JOHN LE CARRÉ. — The Looking-Glass War. A novel. (SIGNED)

Heinemann, 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 front free endpaper. 8vo. 245pp. Black boards lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. Edges a little spotted, and with just a trace of further spotting to several preliminary leaves and to very occasional margins. A very good copy in fair non-price-clipped dust wrapper, the publisher's red spine panel colouring badly faded as is invariably the case, and with a little chafing and surface loss to the spine ends and corner tips, and half a centimetre of loss from the head of the rear panel. The author's fourth novel, again including his spymaster George Smiley, although here only in a peripheral role., Very Good, Fair