The Night Manager.
“Promise to build a chap a house, he won't believe you. Threaten to burn his place down, he'll do what you tell him. Fact of life": First Edition of John Le Carre's The Night Manager; Inscribed by Him and signed again on the rear jacket flap and three times by Jacket designer Chip Kidd
The Night Manager.
LE CARRE, John.
$1,250.00
Item Number: 131389
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
First edition of le Carre’s first post-Cold War novel, detailing an undercover operation to bring down a major international arms dealer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Antonia Gale Moss from John le Carre Cornwall Feb 12 ’96.” Additionally signed by John le Carre on the rear dust jacket flap and three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the title page and again on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd and Carol Devine Carson. A unique example.
“A splendidly exciting, finely told story . . . masterly in its conception" (The New York Times Book Review). It was adapted to a six-part mini-series aired with the cast includeing Tom Hiddleston as Pine, Hugh Laurie as Roper, Olivia Colman as Burr, Tom Hollander as Corkoran, and Elizabeth Debicki as Jed.
