw/dj edges and just the merest hint of creasing to top of the spine/backstrip.Top+fore- edges bright and clean without marks or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight and clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain pale grey cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped red ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black,unblemished eps.An exceptional copy with an exceptional dw/dj.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,[50th Anniversary Edn],1st edn thus,1-208pp [paginated] includes 26 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and to the rear,17pp contemporary b/w facsimile archived book's original publisher's material and documents/manuscripts; critics' reviews,and publisher adverts etc and contemporary b/w newspaper cuttings reproductions - some with b/w auto+ biographical photographs,a final section entitled '50 Years Later' of Le Carre writing and talking about the book,it's characters and it's rationale. On bibliophile.net,see my book ID rja1642 for a TRUE,original (of believed initial print run of only 5,200 copies),UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn of this same title. Fifty years on in (2013),Penguin Classics present the book anew, using a version of the original jacket published by Gollancz in 1963,including the copy written by Victor Gollancz himself.With added archival material from the time of its first publication and a new Afterword by the author,this edition reflects on a novel that for half a century has been read and celebrated as the ultimate 'Cold War' thriller and a compulsive work of art. When John le Carre's third novel,'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.',was published in 1963,it sparked an international furore and redefined the spy novel.To Graham Greene it was simply 'the best spy story I have ever read',and for J. B. Priestly it possessed 'an atmosphere of chilly hell'. Voted 'the greatest spy novel of all time'.Since first being published,12 September, 1963,'The Spy Who Came In From the Cold' has bowled over critics and readers alike with its unrivalled story-telling and fresh,morally ambiguous perspective onto the "practitioners" of the Cold War.Since then too,it has won a plethora of international accolades,reflecting its crucial role within our (UK) literary tradition and our social history.A British Crime Writers Association 1963 Gold Dagger Award winner,a 1965 Edgar Award winner,a "Dagger of Daggers" award winner,a one-time only award,commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Dagger Awards, 2005.A splendid copy of this Edgar Award-winning novel that was the basis for the Martin Ritt film featuring Richard Burton,as British secret agent Alec Leamas, Claire Bloom,and Oskar Werner. View my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue for other books and suggested reading in it.
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