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The Honourable Schoolboy
by John Le Carre
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394416457
- ISBN 13
- 9780394416458
- Seller
-
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
A superb first printing of the first American edition [Alfred Knopf NY 1977]. This book was signed by the late John Le Carre in 2011 directly on the title page. The book is very clean, in near fine condition. It has a small bookseller notation on the front free end paper but it has no remainder marks, a tight and square binding, no owner inscriptions or highlighting and no staining or marking. The dust jacket is also near fine, not price-clipped ($10.95), with no creases, chips or tears and minimal shelf wear, most evident at the bottom of the spine. Now protected by a Gaylord archival jacket that is completely removable. Please do not hesitate to contact us concerning this exceptionally clean and collectible book.
Synopsis
The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), by John le Carré, is a spy novel wherein British SIS Chief George Smiley must reconstruct the mole-devasted London headquarters, and also launch a successful offensive espionage operation to save “The Circus” from falling to the War Hawks in Government. Unto the breach enters Gerald Westerby, “The Honourable Schoolboy” and the protagonist spy of Operation Dolphin, effected in Hong Kong.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C&S Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001037
- Title
- The Honourable Schoolboy
- Author
- John Le Carre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394416457
- ISBN 13
- 9780394416458
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 533
- Size
- 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall
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About the Seller
C&S Books
Biblio member since 2023
Windsor, Ontario
About C&S Books
At C&S Books we have been collecting books for many years. We appreciate the beauty of a truly collectible book, with regard to both edition and condition. We maintain a small inventory of carefully curated first editions, many signed by award winning authors.
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- Title Page
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- Fine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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