tinker tailor soldier spy book first edition

He had gone into retirement once before, starring in two early novels ( Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality), then coming out and playing a key, but peripheral role in the next ( The Spy Who Came in From the Cold) and a small role, walking in at the end of The Looking Glass War to tidy things up. He is, according to some, designed to be the more accurate measure of a member of MI-6, the real kind of man who was fighting the Cold War, down in the trenches holding the line. Bond was athletic, quick-witted and, of course, a master with the opposite sex. The eighth Bond novel, Thunderball, had come out just before Call for the Dead, the first of Le Carré’s books and the one that would introduce his master character, George Smiley and the films would continue the legend of the glamorous spy beginning the next year. The Novel: By the time John Le Carré began his career as a novelist, the James Bond books were going strong. Last Line: “The gun, Bill Roach, had finally convinced himself, was after all a dream.”.First Line: “The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn’t dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood’s at all.”.Book weighs 0.7 kg., so with box may require extra postage for international shipment.The 1st Edition cover of the brilliant spy novel. They are distinguished by bound-in silk moire page marker. NOTE: Some copies are bound in full leather rather than leatherette. A beautiful collector's copy of a great George Smiley espionage novel. to spine, and all corners square and sharp, and a scratch across the back board. Binding is blue-green faux leather, with silver design to both front and back boards and silver title, etc. Text block is bright white, quite tight, crisp, straight and square, with no markings of any kind, other than a 1' scratch to the bottom edge. Three raised bands to spine and pages sewn not glued into binding.

Decorative endpapers echoing the cover in blue and black.

Special Edition (reprint from 1974 Knopf edition) in dark blue-green faux leather covers (termed leatherette by publisher), all edges in delicate silver, with silver cover design (to both covers and spine) by Jennifer Dossin and interior, blue-tinted art by Herbert Tauss.

The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, USA, 1988. The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces (illustrator).

Tinker tailor soldier spy book first edition