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London: Heinemann, 1965. Publishers original black boards with silver lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, minor edge wear, sunned spine, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, two small whiteout marks. 246pp. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. '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 . . . ' So begins the new novel by John le Carre the author of The Spy Who Came in from teh Cold, which was joint winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for 1964. This was the book, which J.B. Priestley called 'a superbly constructed story, with an atmosphere of chilly hell'; while C.P. Snow acclaimed John le Carre as 'the best writer of spy stories, living or dead.' Standard postage free in Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.