Flashman’s Lady Signed by George Macdonald Fraser first edition 1977
London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd, 1977
8vo., red boards lettered in silver to spine with publisher’s device to foot; map endpapers showing the Pirate Islands, The Batang Lupar Expedition, and Madagascar; in the pictorial dustwrapper featuring a wraparound image by Barbosa; pp. [v], 6-328; small white mark to upper board; compression to spine tips; faint spotting to the fore-edge, otherwise a clean copy; the wrapper near-fine, with none of the fading to the spine often seen in other examples.
First edition, this copy neatly signed by the author in blue ink to the title page.
The sixth novel in the Flashman series. Here, Flashman plays cricket at Lords, travels to Singapore, aids in a kidnap rescue, and ultimately becomes the advisor and lover to Queen Ranavalona I. All in a day’s work for the titular protagonist. Unusual signed, and with the spine unfaded.