3 Complete Novels by John le Carré (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, A Small Town in Germany, Looking Glass War) [1986 HARDCOVER OMNIBUS]

3 Complete Novels by John le Carré (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, A Small Town in Germany, Looking Glass War)

FIRST EDITION THUS [1986] THE GREAT MASTERS LIBRARY / CHATHAM RIVER PRESS

First printing of this omnibus from the great masters library.  Leather bound cloth-back hardcover in very good condition. 

Light discoloration to cloth.   Silver coating on text block has eroded in several spots.  Pages have tanning but otherwise look and read flawlessly. 

Winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction [2010]

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.

Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to 42nd Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.