Detective Fiction.

le Carré, John. A Small Town in Germany. 1968, presentation copy inscribed by the author to Edward Milward-Oliver with a seven-line inscription about the chief protagonist Leo Harting;  The Spy who came in from the Cold. 1963, second impression, signed by the author; The Constant Gardener. 2001; Absolute Friends. 2004; The Mission Song. 2006; A Most Wanted Man. 2008; Our Kind of Traitor. 2010; these all signed;  The Looking-Glass War. 1965, presentation copy inscribed by the author's father Ronnie Cornwell; The Naive and Sentimental Lover. 1971; The Honourable Schoolboy. 1977; Smiley's People, 1979; with seven others by the same author; together with works by Reginald Hill, Len Deighton, P.D. James, Lindsey Davis and man others; some signed; original cloth bindings, chiefly first editions, dust-jackets; 8vo (145)

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