Flashman
by Fraser, George macDonald
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- BOOK VERY GOOD+/JACKET VERY GOOD+
- Seller
-
LEXINGTON, South Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Books Plus, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19652
- Title
- Flashman
- Author
- Fraser, George macDonald
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - BOOK VERY GOOD+
- Jacket Condition
- JACKET VERY GOOD+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Herbert Jenkins Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾""
Terms of Sale
Books Plus, LLC
About the Seller
Books Plus, LLC
About Books Plus, LLC
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...