NMLP P-040683 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

A Perfect Spy

John le Carré · Hodder & Stoughton (London) · 1986

UK book club copies (Book Club Associates and similar) and US Book-of-the-Month Club copies circulate. Standard tells apply: a blind stamp (small impressed dot, circle, or square) on the rear board, absence of a price at the jacket flap on an unclipped jacket, thinner bulk and cheaper paper stock, and no Hodder impression line matching the trade issue.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-040683 for "A Perfect Spy" by John le Carré (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040683, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).