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Lot 375

CORNWELL, David (?John Le Carr??) (1931?2020). The Spy Who ...

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CORNWELL, David (?John Le Carr??) (1931?2020). The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth (renewed endpapers, some spotting to text block, also some light marginal browning to pp. 6?13); original unclipped dust jacket (small discrete paper repair to spine verso near head, some discrete restoration to extreme corners, else fine). Provenance: David and Patricia Cory (bookplate and booklabel), both English authors and bibliophiles whose collection sold en bloc in 2018 at Keys Auction. FIRST EDITION of the author?s third book and the first novel to win both the Gold Dagger Award and the Edgar Award.