Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald FRASER - 1975

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975. 336pp. Red boards, silver lettering on the spine. map endpapers.Spot stains on the fore-edge, othewrise internally clean, unmarked. Unclipped wrapround pictorial jacket has a faded spine, closed tears to the front panel. in mylar sleeve. "Flashman in the Great Game describes Flashy's assignment in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857-58, which took him to palaces, native barracks, embattled garrisons, jungles, and rivers; found him romancing a beautiful but treacherous queen; and forced him numerous times to find a way to narrowly escape death. Despite consistent acts of cowardice, Flashy is knighted and awarded the prestigious Victoria Cross.". First English Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975 G+/VG-. 8vo. blue rexine ex-library with RSMs, labels, notation, tape marks etc to outer leaves) in dustwrapper (a little rubbed, spine sunning, slightly trimmed with replacement flaps); pp. 336, with endpaper maps. A good reading copy in a presentable jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. G+/VG-.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. 340pp. Orange decorated boards. red lettering on the spine. map endpapers. Previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown, othewrise internally clean, unmarked. Price-clipped wrapround pictorial jacket has a lightly faded spine, otherwise fine. "Flashman in the Great Game describes Flashy's assignment in India during the Great Mutiny of 1857-58, which took him to palaces, native barracks, embattled garrisons, jungles, and rivers; found him romancing a beautiful but treacherous queen; and forced him numerous times to find a way to narrowly escape death. Despite consistent acts of cowardice, Flashy is knighted and awarded the prestigious Victoria Cross.". First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo.

Barrie & Jenkins Limited, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The jacket is worn and torn. The boards are in a very good condition. Internally clean with minor marks. Well bound. r* 2021/02/25. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1975 VG+/VG-. 8vo. original red boards gilt (some marks to leaf edges) in dustwrapper (some wear to spine ends & corners, neatly repaired); pp. 336, with endpaper maps. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG-.

London: Barrie & Jenkins Limited, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Light edgewear to jacket. Some light foxing on top edge of text block near spine. A light crease on rear fold of jacket. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 336 pp.

E-301: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1975. 336 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 is at Balmoral Castle as a guest of Queen Victoria; he meets Lord Palmerston, who recruits him to go to Jhansi in India and investigate rumours of a rebellion among the Sepoys. Flashman again encounters Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev, and the Russian tries to kill him while hunting. Once in Jhansi he meets the queen, Rani Lakshmibai. He listens to her grievances against the British Raj and attempts to seduce her. Shortly afterwards he is nearly garroted by Thuggees and assumes the disguise of Makarram Khan, a Hasanzai of the Black Mountain, and takes… Read More

London: Barrie & Jenkins 1975. 8vo. First edition, 336 pp. Hardcover in pictorial jacket. Minor chipping and rubbing to jacket, with creasing/curling to flaps and fading to its spine. Some bumping to book extremities. Internally clean. Jacket not price-clipped. 0214201201 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1975.

Barrie & Jenkins. First Printing. No inscriptions or other marks. Un-price clipped, unfaded DJ in archival cover, minor edge wear. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1975.

Barrie & Jenkins, 1975-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.

Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).