Buy this book on-line Le CARRE**, JOHN: : THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD & THE LOOKING GLASS WAR: NOVELS IN ONE VOLUMELONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON LIMITED,1994. ISBN 0340623225.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[These 2 titles were originally published in UK,by Gollancz,1963 and Heinemann,1965 respectively.This is the first complete,unabridged one-volume edn.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.This is believed to indicate an export edn,which usually precedes the UK trade edn issue/distribution. Bright,crisp,glossy laminated,dark blue background with dark blue+white silhouette illustration on upper panel along with both gilt and white letters,b/w author portrait photographic rear panel with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing. Top+fore-edges both aged/toned -as usual/normal with this issue - contents bright tight and clean,with the inevitable page-edge toning,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Dw/dj design repeated to bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, glossy boards,bright immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-224pp [paginated] includes the 2 complete,unabridged novels comprising 26 and 23 chapters respectively; plus [unpaginated] publisher advert to recto of first page,title page, contents list/table,1st novel's title page,2nd novel's title page,a dedication,author's note, contents list/table,Pts 1-3 separator pages and 10pp blanks at rear.
These two Cold War novels,born out of the creation of the Berlin Wall,complement each other ironically,by encapsulating a soured brilliance that never was and the muddled, inward-gazing reality of British Intelligence.
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