Description
HarperCollins Publishers, Published 2014. Hardcover, 256 pp.; 23 cm; facsimile of the 1969 Herbert Jenkins first edition, number line "1"; map endpapers by William Bromage.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with silver lettering on spine; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket reproduces A. E. Barbosa's original 1969 design (a cavalry officer in full dress with lancers behind); front flap retains the Herbert Jenkins imprint and SBN, with GBP 14.99 / CAN $28.99 price. Jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing along edges, small crease at lower corner of rear panel, light rubbing to black band at head, and mild surface and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. First of George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman Papers novels, in HarperCollins' 2014 facsimile of the 1969 first edition, with the original jacket art and endpaper maps of Kabul and the Khyber Pass. Fraser presents the book as the memoir of Harry Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby in Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays, now a cowardly, womanizing Victorian soldier writing in old age. This first packet follows him from his expulsion into Lord Cardigan's hussars, to India, and as a reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan through the 1842 Retreat from Kabul, with walk-on parts for Wellington, Dr Arnold and Akbar Khan. Includes Fraser's explanatory note, historical notes and a glossary. Fraser (1925-2008), a journalist and screenwriter whose credits include The Three Musketeers and Octopussy, wrote twelve Flashman books over 36 years.