THE TAILOR OF PANAMA

First American edition, first printing. With coloured end-papers depicting canal builders and a map of Panama and the Panama Canal Zone. Large 8vo, publisher's original blueboards backed in light gray cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in silver, and in the original dustjacket. 332, [8] pp. An as mint and completely pristine copy.

Edizione: a thrilling, yet hilarious, novel of a tailor turned spy. le carre's panama has been called "a casablanca without any heros."<br> everyone who is anyone in central america passes through the doors of harry pendel's panama city tailing shop. this makes him the perfect, though rather unusual, recruit for a corrupt british m16 agent in the days leading up to local government taking full control of the canal zone.<br> in response to observations that the novel was a more light-hearted affair than his previous books, le carré replied that, "i think i'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. i guess you could say that, at sixty-five, when you've seen the world shape up as i have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."