Le Carré, John (1931-2020) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, first edition.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1963.
First edition, octavo; publisher's blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered; with the red Gollancz jacket (price clipped, slight sunning to jacket spine; minor foxing to final blank and foredge; cloth lightly soiled, spine sunned and a touch cocked); 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
This hard-edged thriller, the winner of both the Gold Dagger and the Mystery Writers of America awards, reveals duplicity and amorality rampant among government intelligence agents during the Cold War. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is a quintessential John le Carré espionage novel and was adapted into a successful film by Martin Ritt only two years after its publication.
