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John Le Carre. The Looking Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$10.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Caffrey Books, Oundle, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$10.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean copy lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom
Le CARRE, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first edition copy with foxed edges, unmarked internally. The dust jacket is price clipped, faded at the spine, edge tears and small gap.
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$16.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: black cloth, silver lettering, 245 pp, first edition, cloth stained at the top, top end of spine worn, edges foxed, top edge stained Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London,, 1965.
Price: US$16.58 + shipping
Description: First edition: hardcover, octavo, 245pp. Pages and text block edges a little toned; price-clipped dustwrapper spine panel sunned with a small chip to the upper right corner of the front panel (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Else very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
John le Carre. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$18.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound in dust jacket. 1st UK edition. Sun fading to dust jacket spine. Previous owner's name on the front free end page. Offsetting to end pages. Minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
le Carré, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$18.70 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. 245 pp. A bright, crisp, as new copy but lacking dustjacket.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$19.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Black boards with silver lettering to spine are very good with minor pushing/bumping to corners, the odd very small mark and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping) to head/tail of spine. Minor spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name and date in large letters in pen to front end-paper. Pages bit tanned. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Odd small scratch to a few pages edges/tops. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
John Le Carre. THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$26.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean, straight book. Dust jacket spine sunned, small tear to top of front.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
le Carré, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, UK, 1965.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: iv + 246 pp. 2nd novel. 5.5" x 8" black cloth boards, silver spine letters, in orange and white, inner flap clipped DJ, with DJ spine bleached of color but black letters intact. DJ also with lower back panel tear across rear fold - pretty much repaired in acetate protector. Size: Small Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 246 Pp. Dark Grey Boards Stamped In Silver. First Printing, 1965. Book Near Fine, No Wear, Light Foxing To Top Edge Of Page Block. Dj Price Clipped, Spine Color Faded Away Leaving Strong Author's Name, A Few Touches Of Wear, Abrasion Along Front Flap Fold With 1/2" Split At Bottom, 3/4" Tear And Associated Crease At Bottom Of Rear Panel.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
le Carré, John. The Looking-Glass War. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1965.
Price: US$39.79 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: "'Snow covered the airfield. It had come from the north, in the mist, driven by the night wind, smelling of the sea. There it would stay all Winter, threadbare on the grey earth, an icy, sharp dust; not thawing and freezing, but static like a year without seasons. The changing mist, like the smoke of war, would hang over it, swallow up now a hangar, now the radar hut, now the machines; release them piece by piece, drained of colour, black carrion on a white desert.'. So begins the new novel by John le Carré, the author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which was joint winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for 1964." --- Original black papered boards, lettered silver on spine (20.2 cm height). Printed dustwrapper, faded on spine and minor fade top of front wrap, tear (1.8 cm length) top front wrap - now closed. Now protected. Pp. (x) 246.
Seller: D. A. Horn Books, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Carre, John le. The Looking-glass war. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$43.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 245 pag - fading on the spine and front - missing a part of the dustjacket (back) - see photo's
Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands
John Le Carre. The Looking Glass War. Heinemann London, 1965.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: dj, spine and top edge faced, torn on back Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Le Carre, John (Pseud. David John Moore Cornwell.). The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 'Snow covered the airfield. It had come from the north, in the mist, driven by the night wind, smelling of the sea. There it would say all Winter, threadbare on the grey earth, an icy, sharp dust; not thawing and freezing, but static like a year without seasons. The changing mist, like the smoke of war, would hang over it, swallow up now a hangar, now the radar hut, now the machines; release them piece by piece, drained of colour, black carrion on a white desert . . Neat copy of UK first edition but lacking the dj
Seller: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
Le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War: First printing. William Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$50.02 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine: First edition, first impression. Very clean and bright spine with silver gilt letters to letters, and boards with sharp corners; no previous owner's names or gift dedication; clean and tight text block with no spotting or sunning. Dust jacket condition: Good minus: 2cm open tear to bottom edge of spine and small white scuff to deep orange of front panel; 7cm closed tear from bottom of front panel exposing white paper under deep orange colour; nicks and scuffs to extremities; sunning to spine with all letters still visible; very clean bright yellow rear panel and flaps; neatly price clipped.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
LE CARRE, John. The Looking Glass War. Heinemann, London, England, 1965.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in black cloth w/silver spine titles. Near Fine book in About Fine unclipped DJ in clear protective cover. Small stain vertical page edge, owner info rear pastedown (hidden by DJ flap) else Fine and unmarked; jacket worn at top edge. The successor to "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold". 246pp.
Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Le CARRE John. THE LOOKING GLASS WAR. Wm Heinemann Ltd, London ,, 1965.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Description: Hb in Original Pink and Yellow Dw ( Not price clipped and priced at 18s) 245pp Minor chip to top of spin crease and Usual sunning of spine O/w A Vg/Vg copy and these days uncommon
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
John Le Carre. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$67.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Heinemann, London, 1965, Hardcover First U.K. Edition. Book condition: Very Good plus to Near Fine minus copy - a bit dusty on the top text block - otherwise clean and tight, Dust Jacket: Very Good, perhaps a bit less: sunning to the spine; 3/4 inch closed tear on the cover at bottom; some very light soiling/wear at the top & bottom where the glassene is a tiny bit off; price clipped - jacket comes in a removable, archival mylar sleeve - better than it sounds.
Seller: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War : First printing. Heinemann, London, United Kingdom, 1965.
Price: US$70.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (18s). Jacket has faults - namely minor patchy edge/shelf wear, significant fading to/near spine, a few small marks, a couple of areas of tape repair/reinforcement to reverse (white side), a couple of small (approx.1 cm) tears, little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, little pushing/bumping to corners, small crease to back inner flap, very small patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), the odd crease/rub to edges and is in only good condition. Boards are very good (having been well protected by the jacket) with the odd small mark, minor pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small rub to front and very minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Odd small scratch/bump to edges of a few pages. Pages bit tanned. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
LE CARRE JOHN. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$70.55 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with silver spine lettering. A former owner's contemporary name and date to the front free end-paper and a single foxing spot to the top edge otherwise a VG++ copy. The price-clipped dustwrapper is faded to the spine (with lettering still clearly visible) and minisculy nicked to the spine tips. Quite a nice copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. THE LOOKING GLASS WAR. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: After his bestselling, "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold," LeCarre' reportedly felt he owed himself if no one else, a more honest look at England's intelligence services than he'd presented, with rose-tinted glasses, in "The Spy," a romance the critics loved. That true view is his fourth novel, "The Looking Glass War," in which the best the English intelligence services can do to combat a major Soviet operation is to reactivate Fred Lieser, a German-speaking Pole become an Englishman, once a valuable radio operator, now working at something in the retail auto industry while they wait for the CIA to come to the rescue. First Edition, first printing ("First published 1965"), with author's 1964 foreword from Crete. About 5 1/2 x 8 inches, 246 pages in black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Sorry, no dustjacket. Top and fore edges of text lightly foxed, boards show very minimal rubbing and surface wear. No tears, no chipping, no bumped corners or dogeared pages. Not ex-library or remaindered. Complete, clean and unmarked. A collectable copy of LeCarre's fourth book, which over the years has gained considerable standing among LeCarre's works.
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
John le Carre. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The pages are slightly toned, but the binding is square and tight and the signatures of the spine are bright and intact with no flaking. The spine of the dust jacket is sun-faded and the top right of the front panel was torn and wrinkled, but intact and there is a large one inch by two inch chip torn from the bottom left of the rear panel.
Seller: Proteus Bound, Chesterton, IN, U.S.A.
LE CARRÉ, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with fading, short tears, and edgewear. Basis for the 1969 film starring Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, and Anthony Hopkins.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LE CARRE, John. The Looking-Glass War. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 245 pages. The fourth book from this acclaimed writer of spy thrillers and includes in a minor role George Smiley. The basis for a Frank Pierson directed movie with a young Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Jones and Ralph Richardson. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with the usual sunning to the spine, a tear to the top front corner and some other light wear. Still a pleasing copy of this classic.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Le Carré, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Black boards. Head of spine a trifle faded, near fine in good plus dust jacket (spine faded, some soiling)
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John. The Looking Glass War.. London; Heinemann;, 1965.
Price: US$76.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Very good with some foxing in a very good dustjacket that has as usual a faded spine plus wear to the top edge.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$78.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very nice copy. The book is fine. The dust jacket is price clipped and has a tear to the top cover with 1cm square portion missing. John Le Carre's fourth novel.
Seller: West End Editions, Burlington, ON, Canada
LE CARRÉ, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. A bump on the spine foot else about fine in a very good dust jacket with a tear on the spine and edgewear. Basis for the 1969 film starring Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, and Anthony Hopkins.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
John Le Carre. The Looking Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$100.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Price clipped-spine sunned.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heineman, London, United Kingdom, 1965.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1965 Heinemann TRUE FIRST UK EDITION of a very early LeCarre thriller. This copy is in Very Good/G condition for an ex-library book. The HB is very clean and black with minimal wear and no lean. The indication of being ex-library are tape residues on the rear and front blank end papers. There are no stamps. The unclipped DJ has wear along the edges, corners and spine ends with two repaired tears.The colors are still very vivid save for fading along the spine.
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
John Le Carre. The Looking Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$121.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean tight copy in a spine faded price clipped wrapper, crease to rear panel, a touch of age discolouration to page edges, tiny red ink splash marks to top page edges, photos available on request.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
John Le Carré. The Looking-Glass War. William Heineman, 1965.
Price: US$166.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London; 1965. 8vo. 246pp. First edition, first impression. Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine. Bound in it's original black cloth binding with silver title to the spine, this book is in excellent condition, with just a hint of bumping to the base of the spine, although this really is negligible, and two small, faint marks to the rear. Inside, the book is in equally smart condition, clean and bright, with no marks or damage to speak of apart from a little spotting to the page rims. It is in remarkable condition for a book of this age. The book is housed in it's original dust jacket, which is bright and clean, but clipped. There is a touch of bumping to the edges and a small mark to the bottom of the front flap. There is also some fading to the spine. However, apart from these minor points, the jacket is in very smart condition, which is increasingly harder to find with this title, and it compliments the book beautifully. Overall, this is a very collectible example of this popular first edition by John Le Carré, his fourth novel, which will sit beautifully in any modern first collection. Disturbed by readers' romanticisation of his preceding novel, 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold', le Carre wrote this explicit satire of a fictional British intelligence agency, known as 'The Department', and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile build-up in East Germany, in an attempt to deconstruct the mythos of MI6 in the post war era.
Seller: Everlasting Editions, Croydon, United Kingdom
LE CARRE, John.. The Looking Glass War.. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$224.37 + shipping
Description: First edition. Fine in d/w which is quite faded on the spine with a 1" chip in the upper panel but stil very good.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$275.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Price clipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 245pp. Signed and inscribed by author in blue ink to cutting pasted to ffep. Not library copy, couple of tears to top edge of dustjacket, fading to spine. (59/2)
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
David Cornwell writing as John Le Carre. The Looking-Glass War. William Heinemann Ltd. London, 1965.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a very good dustjacket with minor wear to the extremities, some spine fade and a small nick at the top of the spine. The 4th novel in the George Smiley spy/adventure series, an intelligence officer with the "Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. The basis for the 1970 film of the same name starring Christopher Jones.
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
Price: US$352.74 + shipping
Description: [Spy Thriller] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 246. Elegantly hand-bound in half red morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, with matching cloth over boards and top edge gilt. A crisp, clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Follow-up to the Edgar-winning novel 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold' and basis for the 1970 spy thriller starring Ralph Richardson, Christopher Jones and Anthony Hopkins.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
JOHN LE CARRÉ.. The Looking-Glass War. A novel. (SIGNED). Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author by way of a title-specific bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 245pp. Black boards lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. Edges a little spotting, and with just a trace of further spotting to several preliminary leaves and to very occasional margins. A very good copy in fair non-price-clipped dust wrapper, the publisher's red spine panel colouring badly faded as is invariably the case, and with a little chafing and surface loss to the spine ends and corner tips, and half a centimetre of loss from the head of the rear panel. The author's fourth novel, again including his spymaster George Smiley, although here only in a peripheral role.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
John Le Carre. THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$522.50 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Good dust jacket. Owner name. Two large tears to front panel.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
LE CARRE, John. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$641.34 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 246. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed dust jacket. A fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, a little sunning to spine, and a little edgewear to front fold and top edge. First edition. 'I am reading a book by John Le Carré called The Looking-Glass War which is infinitely sad and depressing. Le Carré writes about that clubby class of Englishmen as well as anybody I've ever read.' (Richard Burton's diary entry, 7 August 1970) HUBIN, p. 249
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. The Looking Glass War. Heinemann, London, England, 1965.
Price: US$648.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: author's 4th book; not price clipped; " snow covered the airfield."; dj publisher plastic protected; thumb-size minor stain bottom end pages
Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada
Le Carre, John. The Looking Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED first edition, with first published 1965 stated on copyright page. Book fine, with minor foxing to edges of page ends. Dust jacket very good, tanning, minor wear.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Le Carré John. THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR. London Heinemann 1965, 1965.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, the spine lettered in silver, in the vibrant red dustjacket, printed in black yellow and white. [x], 246 pp. A fine copy, the spine panel of the dustjacket has mellowed. FIRST EDITION. THE SUCCESSOR BOOK TO THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Le Carré writes: 'Snow covered the airfield. It had come from the north, in the mist, driven by the night wind, smelling of the sea. There it would stay all Winter, threadbare on the gray earth, an icy, sharp dust; not thawing and freezing, but static like a year without seasons. The changing mist, like the smoke of war, would hang over it, swallow up nw a hanger, now the radar but, now the machines; release them piece by piece, drained of colour, black carrion on a white desert." THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD won the Maugham Award for 1964. J.B. Priestley called that book 'a superbly constructed story, with an atmosphere of chilly hell' and C.P Snow acclaimed John le Carré as 'the best wirter of spy stories, living or dead'. THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR continues in like traditiion, a shockingly good book.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War.. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in the original price-clipped dust jacket with some light fading to the spine. The Looking-Glass War is John Le Carres fourth George Smiley novel. Set in the early 1960s the cold war is in full swing, and the Department, a holdover from the WWII section of British intelligence, forms an uneasy alliance with its rival agency, the Circus, when it is suspected that Soviet missiles may be in the process of being placed along the West German border. "A book of rare and great power" (Financial Times).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Le Carre, John (1931-2020). Looking-Glass War (Signed First Edition). Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Dust jacket is not price-clipped (retaining publisher's printed price of 18s), has a fold line on front panel right next to the flap fold, a small scrape on front panel, a crease top of front panel, the spine panel is slightly faded, and minor rubs along edges, especially bottom of spine panel. A novel, and basis of 1970 movie. 246 pages. Signed by author (signature only) on title page. All in all, a pretty nice copy uncommon signed.
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
John Le Carre. The Looking Glass War - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$1218.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK - A very good or better book signed by the author to the title page. There is some light foxing to the page block, but the inner text is very clean indeed, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. The block cloth boards are fine with nobumps or knocks to the corners. The dust wrapper is in very good condition with fading to the spine, but not as faded as is normally encountered. Light creasing to the rear panel, but overall a clean example that has been neatly price clipped.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom
John Le Carre. The Looking Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$1410.94 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A signed, first edition of John Le Carre's espionage novel, 'The Looking Glass War'. This spy novel explores the unglamorous nature of espionage and the dangers of nostalgia. It follows an incompetent British Intelligence agency known as 'The Department'.The first edition, first impression.With the original unclipped dustwrapper in a very smart condition. The spine is sunned, as is common.Signed by Le Carre to a tipped in card on the title page.From the George Smiley series, this is a second novel written by an author best known for his espionage novels. John Le Carre, a pseudonym for David Johnn Moore Cornwall, worked for MI5 and MI6. 'The Looking Glass War' followed his bestseller 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to the head of spine. Dustwrapper is very smart with sunning to the spine, as is common with this title. Minor shelfwear to the extremities. Le Carre's signature to the title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. THE LOOKING-GLASS WAR. Heinemann (1965), London, 1965.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. An incompetent British intelligence agency known as "The Department" and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile build-up in East Germany. INSCRIBED BY LE CARRE on front endpaper, "S. Sanders/ best wishes/ John le Carre." Page edges foxed and two small stains to rear pastedown otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket with inconspicuous creases, touch of finish separation, and red on spine mellowed to pink, as is endemic to this jacket (lettering still quite readable).
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
LE CARRÉ, John.. The Looking-Glass War.. London: Heinemann, 1965, 1965.
Price: US$1924.01 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "John le Carré, with best wishes". Disturbed by the public's romanticization of his previous novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), le Carré wrote this explicit satire of a fictional British intelligence agency in an attempt to deconstruct the mythos surrounding MI6 in the post-war era. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Covers lightly rubbed, edges foxed; spine panel sunned else jacket bright, laminate lifting slightly, edges slightly soiled and rubbed, unclipped. A very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Le Carre, John. The Looking-Glass War : Double Signed By The Author. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$2886.01 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by Heinemann, London in 1965. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just some very light toning to the text-block. A hint of spotting to the lower text-block. Free from inscriptions. The WRAPPER is neatly price-clipped and is in near Fine condition. Some very light edge-wear at the upper spine end. The colouring to the spine remains very bright with no fading of the red colouring to the spine (Please ignore the white patches in the images which are just reflective glare). The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been double signed (without dedication) by the author to the title page : 'John Le Carre a.k.a. David Cornwell'. A very collectible copy of the author's fourth title and very scarce to find double signed. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
LE CARRE JOHN. The Looking-Glass War. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$3174.62 + shipping
Description: (London: William Heinemann Ltd 1965). First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with silver lettering to the spine. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE TITLE PAGE. A couple of tiny bumps to the boards otherwise a fine copy in a near fine price-clipped D/W with a very slightly faded spine (although a lot less faded than usually encountered). Signed on the title page by the late, John Le Carre. A very nice copy indeed. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
John Le Carre. The Looking Glass War - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$3206.68 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HARDBACK - A fine book that has been boldly signed by the author to the title page. The black cloth boards are very clean indeed, as is the text block and the inner text, that are free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also in fine condition with a blood red spine with absolutely no loss in colour. No tears or chipping and with no laminate lifting. Neatly price clipped, otherwise a sublime dust wrapper, as is the book. Included with the book is a red custom made slipcase box for the future protection of this title.
Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom