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LE CARRE, John.. A Small Town in Germany.. London, Heinemann 1968., 1968.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Edges slightly foxed, bookseller's label on the front paste-down, o/w very good in like dustjacket.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Le Carre, John. A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$16.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PRICE NOT CLIPPED. Slightly chipped at bottom of dj spine & bottom corner.
Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia
John Le Carre. A Small Town in Germany. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1968.
Price: US$17.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Price clipped. A good clean copy apart from some minor staining and foxing to the closed page edges.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
John Le Carre. A Small Town in Germany. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1968.
Price: US$19.29 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Light rolling to the leading corners. Ink name to fep. Light foxing to the closed page edges. Otherwise a very nice clean copy. The jacket has an archival tape repair to a short closed tear and minor edge wear. Price clipped.
Seller: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, New Zealand
John Le Carre. A Small Town In Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$27.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Heinemann, London, 1968 Hardcover First British Edition, first issue dustjacket; Le Carre's fifth book. Book Condition: Very Good plus with a faint discoloured stain on the top text block, otherwise tight, internally clean. Dust jacket: Near Fine with a tiny amount of curl at the top of the spine; not price clipped - comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve.
Seller: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Le Carré, John. A Small Town in Germany. William Heinemann: London, 1968.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First British Edition. Very good maroon cloth (gilt-stamped titles on spine) in VG+ un-clipped dust jacket (original 30s price intact on inner flap). First impression dust jacket. 8vo. [x] 306 pp. An early Le Carre title. First four pages of the prologue have a smudge on the fore-edge; otherwise pages crisp, bright and free of ownership markings. Additional photos available upon request. Ships fast with tracking.
Seller: A Book Preserve, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
LE CARRE, John. A Small Town In Germany. William Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First British Edition and first printing. Hardcover. 306 pages. A relatively early spy novel from this acclaimed British writer. A tight close to near fine copy with a small gift inscription to the title page in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and edge tears.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
LE CARRE, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$35.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second impression same year as first. 306pp Dust jacket has small 2ccm closed tear on cover fold.
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
le Carre, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann London 1968, 1968.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo x + 306pp., Some spotting to edge of text block o/w a nice copy in a nice unclipped dust jacket
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Le Carre, John. A Small Town In Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very nice clean copy . First edition hardback in original dustjacket , Book has no inscriptions , no spine lean , usual page toning with age , offsetting to endpapers ,bottom spine tip pushed , in jacket that is not spine faded , not price-clipped showing 30s net on flap , no tears, no wear , not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic, bubble-wrapped and in a strong box. We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999.
Seller: Alan White Fine Books, BRIGHTON, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. A Small Town In Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$39.90 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Maroon boards. The spine is gilt-stamped. Octavo. 306pps. There is faint soiling to the page-edges and a bit of tanning to the endpapers, otherwise overall clean, bright, square, and soundly bound. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is rubbed and has shallow chipping at the tips and spine-ends; there is, also, some sunfading to the rear panel. The original price is intact. ".A man is missing. His name is Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files: all of them Confidential or above. It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse -- and that's probably not an accident. Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find the missing man along with the files as Germany's past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.
Seller: Nooks Of Books , Elkins Park, PA, U.S.A.
LE CARRE, JOHN. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE ( one small closed tear to base of front flap; tiny chips at corners) jacket. None of the usual fade to orange spine lettering!
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
John Le Carre. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book is in very good condition, tightly bound. Top edge has light markings. Dust jacket Is complete with light wear to the extremities; unclipped. Internally generally clean; free of markings and foxing. ; 306 pages; Needs photos
Seller: Truffle Books, Liverpool, MERSE, United Kingdom
John Le Carré. A Small Town In Germany. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1968.
Price: US$50.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Printing, not price clipped ( 30s), no owner's name or other inscription, some age toning to page ends, some tanning to fep, bookseller's label to front paste-down, D/j spine mildly sun faded with 1cm tear at top rear edge, D/j has some creasing at base of front cover and a 3cm tear to front edge at base although all D/j blemishes are now disguised in a clear removable sleeve
Seller: MHO - Collectors' Books, Fittleworth, Pulborough, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. A Small Town In Germany. Heinemann 1968, London, 1968.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 306 pp. Maroon hardback in dust jacket. Not price clipped. Minor rubbing to edges of boards and panels. A few small tears and chips to jacket but overall jacket is intact and vibrant. Ink gift inscription to front free endpaper. Foxing to fore-edge. Internally bright, clean and well-read. 434109304 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Le Carré, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An early piece of Le Carré marginalia, a thriller set in Bonn around the potential accession of Great Britain to the European Common Market. One of Le Carré s most autobiographical (and privately loathed) volumes, it is also one of his only early novels not to feature George Smiley and the Circus . In later years, Le Carré would acknowledge that this book was published during a period of acute mental strain. The volume is therefore accordingly scarce. Tear to the dust jacket, previous owner has inscribed their name. A good, bright copy. Perfect for a gift or to complete a collection.
Seller: Burley Fisher Books, London, United Kingdom
Le Carré, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London. London, 1968.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine book in VG dust jacket. First British and true first edition. 1 1/2"tear at top and bottom of front flap fold and faint crease to rear panel, a few minor spots, unclipped price is 30s, jacket now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; appears to be unread, no defects. Author's 5th book. . Maroon cloth covers and pages clean and bright. An attractive copy, jacket protected by mylar cover. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 306 pages. S1
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
John Le Carre. A Small Town in Germany. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1968.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing in Near Fine/Near Fine condition in a Brodart cover. Unsigned.
Seller: Libris Redux, Dundas, ON, Canada
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "Only the Foreign Office", a junior diplomat remarks, "could have sent a bull to catch a matador." The bull is Alan Turner, a rough-necked, rough-mouthed, lovable misfit from Foreign Office Security; the matador is Leo Harting, a middle-aged Second Secretary from the British Embassy in Bonn, "a sprite, weightless as the dark, slipping through the shadows as if they were a net". This is the man who, after twenty years of apparently loyal service to the Crown, has vanished, taking with him official files hot enough to frustrate or indeed compromise the entire British position at the negotiating table at Brussels, where a faltering British Government is making a desperate last attempt to save the national economy and get into the Common Market. In this atmosphere of approaching crisis, Alan Turner, therefore, is despatched from London to find Harting. "Which do they want?" he asks, "The man or the files?" Gradually it becomes clear that one is not enough without the other." Previous owner's book plate of ffep, else fine
Seller: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
le Carre, John. Small Town in Germany, A. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1968.
Price: US$75.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: "Only the Foreign Office", a junior diplomat remarks, "could have sent a bull to catch a matador." The bull is Alan Turner, a rough-necked, rough-mouthed, lovable misfit from Foreign Office Security; the matador is Leo Harting, a middle-aged Second Secretary from the British Embassy in Bonn, "a sprite, weightless as the dark, slipping through the shadows as if they were a net". This is the man who, after twenty years of apparently loyal service to the Crown, has vanished, taking with him official files hot enough to frustrate or indeed compromise the entire British position at the negotiating table at Brussels, where a faltering British Government is making a desperate last attempt to save the national economy and get into the Common Market. In this atmosphere of approaching crisis, Alan Turner, therefore, is despatched from London to find Harting. "Which do they want?" he asks, "The man or the files?" Gradually it becomes clear that one is not enough without the other. John le Carre is the pen name of David Cornwell, a former Eton schoolmaster and British Foreign Servant. Five hundred years ago, he writes, he served in the British Embassy in Bonn, where this novel is set. Only the people are imaginary. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Carre, John le. A small town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$82.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 306 pag
Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands
Le Carre, John. A Small Town In Germany. Heinemann 1968, London, 1968.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. 306 pp. Hardback in illustrated jacket, price clipped. Minimal wear to jacket edge, yellowed endpapers and block edge foxed, but otherwise internally and externally clean. 0434109304 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
LE CARRÉ, John. A Small Town in Germany. William Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: x, 306 p. 23 cm. Burgundy cloth in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Book has some offsetting, stains and an ink inscription on front endpapers, a little offsetting to rear. Some faint marks to first leaves.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Le Carre, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pages bright, spotting on endpapers and closed edges, boards tidy, dust jacket edge worn and in plastic protective wrapper. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
LE CARRÉ, John.. A Small Town in Germany.. Heinemann, London., 1968.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp x, 306.Tail of spine a little faded, otherwise fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly creased at top edge.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
John Le Carre [David Cornwell]. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Description: A smart first edition of this thrilling novel from British author, John le Carre. First edition. An espionage novel set in Bonn during the 1960s where there are growing concerns that former Nazis may be returning to positions of power in West Germany. Written by John le Carre, the pen-name of David Cornwell, an English author best known for his espionage novels. In the original burgundy cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with shelf wear and chipping to the extremities. The odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
LE CARRÉ, John. A Small Town in Germany. London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1968.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo, pp 306. Bound in burgundy cloth covered hard boards with gilt lettering to the spine, and in the original dust jacket which is unclipped and priced $4.25. Authors fifth book. There is a small booksellers label to the front pastedown for David Jones Book Shop. Likely an export copy to Australia thus explaining the dollar price printed on the front flap. Book is in almost Fine condition, light offset browning to rfep, jacket is Near Fine, slight fading to the orange on the rear panel and the orange lettering to the spine.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John.. A Small Town in Germany.. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1968.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First British Edition, First Impression. A Fine copy in maroon textured paper covered boards, in a Fine black and caramel dustwrapper, price-clipped. First state jacket without reviews on rear panel. 306pp. The novel that immediately preceded the Smiley espionage series (the Karla Trilogy). Q16191
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1968 Heinemann TRUE FIRST edition of this early Le Carre spy thriller. This copy is in VG/VG condition. The HB is very clean & tight with only the name "Marie" on the ffep. The unclipped DJ has minor wear along the spine ends & edges. **Brenbooks specializes in first edition thrillers, many signed!
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John.. Dust Jacket for A Small Town In Germany. London: Heinemann., 1968.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. Dust Jacket Only. Good with minor tears, protective sleeve. 30s. net on flyleaf. First Edition.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition first printing of a near fine hardcover with a thinness to the ffep where it looks like a previous owner tried to remove a another previous owner's name, in a near fine dustjacket that has been price clipped. Featuring Alan Turner sent by the British Foreign Office to Bonn to find Leo Harting a minor British Embassy officer who has disappeared along with some secret files.
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30s. A moderately used copy, jacket with a few neat tape strips to reverse side. Very good. 'A Small Town In Germany' is set in Bonn, the small and provincial capital of West Germany, where le Carré had worked in the Foreign Service. In this novel a minor bureaucrat in the British Embassy named Leo Harting has disappeared, along with many top secret files. The story deals with topical issues, student riots and rising neo-Fascism, with an ambiguous message about what might happen in the near future in Federal Germany.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. A Small Town in Germany. London Heinemann 1968, 1968.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Heinemann in 1968. A near fine book with a little off setting to the rear paste down and free end paper, however, clean internally. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with slight wear to the top edges and one small closed tear to the front panel. Rare.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Le Carre', John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first English edition, published by Heinemann in 1968. Bound in publisher's rose colored boards. A Near fine example of the book, with some very faint spotting to the page edges. Dust jacket very good with small chips to the spine ends and a half inch tear to the upper forecorner of spine. Tear to inside of front flap. Jacket priced at 30S Net.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
John le Carré. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$196.23 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition. London: Heinemann 1968. Book is fine and has a Burgundy cloth. Dustwrapper is very good and has a tear at the front flap (see photo). Otherwise fine.
Seller: Nik's Bookstore Versandantiquariat, PBFA, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
Le Carre, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$200.20 + shipping
Description: true first of le carre's fifth book.price clipped early state with plain orange back panel of dust jacket.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, 1968.
Price: US$212.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Heinemann, 1968. First Edition. 306 pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. Book is square, binding tight and absent of any marks or inscriptions. There is some toning to paste-downs and flyleaves. The bright wrapper is price-clipped. A Small Town in Germany is set in Bonn, West Germany, where le Carré had worked in the Foreign Service. A minor bureaucrat in the British Embassy has disappeared, along with several confidential files. The story takes place in an environment of international espionage, student riots and rising neo-Fascism.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Description: [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket. A lightly used copy with some minor edge wear, jacket with discreet tape strips to reverse side at spine ends, price clipped. Near fine. 'A Small Town In Germany' is set in Bonn, the small and provincial capital of West Germany, where le Carré had worked in the Foreign Service. In this novel a minor bureaucrat in the British Embassy named Leo Harting has disappeared, along with many top secret files. The story deals with topical issues, student riots and rising neo-Fascism, with an ambiguous message about what might happen in the near future in Federal Germany.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
John Le Carre. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, 1968.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A brilliant first printing of the first English edition [Heinemann London (1968)], signed by author John Le Carre on a loose book page, which is laid in to the book. The book is in fine condition with no remainder marks, a tight and square binding, with no owner inscriptions or highlighting and no staining or marking. The dust jacket is in near fine condition, price-clipped, with no creases, chips or tears but some shelf wear. It is now protected by an archival cover which is easily removable. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.
Seller: C&S Books, Windsor, ON, Canada
LE CARRE, John. A Small Town In Germany. Heinemann/BCA, London, 1968.
Price: US$273.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Book Club edition issued by Heinemann. Same size as the first trade edition. The author's fifth novel. This copy is flat-signed to the title page in blue ink by the author. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with minuscule wear and neat internal repair to two tiny closed tears at the head of the spine.
Seller: MANOR COLLECTABLES, WOODHALL SPA, LINCS, United Kingdom
LE CARRE John. A Small Town in Germany. , 1968.
Price: US$276.67 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Heinemann. A very good copy, a little wear to extremities of the jacket, and neat ownership signature to front free endpaper.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
LE CARRE, JOHN. A Small Town in Germany. William Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Le Carré's fifth novel, a Cold War espionage story set in Bonn, the capitol of West Germany. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.306; [2], blank. Burgundy cloth hardcover in pictorial dust-jacket. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A near fine copy in like jacket. 'A Small Town In Germany' is set in Bonn, the small and provincial capital of West Germany, where le Carré had worked in the Foreign Service. In this novel a minor bureaucrat in the British Embassy named Leo Harting has disappeared, along with many top secret files. The story deals with topical issues, student riots and rising neo-Fascism, with an ambiguous message about what might happen in the near future in Federal Germany. Le Carre's experiences as an MI6 agent informed his spy novels and the series character George Smiley, created as an antidote to James Bond. His friend, author Nicholas Shakespeare, the official biographer of Ian Fleming, suggests in an interview with The Spectator that the pseudonym Le Carre (real name David Cornwell), was inspired by James Bond's memorable first opponent Le Chiffre.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$352.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First printing. SIGNED by the author upon a small plain bookplate pasted to the title page. Very Good or better with small marks to the edges of the text block, in Very Good, price-clipped dustjacket. protected by an archival quality, removeable, transparent, inert jacket protector.Overseas buyers please read shipping terms and estimated transit times prior to ordering.' 'We are established reputable First Edition sellers and understand collectors needs in terms of accurate grading and proper packaging'
Seller: Malden Books, Kingston-upon-Thames, SURRE, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. A Small Town in Germany. London; Heinemann;, 1968.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Fine in near fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Le Carré John. A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY. London Heinemann 1968, 1968.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the pictorially decorated dustjacket. x, 306 pp. A fine copy with a light touch of rubbing to the tips of the dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. 'Only the Foreign Office', a junior diplomat remarks, 'could have sent a bull to catch a matador.' The bull is Alan Turner, a rough-necked rough-mouthed, lovable misfit from Foreign Office Security; the matador is Leo Harting, a middle-aged Second Secretary from the British Embassy in Bonn, 'a sprite, weightless as the dark, slipping through the shadows as if they were a net'. This is the man who, after twenty years of apparently loyal service to the Crown, has vanished, takeing with him official files hot enough to frustrate or dindeed compromise the entire British position at the negotiating table at Brussels, where a faltering British Government is making a desperate last attempt to save the national economy and get into the Common Market. In this atmosphere of approaching crisis, Alan Turner, therefore, is dispatched from London to find Harting. 'Which do they want ?' he asks. 'The man or the files ?' Gradually it becomes clear that one is not enough without the other.' Publisher
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John (1931-2020). A Small Town in Germany (Signed First Edition). Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Bump to top fore corner of book, many small faint spots of foxing to top edge of pages, one on the fore edge, and one on the bottom edge. Dust jacket is not price-clipped, retaining publisher's printed price of 30s, and has very minor wear to tips. 306 pages. Signed by author (signature only) on title page.
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
LE CARRE JOHN. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$416.28 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's maroon boards with gilt spine lettering. A fine copy in like D/W with NO FADING WHATSOEVER TO THE SPINE. The D/W is NOT price-clipped. This title has become very hard to find in such nice, attractive collector's condition. Laid in is an obituary from The Times (dated December 19, 2020) by Ben McIntyre wherein he speculates about who inspired Smiley, Karla & Co. A lovely copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
LE CARRE, JOHN. A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY. HEINEMANN, London, 1968.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DJ. SIGNED ON BOOKPLATE
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John LeCarre, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. GREAT, COLLECTIBLE COPY OF AN EARLY LE CARRE NOVEL!
Seller: Books Plus, LLC, Lexington, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$832.56 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the cloth and gilt bright, the binding square and firm. A little rubbed to spine tips. The contents are bright and clean throughout. Light spotting to upper and fore-edges. Complete with the sharp dustwrapper, which has a small nick to the upper right corner of the front panel. The yellow lettering to the spine is a little faded. Not price-clipped (30s net to the front flap). An attractive copy. Signed by the author in black ink to the title page. The author's fifth novel, set in Bonn, and the first not to feature George Smiley. It was adapted for a seven-episode BBC Radio 4 dramatisation in 1982. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
JOHN LE CARRE. A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY. HEINEMANN, LONDON, 1968.
Price: US$864.58 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST PRINTING. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT, SIGNED BY LE CARRE TO TITLE PAGE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 10 + 306 PAGES. COUPLE OF VERY MINOR MARKS TO REAR OF JACKET WITH SOME VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR TO JACKET BUT OVERALL THIS IS AN EXCELLENT NEAR FINE COPY WITH MINIMAL FAULTS & WITHOUT THE USUAL FADING TO TEXT ON SPINE OF JACKET. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
LE CARRÉ, John.. A Small Town in Germany.. London: Heinemann, 1968, 1968.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This was le Carré's first non-George Smiley novel. Octavo. Original dark red boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Tiny bump to head of spine, a few spots to edges, contents lightly toned; jacket a little nicked and toned, unclipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Description: (London: William Heinemann Ltd 1968). First UK Edition. SIGNED BY THE LATE JOHN LE CARRE TO THE TITLE PAGE. Publisher's maroon boards with gilt spine lettering. A near fine copy (the merest hint of foxing to page block edges) in like dustwrapper nicked at the head of the spine. Signed by the Author on the front free end-paper. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
John Le Carre. A Small Town in Germany. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine priced dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
John Le Carre. A Small Town in Germany - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Heinemann, London, 1968.
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A fine book with virtually no toning to the page edges. Free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. The books boards are in fine condition, with no bumping to any of the corners. The dust wrapper is in near fine or better condition with no loss or tears, and with no fading to the spine. Neatly price clipped, else a fine example. Signed by the author to the title page.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom