THE CONSTANT GARDENER

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with bronze titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Navy blue satin bookmark. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight, with a touch of rubbing to the tail of the spine, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper, that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£16.99 to the lower front flap).

Signed by John Le Carré in black ink to the title page. The author's eighteenth novel, based on the case of a meningitis antibiotic clinical trial conducted by pharmaceutical company Pfizer in 1996 in Kano, Nigeria, which was ultimately declared an 'illegal trial of an unregistered drug' on human participants by the investigating panel (2006: Joe Stephens, Washington Post). The novel was the basis for the 2005 Fernando Meirelles directed film starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.