8vo. Half-title. Original green cloth. In unrestored unclipped dust jacket (tiny chips to two spine flap folds, a few tiny closed tears). 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF LE CARRE'S FIRST WORK, WITH LE CARRÉ'S SIGNATURE on a booklabel laid in. Call for the Dead introduced main character George Smiley, who Le Carré created as an intentional foil to James Bond. A FINE COPY.