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Price: US$278.13 + 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
JOHN LE CARRÉ.. The Looking-Glass War. A novel. (SIGNED). Heinemann, London, 1965.
Price: US$388.08 + 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
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$1228.94 + 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$1422.98 + 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$1940.42 + 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$2910.64 + 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$3201.70 + 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$3234.04 + 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