Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [with] The Honourable Schoolboy [with] Smiley's People. [The 'Karla' trilogy complete.]. Illustrations by Tim Laing. THE FOLIO 'KARLA' TRILOGY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASES
by Le CARRE John
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About This Item
Folio Society,, 2009-2010. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces and full-page illustrations in the text; pictorial grey cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a fine set in publisher's board slip-cases. Splendid FS edition of the most influential spy trilogy of the twentieth century.
Synopsis
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
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47659
- Title
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [with] The Honourable Schoolboy [with] Smiley's People. [The 'Karla' trilogy complete.]. Illustrations by Tim Laing. THE FOLIO 'KARLA' TRILOGY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASES
- Author
- Le CARRE John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Folio Society,
- Date Published
- 2009-2010
- Keywords
- folio society, le carre, john le carre, cornwell, david cornwell, karla, smiley, george smiley, alec guinness, tim laing
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