A Small Town in Germany
by John le Carre
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
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About This Item
A Small Town in Germany, John le Carre.' Stated first American edition, first printing.
Dust Jacket: Very Good+ A beautiful, unclipped dust jacket with original price $6.95 still intact on inside flap. Jacket designed by Lenny Slonevsky. Author photo taken by Chris Salter. There is some foxing on inside jacket with a small area that has some chipping on the spine. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Coward-McCann, 1968. Red cloth with gold lettering on cover and black lettering on spine. No writing or markings in this very sturdy book, 383 pp.
This was le Carre's fifth novel. The authors novel is a Cold War espionage story set in Bonn, West Germany in the 1960's. He creates a world where the lines between right and wrong, good and evil, are horribly blurred. This is le Carré's first standalone novel, and the first not to feature recurring character George Smiley.
Synopsis
A Small Town In Germany is an espionage thriller by John le Carré, set against a background of concern that former Nazis were returning to positions of power in West Germany.
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- Bookseller
- Burning Tree Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BTB00317
- Title
- A Small Town in Germany
- Author
- John le Carre
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- 383
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- First edition, John le Carre, spy, espionage, a small town in Germany
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