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Buy this book on-line Le Carre, John (Pseud. David John Moore Cornwell ] : A Small Town in GermanyHeinemann, London, 1968 ISBN 0434109304
"Only the Foreign Office", a junior diplomat remarks, "could have sent a bull to catch a matador." The bull is Alan Turner, a rough-necked, rough-mouthed, lovable misfit from Foreign Office Security; the matador is Leo Harting, a middle-aged Second Secretary from the British Embassy in Bonn, "a sprite, weightless as the dark, slipping through the shadows as if they were a net". This is the man who, after twenty years of apparently loyal service to the Crown, has vanished, taking with him official files hot enough to frustrate or indeed compromise the entire British position at the negotiating table at Brussels, where a faltering British Government is making a desperate last attempt to save the national economy and get into the Common Market. In this atmosphere of approaching crisis, Alan Turner, therefore, is despatched from London to find Harting. "Which do they want?" he asks, "The man or the files?" Gradually it becomes clear that one is not enough without the other." Previous owner's book plate of ffep, else fine. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Le Carre, John (Pseud. David John Moore Cornwell ] : A Small Town in Germany. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Le Carre, John : A Small Town in GermanyCoward-McCann, Inc, 1968
DJ in archival cover. Stated first American edition., Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Le Carre, John : A Small Town in Germany. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Le CARRE**, JOHN: : A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANYLONDON.WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD.,1968. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.Owner dated (1968) gift,presentation inscrptn to ffe,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour illustrated upper panel with white+pale orange letters and plain,pale orange rear panel with some light sunning/fading of approx a 3/4" vertical strip towards edge of spine/backstrip's gutter - shadow due to proximity of a smaller book - with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly dust-soiled, lightly aged and minimally,sporadically,faintly foxed/spotted,fore-edge slightly brighter and cleaner but similarly affected as top edges; contents bright,tight and clean with minimal foxing to prelims,rest unfoxed,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Generally bright and clean,sharp-cornered - apart from rear board's lower corner which is minimally bumped - publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers with some minimal foxing/spotting and also with off-set foxing from dw/dj's front+rear inner flaps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xpp+1-306pp [paginated] includes prologue,17 chapters,an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and 4pp blanks at rear.Author died 12 December,2020.
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Le Carre's 5th novel,set in the Bonn offices of the British embassy [where David Cornwell once served as second secretary],against a background of concern that former Nazis are returning to positions of power in West Germany.
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1st ed, near fine (felt pen mark f.e.p.) in fine d/w. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of LE CARRE, John : A small Town in Germany. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. LE CARRE, John : A Small Town In GermanyHeinamenn 1968
1st ed, fine in near fine d/w, 2 short tears rear hinge. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of LE CARRE, John : A Small Town In Germany. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, livres rares, livres illustrées, atlases and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |