"A GENUINE MODERN VERSION OF TRAGEDY": FIRST EDITION OF THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
LE CARRE, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
First edition of Le Carré's classic spy novel, in bright original dust jacket.
"In a covert war later immortalized in John Le Carré's The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, [West and East German intelligence chiefs] conducted the battle of moles, infiltration, counter-infiltration, double agent and triple agent" (Volkman, Spies, 180). "In the tradition of Conrad, Maugham and Greene, John Le Carré's realist spy novel is a form which represents a genuine modern version of tragedy… The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is still Le Carré's cleanest job: compact in structure, deftly deceptive in the unfolding of its triple-cross, and painfully human in the characterizations of two victims of 'our' side's necessary but evil mission" (Reilly, 933-34). Owner signature.
Only tiny bit of edge-wear to price-clipped dust jacket, spine with almost none of the usual fading. A splendid copy in fine condition.