The Night Manager.

LE CARRE, John.

Item Number: 127253

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 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. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “(Dear Bill) The US edition is far prettier, but this one is at least here and ready to send! D) and for Bill Safire, a lion with the right roar, with admiration – David alias John le Carre 2 June 93.” The recipient, William Safire, was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Sally Soames.

“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.