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A Small Town in Germany
by John le Carré; John le Carre
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann. Hardcover. 1968. Brown cloth over boards with black print to spine and facsimile signature to cover. Deckle edge. Good+ book with no jacket. Old price sticker to front pastedown, otherwise interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight, ends bumped. Light soiling to cover. Light dampstain to top edge. Nice reading copy. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 271 pages.
Synopsis
A Small Town In Germany is an espionage thriller by John le Carré, set against a background of concern that former Nazis were returning to positions of power in West Germany.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books of the World
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000001170
- Title
- A Small Town in Germany
- Author
- John le Carré; John le Carre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, espionage, diplomats, diplomacy, embassies, foreign, inteligence, international, mystery, spy, thriller, Cold War, Bonn, Germany, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK
- Bookseller catalogs
- International Relations; Intelligence & Espionage; Fiction; Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Crime; Britain;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Deckle edge
- Deckle edge is the feathered edge of a page. Traditionally and historically, this was a side effect of the process of making...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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