THE TAILOR OF PANAMA

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's blue and grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Silver satin ribbon bookmark. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the 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 on the title page. Inspired by Graham Greene's 'Our Man in Havana' (1958), Le Carré's 'The Tailor of Panama' is the author's sixteenth novel and was the basis for the 2001 John Boorman directed film starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis. While generally well-received, Le Carré was criticised by some American reviewers for his portrayal of one of the novel's characters, a Jewish man, as a Judas figure. This prompted the author to write a public letter of complaint to The Guardian newspaper, which was responded to, disparagingly, by famed author Salman Rushdie, sparking a public literary feud that span decades, ending in 2012.