George MacDonald Fraser: Flashman. First Edition/First Printing. Fine & Very Rare!!

This is a first edition & first printing of Flashman: The Flashman Papers 1839-1842  by George MacDonald Fraser, published by Herbert Jenkins in 1969.

The book itself is in Fine condition with no inscriptions, the page edge block is clean and there is no foxing at all.

The protected dust jacket is in Near Fine condition, totally unfaded and not price clipped. One small closed tear to rear top of dust jacket spine.

This is the best copy of this rare book that you are ever likely to find!! 

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.