Dancing with Eva.

£100 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A fine copy, inscribed on the title page “To David, with thanks best wishes. Alan 10/4/13”. Judd is the pseudonym of Alan Petty, described by some as “former soldier and diplomat” and by others as “Former MI6 agent” - Tim Cornwell used the former job description in A Private Spy , where he prints a moving late letter from Cornwell, and describes how Judd had been the messenger for Colin McColl’s 1995 invitation to Cornwell to return to MI6 and address them: Cornwell wrote “It’s very hard to explain what it meant to me, the invitation to the office. I hadn’t realised, until it happened, that it cd mean so much.” From the library of David Cornwell aka John Le Carré. Maggs Bros. Ltd., Catalogue 1526, John Le Carré: Books from The Library of Jane and David Cornwell at Tregiffian, Item 110.

• Year: 2008

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