If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. With Martin's business card (with his London address on Great Cumberland Place) laid in.īook with only very minor soiling to front free endpaper bright dust jacket with a bit of wear to corners, short scratch to spine. He photographed Le Carré at his home in St Buryan, Cornwall, where Le Carré inscribed this book. The recipient of this copy, Ben Martin, a photographer for Time magazine, is responsible for some of the most iconic images from the sixties in the U.S., including ones from JFK's funeral and Martin Luther King's March on Selma. The novel was made into a 2011 film starring Gary Oldman, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. The basis for the 1979 mini-series starring Alec Guinness (for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor he would reprise the role of George Smiley in the 1982 mini-series Smiley's People, based on the Le Carré novel of the same title, for which he also won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor).
"A stunning story of espionage… His people are full-bodied, believable individuals, the minor characters as vivid as the main cast" ( Wall Street Journal).
"Tinker, Tailor is as perfect a spy yarn as one is likely to find and a great novel on top of it" (Stephen L. Bunyan Penzance" and added a drawing to a stamped image of the body of a man in a coat, adding a head, a hat, a hand and a banner with the text "Read Le Carre He's Good." Octavo, original gilt-stamped black paper boards, original dust jacket.įirst edition of this classic spy thriller, inscribed on the title page to noted photographer Ben Martin, "For Ben with warmest wishes and pleasant memories of the Tregiffian visit-John Le Carré." On the page opposite the title, Le Carré has also inscribed and signed the book, this time with his real name: "David Cornwell St. "READ LE CARRE HE'S GOOD": FIRST EDITION OF TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, INSCRIBED BY LE CARRÉ WITH A HUMOROUS DRAWING AND SIGNED AS HIS PEN NAME JOHN LE CARRÉ AND AS DAVID CORNWELL, HIS REAL NAME
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