A PERFECT SPY. **
by Le CARRE**, JOHN:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 034038784X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340387849
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UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. Neat,ink,familial gift presentation inscrptn to half-title and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated dark green vertically lined background with red/white+blue letters to upper panel+spine/backstrip,author's b/w portrait photographic rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tipss - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain blue cloth boards with a darker blue cloth blind spine with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to same,blue+white striped headband and immaculate plain red endpapers oonor inscrptn excepted. UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-463pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a dedication.Author died 12 December,2020. Magnus Pym,lifetime secret agent and presently counselor for certain unmentionable matter at the British Embassy in Vienna has vanished.It is believed that he has defected.The chase is on for a missing husband,a devoted father,and a secret agent. Want more Le CARRE titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2 and 1001 Book You Must Read Before You Die and SIGNED catalogues.
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Synopsis
A Perfect Spy (1986) by John le Carré, is a novel about the mental and moral dissolution of a secret agent.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A PERFECT SPY. **
- Author
- Le CARRE**, JOHN:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 034038784X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340387849
- Publisher
- LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1986.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1986
- Keywords
- q52.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 034038784X.Espionage fiction.Spy_Cold War fiction.MI5_KGB_fiction.George Smiley_Karla_Jim Prideaux.British Intelligence fiction.Author died 12 December,2020.Books new,used,signed,rare,out-of-print.
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