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202149082Viking 2021. 8vo. First Edition thus with 2 full-page photographs in the text and patterned endpapers; green cloth backstrip lettered in white a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The Waterstones edition of the author's final work includes Afterword by Niok Cornwell Nick Harkaway full page photograph of the author and full-page facsimile of a leaf of the manuscript. Viking, hardcover
201941613Viking 2019. 8vo. First Edition; black cloth backstrip lettered in bronze black endpapers a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Viking, hardcover
200647330Hodder & Stoughton 2006. 8vo. First Edition; black cloth backstrip lettered in silver terracotta endpapers black silk marker a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover
2016355490720417London 2016. London: The Guardian Weekend Supplement September 3 2016. A magazine. Superb front cover photograph of Le Carre at his desk. Takes the form of a 16-page Souvenir Pull-out including articles on: "How I Write" 2 pages; "My father: conman and inspiration" 2 pages "My father beat me up but only a few times and not with much conviction. When I was grown up he tried to sue me which I suppose is violence in disguise"; "A trip to Panama 2 pages; a 2-page picture of David Cornwell by the sea near his home in Cornwall "If I look over my life from here I see it as a succession of engagements and escapes and I thank goodness that the writing kept me relatively straight and largely sane". Lunches with the good and the great: "working with Sir Alec Guinness"; "meeting Margaret Thatcher"; Leading actors on Le Carre - Tom Hiddleston Elizabeth Debicki Rachel Weisz Damian Lewis David Harewood. A superb series of articles. Highly recommended. Photographs/scans available upon request. unknown
20086141<p>Hodder & Stoughton. London.2008. FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. SIGNED BY Le Carre on the title page. Fine unread copy in fine dustwrapper. Still with the removable bookshop "Signed First Edition" sticker on front panel.:</p> Hodder & Stoughton. London. 2008 hardcover
200132428New York: Scribner 2001. First American edition first printing. Large 8vo publisher's original white boards backed in blue cloth the spine lettered in silver in the original dustjacket. 492pp. Completely as mint a pristine copy. FIRST EDITION FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST ESPIONAGE WRITERS OF ALL TIME. Based on a real-life incident THE CONSTANT GARDENER tells the story of Justin Quayle a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. In seeking the reason behind her death he uncovers an international conspiracy involving corrupt bureaucracies and pharmaceutical money. The novel is the bases for the 2005 film of the same name starring starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.<br> "A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict John le Carré portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling complex story of a man elevated through tragedy as Justin Quayle--amateur gardener aging widower and ineffectual bureaucrat--discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love." -Publisher. Scribner hardcover
201042312Viking 2010. 8vo. Uncorrected US Proof Copy; original printed wrappers wrappers faintly age-soiled else a near fine copy. PROOF COPIES ARE SCARCE. Viking, unknown
2017355490722083London: Viking 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First edition first printing. EXCLUSIVE SIGNED EDITION. Publisher's black boards with silver lettering to the spine and red end-papers. A near fine copy a couple of foxing spots to the bottom edge in a fine dustwrapper of the first edition from the initial run that features the signed tipped-in page with the printed date of September 2017. The book appears to have been read once. Photographs/scans available upon request. Viking hardcover
202246732Folio Society 2022. 8vo. First Edition thus with illustrated title and 8 full-page coloured illustrations; black cloth blocked and lettered in silver and green black top green endpapers a fine copy in publisher's blocked and printed board slip-case. Folio Society, hardcover
200951762Folio Society 2009. 8vo. First Edition thus with frontispiece and 8 plates; grey cloth upper board blocked in red backstrip lettered in silver grey endpapers a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. First volume of the most influential spy trilogy of the twentieth century. Folio Society, hardcover
200846164Hodder & Stoughton 2008. 8vo. First Edition; black cloth backstrip lettered in silver red endpapers silk marker a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover
200947659Folio Society 2009-2010. 3 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with frontispieces and full-page illustrations in the text; pictorial grey cloth backstrips lettered in silver grey endpapers a fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. Splendid FS edition of the most influential spy trilogy of the twentieth century. Folio Society, hardcover
