First UK Edition 1977 Flashman's Lady 1842-45 George Macdonald Fraser HC w/DJ

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Barrie & Jenkins Ltd. 1977. 328 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Flashman meets Tom Brown, a former acquaintance from Rugby School, and agrees to play cricket at Lord's Cricket Ground for a team made up of Old Rugbeians. Following separate threats from a bookmaker and a Duke, Flashman accompanies Don Solomon Haslam—a businessman from the East Indies—Elspeth and his father-in-law on a trip to Singapore. Once there, Haslam reveals himself to be the pirate Sulieman Usman, and he kidnaps Elspeth. Flashman reluctantly gives chase in the company of James Brooke to rescues her, but is himself captured by Usman. He escapes from Usman's ship at Madagascar, but is captured and enslaved by the Malagasy, eventually becoming military advisor and lover to Queen Ranavalona I. He and his wife finally escape from the island during an Anglo-French naval attack. First UK Edition 1977 Flashman's Lady 1842-45 George Macdonald Fraser HC w/DJ Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is Flashman's Lady From The Flashman Papers 1842-1845 Edited and Arranged by George MacDonald Fraser Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Barrie & Jenkins Ltd. 1977. 328 pgs. First Edition/First Printing.  DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present.  Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Flashman meets Tom Brown, a former acquaintance from Rugby School, and agrees to play cricket at Lord's Cricket Ground for a team made up of Old Rugbeians. Following separate threats from a bookmaker and a Duke, Flashman accompanies Don Solomon Haslam—a businessman from the East Indies—Elspeth and his father-in-law on a trip to Singapore. Once there, Haslam reveals himself to be the pirate Sulieman Usman, and he kidnaps Elspeth. Flashman reluctantly gives chase in the company of James Brooke to rescues her, but is himself captured by Usman. He escapes from Usman's ship at Madagascar, but is captured and enslaved by the Malagasy, eventually becoming military advisor and lover to Queen Ranavalona I. He and his wife finally escape from the island during an Anglo-French naval attack. FROM WIKIPEDIA: The Flashman Papers is a series of novels and short stories written by George MacDonald Fraser, the first of which was published in 1969. The books centre on the exploits of the fictional protagonist Harry Flashman. He is a cowardly British soldier, rake and cad who is placed in a series of real historical incidents between 1839 and 1894. While the incidents and much of the detail in the novels have a factual background, Flashman's actions in the stories are either fictional, or Fraser uses the actions of unidentified individuals and assigns them to Flashman. Flashman is a minor character in the 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days; Hughes' version of the character is a bully at Rugby School who is expelled for drunkenness. The character was then developed by Fraser, and appeared in the 1969 novel Flashman. Fraser went on to write a total of eleven novels and one collection of short stories featuring the character. During the course of Fraser's novels, Flashman goes from his expulsion from school into the army. Although he is a coward who tries to run away from any danger, he is involved in many famous military episodes from the 19th century, often taking actions that cause or affect subsequently famous events, such as his flatulence affecting the Charge of the Light Brigade,[a] or being the person who probably shot George Armstrong Custer. When circumstances run against him and he is forced to fight, he often does so bravely and capably. Despite his cowardice and his attempts to flee, he becomes a decorated war hero and rises to the rank of brigadier-general. He also meets people who either were notable at the time—such as Benjamin Disraeli and the Duke of Wellington—or who became well-known after Flashman met them—such as Abraham Lincoln. Flashman either has, or tries to have, sex with most of the female characters: by the end of the ninth book he estimates that he has had sex with 480 women. The publication sequence of the books differs from the fictional chronology, with the timeframe of some books overlapping. One of the novels, Flashman and the Redskins, is in two parts: part one takes place in 1849–50, while the second covers 1875–76. Although the main series of stories finishes in 1894, Flashman lives on until 1915 and appears in his late 80s in another Fraser novel, Mr American. OUR MISSION STATEMENT:  Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. We understand that you have more choices than ever to buy books, so we strive to provide the best service,  accurate descriptions, the cheapest shipping and the best customer service in the realm of bookselling. 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Author: George Macdonald Fraser

Binding: Hardcover

Character Family: Flashman's Lady

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

Language: English

Original/Facsimile: Original

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins

Region: Europe

Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Historical Fiction; Action, Adventure, Flashman, Flashman's Lady, From The Flashman Papers 1842-1845

Subject: Literature & Fiction

Topic: Historical Fiction; Action, Adventure

Year Printed: 1977