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Lot 4094    Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday 26 March)    Autographs

Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au

JOHN LE CARRE SIGNATURE, in blue ink on a souvenir typescript of 'The Honourable Schoolboy' Part 1, one page (21.5x28cm), at the top his name is typed incorrectly and he has corrected it in blue pen and inserted a note '(Sorry!). Very fine.

With certificate of authenticity of RR Auction.

David John Moore Cornwell, pen name John le Carre, is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, he worked for the British intelligence services MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under a pen name. His third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) became an international best-seller, and it remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.

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