Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The Reprint Society, London, England, 1964.
Price: US$52.78 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book originally published by Victor Gollancz Limited in 1963. This edition published by arrangement. Red spine with bright gilt text bind black paper covered boards, top edge dyed black. Top edge has initials D. W. T neatly burned into the top edge. Ow as new. 260 pp. Unclipped DJ has slight edge wear at spine ends. Bookseller's Inventory # 165461.
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz, London, 1964.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ninth impression (February 1964). 8vo. Pp 222. Original cloth, lettered gilt to spine. Light wear and fading to edges. Three ink marks to fore-edge. The unclipped d/w has some small tears, with slight loss to the top of the spine. Spine faded and panels lightly soiled, which shows up mostly on the white rear panel. Two of the ink marks to the fore-edge have continued onto the d/w. No inscriptions.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1964.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Eleventh impression. 8vo. Pp 222. Original cloth, slope to spine. Unclipped d/w, spine faded, hinges creased, wear to extremities.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Carre, John Le. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1964.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue boards. Very good condition. Eighteenth Impression. Tape residue to the front and back ffep. Slight nick to the top of the last three pages. Glue residue along the back where the ffep is glued to the board. Jacket in very good condition. unclipped. Minimal fraying to the head of the spinal jacket.
Seller: Bridgeburg Books, Fort Erie, ON, Canada
Price: US$71.82 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a poor if somewhat edge-torn (with loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 222 pages. Subjects: Smiley, George (Fictitious character); Fiction. Intelligence officers England; Fiction. Thriller; Suspense fiction. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
LE CARRE', JOHN. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Gollancz, London, 1964.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 15th impression in May 1964, Very Good condition hardcover in red/white dustjacket CIA
Seller: Karl Books, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Victor Gollancz, London, 1964.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: UK edition. “8th Impression, February 1964” to the copyright page. Very gently read, text block is solid. Previous owners neat ink signature and date to the ffep with a very small bookseller sticker to the verso of the front board. Otherwise the interior is clean and unmarked excepting the odd finger smudge. Blue cloth boards are clean with bright gilt titles to spine. Corners are sharp and square. 1cm strip at the head of the spine is sunned. Unclipped dustjacket, with 18/- price to the bottom edge of the front flap, has a few tiny chips to the bottom edges of both flaps. Head of the spine is creases and rubbed with a 1cm tear at each flap edge, title is affected but legible, foot is bumped and rubbed. Light to moderate soiling to show. Now protected in archival brodart jacket. One the seminal cold war spy novels of the 20th century from the late master, John Le Carre.
Seller: Bailey Books, St.Albert, AB, Canada
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a poor if somewhat edge-torn (with loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 222 pages. Subjects: Smiley, George (Fictitious character); Fiction. Intelligence officers England; Fiction. Thriller; Suspense fiction. Genre: Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz, London, 1964.
Price: US$99.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first edition mystery, 12th impression (February 1964), classic cold war spy thriller by John Le Carre, light blue boards, original dustjacket in red with a blurb by J. B. Priestley, very good condition, pages tanned, spine slightly cocked, title printed in pencil on an endpaper, very good dustjacket, with some edgewear and rubbing, 1" tear on bottom mended with archival tape, in protective mylar cover, not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-libris
Seller: Marnie Taylor Books & Antiques, NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, ON, Canada
Le Carre, John (1931-2020). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Gollancz, London, 1964.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in medium blue paper over boards, gilt lettering on spine. The dust jacket is price-clipped, spine panel is only sightly faded, there is trace edge wear, especially at ends of spine panel, and a couple of soft creases to rear panel. Le Carre's third and perhaps best known novel catulpulting him to espionage literary stardom. Basis of moive starring Richard Burton. 222 pages.
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Victor Gollancz. London. 1964. First edition, sixteenth impression June 1964, stated. Original DJ matches the first printing DJ with 18/- net price on flap. Blue cloth is bright and clean, minimal faint soiling near edge. Pages and endpapers are clean. Slightest, slightest lean, barely. DJ shows light chipping, rubbing and soiling. VG/VG
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1964.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1964. The most iconic novel of the Cold War and for most the introduction to the [fictional?] world of British espionage.This is a Fine copy of a Later printing (the 20th) of the First Edition, from exactly one year later than the first issue. Sky blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 222 pages. The dustwrapper is Very Good (Plus). Unclipped, but with light fading; wear at the head and foot of the spine and a small closed tear. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition 18th impression stated of a fine hardcover in a very good dustjacket with one small closed tear, and a small scrap both on the front cover and soiling on the back cover. The 3rd novel in the George Smiley spy/adventure series, an intelligence officer with the British Overseas Intelligence Agency. Winner of the 1963 Gold Dagger Award and the 1965 Edgar Award for best mystery. The basis for the 1965 film of the same name starring Richard Burton, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and won many other awards.
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Price: US$316.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition / Eleventh Print (first published in 1963). Hardback copy in light blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket (18/-net) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 222pp. Signed by author in black ink to bookplate pasted to half title page. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some wear to dustjacket edges, with foxing to rear cover. (36/3)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
John Le Carre. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London UK, 1964.
Price: US$367.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold signed by the author on the half title page. With unclipped dust jacket. Original light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Light fading and wear on the edges. Clean end papers and contents. Ex Libris sticker with signature of the author. The dust jacket with wear and loss to the edges and spine ends. Lightly browned and rubbed dust jacket with faded spine.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Dust jacket is not price clipped (retaining publisher's printed price of 18/-), and has minor tanning in bands on the rear panel. After the resounding success of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold", this omnibus edition collects Le Carre's first two novels. 288 pages. A very nice copy.
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
Price: US$508.86 + shipping
Description: (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1964). First UK Edition. Publisher's red boards with gilt spine lettering. A fine bright copy in a near fine price-clipped D/W. The D/W does not have the "X 25" to the rear panel although is, otherwise, identical to the first impression D/W in every respect. The D/W has NO TONING, NO STAINING and NO DARKENING and is a SUPERIOR EXAMPLE of a FRAGILE DUST WRAPPER and needless to say, NO RESTORATION. A very nice copy indeed. This is the Author's fourth book which is a re-issue of his first two books neither of which had sold particularly well in their original first editions. With the success of "The Spy who Came in from the Cold" the publisher (Gollancz) wanted to capitalise on the huge success and issued this Omnibus edition. Nothing like as scarce as "Call for the Dead" or "A Murder of Quality" but still an uncommon book. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$607.69 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Red boards with gilt spine lettering. Binding is firm and square. Inside clean, no foxing, marks or inscriptions. In the original, first issue, unclipped dust jacket priced 18/-, and X25 on rear panel. Dust jacket with light toning, neatly repaired tear to back panel, 2 small closed tears to rear side and slightest wear to extremities. 288 pp., 19 x 12,5 cm. Dust jacket now in removable protective sleeve. Fine book in very good/near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Concept Books, Veldhoven, Netherlands
Le Carre, John. Le Carre Omnibus. London Gollancz 1964, 1964.
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Gollancz in 1964. A very good+ book, internally fine without inscriptions - fading to the book spine and one small stain to the spine. In a near fine supplied neatly clipped wrapper in lovely condition - no digit to the rear panel. Incorporating 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold', 'Call For The Dead' and 'Murder of Quality'.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
John Le Carré. Le Carré Omnibus. Victor Gollancz, 1964.
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: LE CARRÉ, John. The Le Carré Omnibus. London, Victor Gollancz, 1964. First joint edition of Le Carrés first two novels, Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, in the original bright dust jacket. Following the success of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), two of Le Carrés earlier novels were re-released together for the first time in The Le Carré Omnibus. Originally published in 1961, Call for the Dead is the authors debut novel; it introduces his recurring character George Smiley and the Circus, a fictional version of British Intelligence based on MI6. A Murder of Quality, Le Carrés second novel from 1962, continues Smileys story and is his only book set outside the espionage community. Octavo, pp. 288; near fine; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, near fine yellow dust jacket printed in black and red (dust jacket slightly creased and stained, trace of sticker to spine).
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in blue boards with gold, gilt lettering on the spine ( bumping to lower back board tip and slight cocking) in an unclipped (showing a price of 18/), very good dust jacket with fading to spine, minor chipping to bottom of the spine and minor edge wear . SIGNED - NOT INSCRIBED - ON A BOOKPLATE AFFIXED TO THE TITLE PAGE. This is a first British Edition, twelfth printing (February, 1964). This is a tight, clean copy with no markings of any kind.A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS RARE TITLE. PROVENANCE CONSISTS OF PHOTOCOPIES OF TWO LETTERS FROM MR. LE CARRE'S ASSISTANT.
Seller: Arthur Harry Fine Books, MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada
John Le Carre. The Spy who came in from the Cold - WITH WRAP AROUND BAND. Gollancz, London, 1964.
Price: US$1223.85 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: HARDBACK - TWELFTH IMPRESSION - A near fine or better book, bound in the publisher's blue cloth boards. There is the merest hint of fading to the spine tips, but barely noticeable. Internally, the pages are lightly toned, but less than what is normally encountered, free of any owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also in near fine condition with some light fading to the spine, but overall, a very clean wrapper with no chips or tears present, and with the original scarce wrap around band present. A very nice, collectable example.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy in blue boards with gold, gilt lettering on the spine in an unclipped (showing a price of 18/), bright near fine dust jacket with no fading to spine, minor chipping to bottom of the spine and minor edge wear . SIGNED - NOT INSCRIBED - BY JOHN LE CARRE ON THE TITLE PAGE. This is a first British Edition, tenth printing (February, 1964). This is a tight, clean copy with no markings of any kind.A VERY ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS RARE TITLE. Provenance consists of an exchange of original correspondence from Mr. Le Carre's assistant (TWO LETTERS) ALSO INCLUDED IS AN ORIGINAL HAND WRITTEN NOTE TO MYSELF DATED JUNE 3,2013 (AND ENVELOPE) FROM MR. LE CARRE TO MYSELF CONCERNING OUR CORRESPONDENCE. PARTING WITH THESE FROM MY COLLECTION DUE TO MY OWN HEALTH.
Seller: Arthur Harry Fine Books, MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada