Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842
by Fraser, George MacDonald
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0257667997
- ISBN 13
- 9780257667997
- Seller
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About This Item
Barrie & Jenkins; (1976). First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Fifth printing of the first UK edition, very good in a very good dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Slight spine slant, and a little wear to cloth at edges and spine ends. Canadian owner's stamp on title page. The jacket has one small place at the top of the rear panel where the black layer of paper is absent. The spine of the jacket is sunned, otherwise jacket colors are bright in the wraparound illustration. Slight wear at edges and corners of jacket. 3.95 pound price on jacket flap. Map of Kabul and the Khyber Pass on endpapers, notes and a glossary; 256 pages. The first of the Flashman Papers.
Synopsis
The first instalment of the Flashman Papers sees the fag-roasting rotter from Tom Brown's Schooldays commence his military career as a reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father's mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigan's Hussars. En route to Afghanistan, our hero hones his skills as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and amorist (mastering all 97 ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta), before being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic disaster, the Retreat from Kabul.
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- Bookseller
- Tulsa Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024376
- Title
- Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842
- Author
- Fraser, George MacDonald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0257667997
- ISBN 13
- 9780257667997
- Publisher
- Barrie & Jenkins; (1976)
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1969
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