LE CARRÉ, John. A Small Town in Germany.

LE CARRÉ, John. A Small Town in Germany. London: Heinemann. 1968.

8vo. Publisher’s burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 30s to front flap; pp. ix, 306, [4 (blank)]; some slight scuffing to jacket spine, slight rolling to head and tail of spine, some spotting to edges of textblock and endpapers but otherwise internally clean; very good.

First edition.

A Small Town in Germany, Le Carré’s fifth novel, is the first not to feature the character George Smiley. The story follows the disappearance of Leo Harting, who after twenty years of loyal service to the British crown, mysteriously vanishes along with top secret documents. Will Alan Turner be able to find Leo Harting and the documents before the position of the British government is threatened?

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