LE CARRÉ, John.

£7,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley's People. First editions, each work signed on the title page. The trilogy saw the return of le Carré's hero and master-spy George Smiley, almost ten years after the success of The Looking Glass War in 1965. Smiley is "an anti-Bond figure: dumpy, bespectacled, intellectual, mundane, and nearly invisible. In the Karla Trilogy... le Carré perfects the novelistic form of the realist spy" (Prévost, p. 197).

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