Animals and Ourselves.

(Le Carré.) KNIGHT (Maxwell)

Animals and Ourselves.

Illustrated by David Cornwell.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 6 monochrome photographic plates, with drawings to the text (headpieces and tail-pieces) by Cornwell, a few faint spots to prelims and occasionally encroaching onto page-edges within, pp. 96, crown 8vo, original quarter green cloth (leather-effect) and yellow boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly rubbed at tips, a few small spots to edges, dustjacket with gently sunned backstrip panel and a little rubbed at extremities, very good

Publication Details: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962

Notes: Signed by the illustrator on the title-page: 'David J.M. Cornwell, aka John le Carré, 5th Oct 2020'. An autograph note from the same is laid in, at the foot of the original typed letter to which it responds, informing his correspondent that Knight was 'really not M! - but he did list his agents as M numbers - e.g. M3, M6, M8 & so forth. And brought small animals into MI5! Best, JLC'. As this information would suggest, this early illustration-work, accompanied by a book on 'Talking Birds' with Knight in the same year, was not the first time Cornwell had worked with the author - they were earli...moreSigned by the illustrator on the title-page: 'David J.M. Cornwell, aka John le Carré, 5th Oct 2020'. An autograph note from the same is laid in, at the foot of the original typed letter to which it responds, informing his correspondent that Knight was 'really not M! - but he did list his agents as M numbers - e.g. M3, M6, M8 & so forth. And brought small animals into MI5! Best, JLC'. As this information would suggest, this early illustration-work, accompanied by a book on 'Talking Birds' with Knight in the same year, was not the first time Cornwell had worked with the author - they were earlier colleagues, Knight a mentor to the younger man, at MI5. HIDE

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Price: £2,000

Subject: Sciences

Published Date: 1962

Stock Number: 75240

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