The Russia House (Signed copy)

Signed by John le Carre, limited to 250 copies

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Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Limited edition, this being number 231 / 250. Hardback, quarter cloth with marbled covered boards. Gilt titling to spine. 24 × 15.5cm, 344pp.

Signed directly to the title page by John le Carre.

Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. A reluctant Barley is quickly trained by British Intelligence and sent to Moscow to liaise with a go-between, the beautiful Katya. Both are lonely and disillusioned. Each is increasingly certain that if the human race is to have any future, all must betray their countries...

Condition

A decent copy. The book lacks the tissue wrapper and is a little marked and faded to spine but otherwise very good.