The Looking-Glass War.

"Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray": First Edition of John LeCarre’s The Looking-Glass War; Inscribed by Him

The Looking-Glass War.

LE CARRE, John.

Item Number: 3956

London: Heinemann, 1965.

First edition. Octavo, original black boards. Fine in the dust jacket with the usual fading to the spine. Inscribed by the author, “Larry with best wishes from John le Carre London, Jan 3rd 1966.”

The Looking-Glass War is John Le Carre’s 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).

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