Ian McEwan — The Innocent

London, Jonathan Cape , 1990. First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of this first impression novel by Ian McEwan, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this novel. Considered to be one of Ian McEwan's finest, the story is set during the beginning of the Cold War in 1950s Berlin and follows a CIA and MI6 joint operation to infiltrate the Soviet High Command's phone lines. McEwan is listed as one of the greatest British writers since 1945 by The Times, and features in The Daily Telegraph list of the hundred most powerful people in British culture. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear only, minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. The dust wrapper is unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only, faint age toning to the head and tail of the spine and extremities of the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.