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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [with] The Honourable Schoolboy [with] Smiley's People.  THE 'KARLA' TRILOGY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [with] The Honourable Schoolboy [with] Smiley's People. THE 'KARLA' TRILOGY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [with] The Honourable Schoolboy [with] Smiley's People. THE 'KARLA' TRILOGY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

by LE CARRE John

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Hodder and Stoughton,, [1974-80]. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured endpaper maps in the second volume; original cloth (black/blue/blue respectively), gilt backs, first volume with red top (faded as often), edges very lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. First issue (with coloured endpaper maps) of 'The Honourable Schoolboy'. Bright set of the most important and influential spy fiction trilogy of the Cold War. COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, first published in 1974. It is the first volume of a three-book series informally known as The Karla Trilogy, followed by The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. All three novels were published as a single-volume omnibus, The Quest for Karla.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
44051
Title
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [with] The Honourable Schoolboy [with] Smiley's People. THE 'KARLA' TRILOGY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Author
LE CARRE John
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton,
Date Published
[1974-80]
Keywords
modern first editions, modern firsts, spy fiction, thrillers, john le carre, smiley, george smiley, karla, cold war

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