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Lot of 2 Espionage Books by John le Carre

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Book Title: The Honourable Schoolboy

Author: John le Carre

Illustrator: Ben F. Wohlberg

Publisher: The Franklin Library, PA

Date: 1977

Part of the First Edition Society series

Brown leather binding with gilt design

Description: The novel The Honourable Schoolboy tells the story of an intelligence worker trying to save the secret intelligence service from being dismantled by the government.

Book Title: Smiley's People

Author: John le Carre

Illustrator: Ben F. Wohlberg

Publisher: The Franklin Library, PA

Date: 1979

Limited edition

Part of the "100 Greatest Books of All Time" series

Blue leather binding with gilt design

John le Carre, or David John Moore Cornwell, is a British author of espionage novels, inspired by his past as an intelligence officer. His spy novel Smiley's People is the third and final novel of the "Karla Trilogy", following Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy.

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