The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1977

The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré [GEORGE SMILEY #6]

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1977] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.

Dust jacket has shelf wear and a water stain to underside of back cover with some ink transfer from cloth;  corresponding color drain water stain to rear of cloth boards.    Price clipped on front panel..

Dust jacket now housed in a new HD protective brodart jacket protector.  Other than the water stain to rear boards; book itself is near mint and reads as new. 

In this classic masterwork, le Carré expands upon his extraordinary vision of a secret world as George Smiley goes on the attack.  

In the wake of a demoralizing infiltration by a Soviet double agent, Smiley has been made ringmaster of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service). Determined to restore the organization's health and reputation, and bent on revenge, Smiley thrusts his own handpicked operative into action. Jerry Westerby, "The Honourable Schoolboy," is dispatched to the Far East. A burial ground of French, British, and American colonial cultures, the region is a fabled testing ground of patriotic allegiances?and a new showdown is about to begin.