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London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. [Espionage thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red, white and black typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s. Gently toned throughout, with quite heavily toned edges, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Jacket shows moderate even spotting all over, with some light sunning and a few small chips to spine. Very good. A monumental novel, 'The Spy Who Came In From the Cold' (1963) 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…

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, tasked with one last assignment to prove a Western intelligence asset in East Germany.