Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser - 1977

London - Barrie and Jenkins, 1977 Book. VERY GOOD INDEED. Hardcover. First edition.. A first edition of thesixth novel in George MacDonald's renowned Flashman series. From the Flashman Papers, 1842-1845. Featuring the original illustrated dustwrapper and maps to the endpapers. In 1966 Fraser got the idea to turn Flashman, a fictional coward and bully originally created by Thomas Hughes in Tom Brown's School Days, into a hero and wrote a novel around his exploits. The book proved popular and led to a series of further novels, presented as packets of memoirs written by the nonagenarian Flashman looking back on his days as a hero of the British Army during the 19th century. The series is notable for the accuracy of the historical settings and praise from critics. P. G. Wodehouse said of Flashman, If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman. Condition: In original cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, cloth is generally sound, though with some shelfwear. Dustwrapper has a little sunning, and chip to the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound, bright and generally clean, aside fromsome spotting to the textblock edge and endpapers. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED with aVERY GOOD INDEEDdustwrapper..