George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman in the Great Game
London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1975 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the fifth Flashman novel by George MacDonald Fraser, following Flashman's involvement in the Sepoy Mutiny. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.The fifth Flashman novel, in this work MacDonald Fraser details the career of Flashman following on from his expulsion from Rugby School in 'Tom Brown's School Days' by Thomas Hughes.Fraser's series explores Flashman later in life, where he lives in as a Victorian soldier climbing the ranks of the British Army, while remaining the same drunk, liar, thief, and cheat, that often runs away from danger rather than facing it head on. This volume covers the years 1856-1858.With a former owner's inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, dated 1976. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip tail, otherwise exceptionally bright. Inscription to front free endpaper. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip. Light edgewear to back strip head and tail, with small closed tear to head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only one or two spots. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
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Keywords: George MacDonald Fraser Flashman Historical fiction Flashman None