LE CARRE, John - The Honourable Schoolboy

Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library, 1977. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ben F. Wohlberg. Small 4to. Full orange calf with raised bands and elaborate gilt lettering and decorative rules and devices. 546pp. All edges gilt. Color illustrations, orange moire silk endpapers, sewn-in orange satin page marker. Fine. Pristine, tight limited (unspecified) first edition, slightly preceding the Knopf first trade edition, of the popular George Smiley espionage novel by the actual MI6 agent turned bestselling novelist (1931-2020). This choice copy bears on front flyleaf an archival decorative-edged bookplate boldly signed by Le Carré in blue ink. Book is housed in the Franklin Library's thin card stock slipcase with gold foil label. .

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