Smiley's People.

JOHN le CARRE

Publication: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979, London

First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in dust jacket and the nicest copy of this title that we have seen in the past 30 years.

In London, in the dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus, as the Secret Service is known, receives the news of the murder of an ex-agent. His brief is to bury the crime, not to solve it, as he fights his own private battle from London to Paris and Hamburg.

An exceptional copy. There may be another copy as nice as this one, but none better.