Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [With] The Honourable Schoolboy [With] Smiley's People -- The Karla Trilogy

JOHN LE CARRE

Publication: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974, 1977, 1979, London, 1974, 1977, 1979

First editions. 8vo. Three volumes, original cloth [black/black/blue respectively], titles stamped in gilt on each spine, 349 pp., vii, 532 pp., 327 pp., Volume I has red top edges, all with the original pictorial dust jackets. A very clean bright set with minor edge wear, with only the third volume in the series price-clipped. First editions of all three of the famous spy novels. "David John Moore Cornwell, alias John le Carre, (born 19 October 1931) is a British author of spy novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, and began writing novels under his pen name. His third novel, 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold' (1963), became an international best-seller." - Wikipedia. It featured George Smiley who is the main character in this trilogy collectively known as the "Karla Trilogy" and in the television series Smiley was famously played by Alec Guiness. These books are difficult to find today, especially in collector's condition.

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