James Bond First Editions

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

LE CARRÉ, John [pseudonym of CORNWELL, David John Moore] (born 1931).

New York: Coward-McCann, 1964. [Espionage thriller] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's red linen spine over grey-brown paper covered boards, light green endpapers, top edge ochre, in pictorial first state dust-wrapper, featuring three blurbs on the back panel. Printed price $4.50. Contents clean, no inscriptions, lightly handled. A near fine copy in similar jacket with a tear and a few rubs to foot of spine. A monumental novel, 'The Spy Who Came In From the Cold' 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. It was also the author's breakthrough novel, which firmly established an alternative form to the James Bond cult, and a new type of spy-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.'. Item #70499

Price: £275.00