JOHN LE CARRÉ. — Absolute Friends. A novel. (SIGNED)

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author by way of a title-specific bookplate pasted to the title page. 8vo. 383pp. Red boards lettered in black at the spine. Ribbon place marker. Top edge lightly spotted, and with half a dozen further pinpricks of spotting to the fore edge. A light horizontal crease to the rear free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher's spine panel colouring. A very good copy of this standalone espionage novel., Very Good, Very Good