Six Days of the Condor (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
GRADY, James. Six Days of the Condor. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2016.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974.
James Grady (b. 1949) grew up in Shelby, Montana, worked as a hay bucker and gravedigger before graduating from the University of Montana in journalism, and sold his first novel in 1973 while still in his early twenties. The novel was Six Days of the Condor, and it sold immediately, generated immediate attention, and was adapted into a major film within two years. He was twenty-four years old. The book established both his reputation and the template for an entire subgenre of American political thriller — the novel in which the protagonist discovers that the danger he faces originates not from an external enemy but from within the very institution that employs him.
Ronald Malcolm works in a small annex of the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C., staffed by analysts whose function is to read novels, looking for intelligence plot ideas that might have been independently conceived by adversaries or insiders. On an ordinary lunch break, Malcolm returns to find his entire section massacred. He is the only survivor, and he has no way of knowing whether the people trying to kill him are foreign agents, rogue CIA operatives, or both. He makes contact with the agency — code name Condor — and immediately draws another attempt on his life. With no one to trust and no way of knowing how deep the conspiracy runs, he has six days to find out who is trying to kill him and why before they find him first.
The novel's Cold War paranoia was perfectly calibrated for its moment: published the year Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, in a period when the Senate's Church Committee was actively investigating abuses by American intelligence agencies, it arrived into a culture already primed to believe that its own government was capable of exactly what the novel described. Sydney Pollack's 1975 film adaptation, with Robert Redford as the renamed Turner and Faye Dunaway as the woman he involves against her will, compressed the title to Three Days of the Condor and became one of the defining political thrillers of the decade. A television series, Condor, aired on Spectrum Originals in 2018 with Max Irons in the lead role. Grady's body of work has since won France's Grand Prix du Roman Noir, Italy's Raymond Chandler Award, and Japan's Baka-Misu literary prize.
Near fine. Some minor loss to cover gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
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Six Days of the Condor (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
Six Days of the Condor (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
GRADY, James. Six Days of the Condor. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2016.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974.
James Grady (b. 1949) grew up in Shelby, Montana, worked as a hay bucker and gravedigger before graduating from the University of Montana in journalism, and sold his first novel in 1973 while still in his early twenties. The novel was Six Days of the Condor, and it sold immediately, generated immediate attention, and was adapted into a major film within two years. He was twenty-four years old. The book established both his reputation and the template for an entire subgenre of American political thriller — the novel in which the protagonist discovers that the danger he faces originates not from an external enemy but from within the very institution that employs him.
Ronald Malcolm works in a small annex of the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C., staffed by analysts whose function is to read novels, looking for intelligence plot ideas that might have been independently conceived by adversaries or insiders. On an ordinary lunch break, Malcolm returns to find his entire section massacred. He is the only survivor, and he has no way of knowing whether the people trying to kill him are foreign agents, rogue CIA operatives, or both. He makes contact with the agency — code name Condor — and immediately draws another attempt on his life. With no one to trust and no way of knowing how deep the conspiracy runs, he has six days to find out who is trying to kill him and why before they find him first.
The novel's Cold War paranoia was perfectly calibrated for its moment: published the year Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, in a period when the Senate's Church Committee was actively investigating abuses by American intelligence agencies, it arrived into a culture already primed to believe that its own government was capable of exactly what the novel described. Sydney Pollack's 1975 film adaptation, with Robert Redford as the renamed Turner and Faye Dunaway as the woman he involves against her will, compressed the title to Three Days of the Condor and became one of the defining political thrillers of the decade. A television series, Condor, aired on Spectrum Originals in 2018 with Max Irons in the lead role. Grady's body of work has since won France's Grand Prix du Roman Noir, Italy's Raymond Chandler Award, and Japan's Baka-Misu literary prize.
Near fine. Some minor loss to cover gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
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Catalogue Number: HH000516
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GRADY, James. Six Days of the Condor. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2016.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974.
James Grady (b. 1949) grew up in Shelby, Montana, worked as a hay bucker and gravedigger before graduating from the University of Montana in journalism, and sold his first novel in 1973 while still in his early twenties. The novel was Six Days of the Condor, and it sold immediately, generated immediate attention, and was adapted into a major film within two years. He was twenty-four years old. The book established both his reputation and the template for an entire subgenre of American political thriller — the novel in which the protagonist discovers that the danger he faces originates not from an external enemy but from within the very institution that employs him.
Ronald Malcolm works in a small annex of the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C., staffed by analysts whose function is to read novels, looking for intelligence plot ideas that might have been independently conceived by adversaries or insiders. On an ordinary lunch break, Malcolm returns to find his entire section massacred. He is the only survivor, and he has no way of knowing whether the people trying to kill him are foreign agents, rogue CIA operatives, or both. He makes contact with the agency — code name Condor — and immediately draws another attempt on his life. With no one to trust and no way of knowing how deep the conspiracy runs, he has six days to find out who is trying to kill him and why before they find him first.
The novel's Cold War paranoia was perfectly calibrated for its moment: published the year Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, in a period when the Senate's Church Committee was actively investigating abuses by American intelligence agencies, it arrived into a culture already primed to believe that its own government was capable of exactly what the novel described. Sydney Pollack's 1975 film adaptation, with Robert Redford as the renamed Turner and Faye Dunaway as the woman he involves against her will, compressed the title to Three Days of the Condor and became one of the defining political thrillers of the decade. A television series, Condor, aired on Spectrum Originals in 2018 with Max Irons in the lead role. Grady's body of work has since won France's Grand Prix du Roman Noir, Italy's Raymond Chandler Award, and Japan's Baka-Misu literary prize.
Near fine. Some minor loss to cover gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000516
