When his beautiful and brainless wife Elspeth is abducted from Singapore by a half-breed ex-Etonian millionaire, Harry Flashman sets out on an odyssey of reluctant pursuit
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Praise for the Flashman series
Hilariously funny. The New York Times Book Review
Great dirty fun! Grand Rapids Press
The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next Wonderful and scandalous. Publishers Weekly
Raises dastardliness to the level of an art One of the most amusing and sardonic novels I have ever read! Omaha World
As irreverent and picaresque as Tom Jones and always more dramatic Flashman is a one-man demolition squad! Chicago Today
Marvelously entertaining A delight! Providence Journal"
Praise for the Flashman series
"Hilariously funny."--The New York Times Book Review
"Great dirty fun!"--Grand Rapids Press
"The most entertaining anti-hero in a long time... Moves from one ribald and deliciously corrupt episode to the next... Wonderful and scandalous."--Publishers Weekly
"Raises dastardliness to the level of an art... One of the most amusing and sardonic novels I have ever read!"--Omaha World
"As irreverent and picaresque as Tom Jones and always more dramatic... Flashman is a one-man demolition squad!"--Chicago Today
"Marvelously entertaining... A delight!"--Providence Journal
Fantastic new jackets for a Spring 2003 celebration of 1970's classics first published by Flamingo.
Other titles in the series include
If I die in a combat zone - Tim o'Brien
Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer
High Rise - J G Ballard
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Seller: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: USED Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. First American Edition. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Tape present on exterior of boards, top and bottom, with damage inside boards from removal. Cocked. Rear end pages missing, but all text appears to be present. Some water damage. A good reading copy. Seller Inventory # 616035
Seller: SustainableBooks.com, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Poor. Book is Poor condition. Good for reading, not pretty to look at! The pages and cover are soiled and/or yellowed, worn throughout. Seller Inventory # 0394501357-2-6
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0394501357I3N01
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stated first American edition. The book has uneven sunfading to the spine, loose hinges, and minor separation of the binding from the spine plate, otherwise the book is in very good condition with crisp, unmarked pages, a tight binding, and a strong, clean cover. The dustjacket has significant sunfading to the spine, mild rubbing and surface scratching to both covers, a tiny bump and hole near the top edge of the back cover, and an overall uneven toning to the jacket, otherwise the dustjacket is in good condition, intact and attractive, and is now in an archival protective mylar. Seller Inventory # 1034344
Seller: Mark Henderson, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First American Edition. Book. Seller Inventory # 051178
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 330 pages; 1978 Alfred A. Knopf HC/DJ 1st American edition. Soundly bound and clean in original quarter green cloth backed spine and cream paper covered boards. With color pictorial dust jacket retaining the $8.95 issue price to the unclipped front flap. Mild shelf scrape top edge of the boards. Jacket with lightgeneral toning to surfaces and light shelf wear and a few tiny nick at edges. Jacket spine a tifle sunned. Jacket front flap with short stress creases to the corners. VG/VG. Seller Inventory # 53870
Seller: J. F. Whyland Books, Jeffersonville, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing of the first American edition (stated). Would be fine but for former owner's bookplate with name blacked out affixed to half title page. Also previous owner's blindstamp impressed on same page. Dust jacket is fine. Seller Inventory # 000278
Seller: Barner Books, New Paltz, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with jacket; First American Edition;Interior is clean and unmarked; Binding is solid. Seller Inventory # 111322005
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First American edition. 330pp. Octavo. 1/4 green cloth over lightly decorated beige boards. Title stamped in silver on spine. In a mildly soiled dust jacket. The sixth of the Flashman novels. Beginning with an encounter with Tom Brown and ending in enslavement in Madagascar. This book is unique among the Flashman series for containing extracts from the diary of his wife, Elspeth. Seller Inventory # 65085
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Seller Inventory # 017404