A SMALL TOWN IN GERMANY

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the cloth and gilt bright, the binding square and firm. A little rubbed to spine tips. The contents are bright and clean throughout. Light spotting to upper and fore-edges. Complete with the sharp dustwrapper, which has a small nick to the upper right corner of the front panel. The yellow lettering to the spine is a little faded. Not price-clipped (30s net to the front flap). An attractive copy.

Signed by the author in black ink to the title page. The author's fifth novel, set in Bonn, and the first not to feature George Smiley. It was adapted for a seven-episode BBC Radio 4 dramatisation in 1982.