May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 1,235
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LE CARRÉ, JOHN. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered pale blue cloth, spine lightly faded, trivial stain on rear board; dust jacket, unclipped, small chip to spine panel head not affection letters, faint fingersoiling, small rectangular tape ghost on verso likely from protective mylar; ex-collection Adrian Goldstone with his bookplate. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963

Additional Details

first edition of le carré's third book. The Edgar Award winner for 1965 and basis for the film of the same year directed by Martin Ritt, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.