pseudonym moore cornwell david john (37 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SC - Red wraps with blacking titling and lettering to cover/spine; spine sun faded 1/2 of the upper half. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING limited to 350,000 copies. Uncorrected Proff as stated on cover wrap. Copyright 1995 by David Cornwell. Clean copy; yet partial name sticker remainder page 29 at top-edge of prev. owner; otherwise, clean bright, unmarked pages. 8vo. 302pp. --B.R. Box 85.

[Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17 cm). Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. Read once. Near fine in like wrapper. Basis for the acclaimed 2014 movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams.

[Intrigue] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, purple endpapers, purple dust-wrapper with red and white titles, priced at £18.99. No inscriptions, contents clean, jacket lightly handled; near fine. A theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947, in the newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in the riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's uni-polar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.

[Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] 264 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to the spine, and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Light general wear to jacket, with a split to head of upper joint. Very good. A Secret Service novel following Peter Guillam, once the right-hand man of George Smiley, who is summoned out of his retirement back to 'The Circus'.

[Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 281 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the red dust-jacket priced at £20. A fine, as-new copy. A contemporary spy thriller blending Brexit and Trump angst with the ongoing threat from Russia, and racket sports.

[Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] 264 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to the spine, and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at £20.00. A clean copy showing some light wear to extremities. Near fine. A Secret Service novel following Peter Guillam, once the right-hand man of George Smiley, who is summoned out of his retirement back to 'The Circus'.

[Legal thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.336. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of £16.99. Lightly handled; near fine. Following his Cold War espionage novels, John Le Carré now switches to the post-Soviet Union environment without missing a beat, and in the slick, action-packed 'Single and Single' we have an intriguing delve into the apparently legitimate banking of the West and its ties to the criminal elements of the former Soviet bloc.

[Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17 cm). Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. A fine copy in like jacket. Basis for the acclaimed 2014 movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams.

[Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.508. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with bronze titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. Lightly aged to extremities, price-clipped; near fine. Le Carre's acclaimed novel was filmed in 2005 and stars Ralph Fiennes as Kenya-based English diplomat Justin Quayle, whose wife is murdered, along with a man she's suspected of having an affair with, a local human rights activist. When Quayle starts investigating the killings, he discovers a connection between local politicians and a large Western pharmaceutical conglomerate.

[Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8] 430 [10]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge tinted brown. With the bronze typographic dust-jacket, priced at £8.95. A black ink ownership to front pastedown, and some minor thumb marks to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. Jacket sunned to spine. Very good. Mossad agents recruit a young British actress to infiltrate a notorious Palestinian bomb-maker's family. Adapted in 2018 as a TV series by the BBC, staring Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Shannon, Florence Pugh, and Charles Dance.

[Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 246. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the yellow and orange dust-jacket. Light spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Price-clipped jacket sunned to spine as usual. Very good. Follow-up to the Edgar-winning novel 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' and basis for the 1970 spy thriller starring Ralph Richardson, Christopher Jones and Anthony Hopkins.

[Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 335 [9]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the blue, yellow and red dust-jacket. Jacket price-clipped, otherwise a crisp, near fine copy. An espionage novel with George Smiley in a supporting role.

[Suspense] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.416. Publisher's black cloth blocked in gilt, grey endpapers, top edge tinted red, dust-jacket designed Tony Geddes. Light general handling, top edge dusty. Near fine in similar price-clipped jacket. The semi-autobiographical story of a man's post-marital existential crisis. This, Le Carré's sixth novel, was published the same year as his divorce.

[Legal thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.336. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's burgundy cloth, with gilt titles to spine and yellow endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. A crisp, clean copy showing just a few minor bumps and marks. Near fine. Following his Cold War espionage novels, John Le Carré now switches to the post-Soviet Union environment without missing a beat, and in the slick, action-packed 'Single and Single' we have an intriguing delve into the apparently legitimate banking of the West and its ties to the criminal elements of the former Soviet bloc.

Uncorrected proof copy of the first Canadian edition, first printing. Publisher's original spiral bound white card covers, printed in black. Quarto. 335pp. A near fine copy, the upper cover toned at the edges and with a light crease to the top right corner. The pages are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Scarce in this format. The basis for the 2001 John Boorman directed film starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink directly to publisher's tipped-in leaf preceding half title. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the red dust-jacket priced at £20. Orange 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover. Light general wear. Near fine. A contemporary spy thriller blending Brexit and Trump angst with the ongoing threat from Russia, and racket sports.

[Intrigue] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.383; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, and purple endpapers. With the purple dust-jacket designed by gray318, priced at £18.99. A fine, as-new copy, carefully dark-stored by ourselves since publication. A theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of the time of nine/eleven and the Iraq War. The friends are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947, in the newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in the riot-torn West Berlin of the late sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in the modern world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies.

Uncorrected proof copy of the first US edition, first printing. Publisher's in house laser printed copy of the 3rd Draft typescript. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Scarce thus. The basis for the 2005 Fernando Meirelles directed film starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. A fine clean, square and tight copy, without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. With the additional stapled booklet laid in, as issued. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Signed by John Le Carré in black ink on the title page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Spy thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 335 [9]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and blue endpapers. With the blue, yellow and red dust-jacket, priced at £14.95. A crisp, fine copy. An espionage novel with George Smiley in a supporting role.

[Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink directly to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the red dust-jacket priced at £20. A fine, as-new copy. A contemporary spy thriller blending Brexit and Trump angst with the ongoing threat from Russia, and racket sports.

[Crime/espionage] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.410 [2]. Pictorial endpapers. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's grey quarter cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with purple cloth over boards, pictorial dust-jacket with back cover portrait of Le Carré taken by The Douglas Brothers, priced at £16.99. Minor edge wear, a little pushed at extremities. Near fine. Harry Pendel is the best known tailor in Panama and is hired by all the top brass, but his past is a well hidden secret - until the British secret agent Andrew Osnard turns up. Basis for John Boorman's 2001 film, with 'James Bond' star Pierce Brosnan as Osnard, Geoffrey Rush as Pendel, Jamie Lee Curtis as his wife Louisa and, in an early appearance, 'Harry Potter' actor Daniel Radcliffe as their son Mark.

[Spy Novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.306 [6]. Publisher's hardback black cloth binding lettered in gilt, red endpapers, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £18.99 to front flap, publisher's 'signed' label to upper. Carefully read, jacket shows some light handling and use, some wear to crown. A Secret Service novel from the master of the spy story. From the comprehensive espionage book collection of Jon Gilbert, bibliographer of Le Carre's fellow spy writer Ian Fleming (pencilled ownership signature to first leaf).

Uncorrected proof copy of the first Canadian edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original spiral bound bright green card covers, printed in black. Quarto. 342pp. A near fine copy showing only light wear to the extremities. The printed anticipated publication date to the upper cover has been altered in manuscript from February to March. Rare in this form, exceptionally so in presentation state. Inscribed by the author in black ink on the title page "John Le Carré / aka / David / for / the one + only (alas) / Greg, with much affection / 25 iii '99 / Toronto". The recipient is poet, author and founder of the Harbourfront International Festival of Authors Greg Gatenby. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Re-issue of the author's first novel. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a little bumping at the extremities. The contents with the ownership signature and date of poet, author and founder of Toronto's Harbourfront Author Festival Greg Gatenby to the front endpaper, are clean and bright throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper. Not price-clipped ($9.95 to the front flap). Scarce in signed state. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "John Le Carré / for / Greg - / 24.X.'96 / Toronto". The author's first novel, introducing George Smiley. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

[Spy Novel] DELUXE SIGNED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.306 [6]. Publisher's black cloth binding lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, yellow headbands with yellow silk ribbon marker, white endpapers, black cloth-covered slipcase blocked in gilt to upper. Signed by the author to title page. A fine copy in the publisher's slipcase. A Secret Service novel from the master of the spy story.

[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.'.

[Spy Thriller] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 246. Elegantly hand-bound in half red morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, with matching cloth over boards and top edge gilt. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Follow-up to the Edgar-winning novel 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' and basis for the 1970 spy thriller starring Ralph Richardson, Christopher Jones and Anthony Hopkins.

First edition, first printing. Signed limited edition. Publisher's original grey cloth, with gilt titling to the spine and gilt monogram to the upper board, in grey cloth slipcase. A fine as new copy, still in shrink-wrap, with no fading or rubbing to the cloth. Signed by the John le Carre on the title page, in an edition of 250. John Le Carré's twenty-fourth novel. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

A brown rexine bound photo-album containing 21 large black and white original photographs, shot on location during the making of the 1984 George Hill directed film of John Le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl. The film title is stamped in gilt to the upper cover. All photographs have tissue guards and are mounted on cream card. In fine condition. Inscribed by the Academy Award winning director in black ink on the front pastedown to one of the stars of the film "To Thorley / with appreciation / and best wishes / George Hill". A rare item of movie memorabilia, of which only a handful will have been produced. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.