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Seller's Description:
F- in F- jacket. F-/F-. 8vo. original red boards gilt (some leaf edge spotting & offsetting to endpapers, else clean & bright) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed, a few spots to foldovers); pp. 480, with endpaper maps. A near fine copy.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Collins, London, UK. 1982. 479 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Part one In his haste to leave New Orleans and avoid arrest, Flashman agrees to accompany Susie Willinck and her company of prostitutes westwards on the California Gold Rush; Willinck forces him into marriage before the journey. Despite being attacked by a band of Comanche on the journey, they reach Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Flashman absconds with $2, 000 made from selling one of the prostitutes, Cleonie, to Navajos. Flashman falls in with a group of travellers but he discovers them to be scalp-hunters, when they attack a band of Apaches. Flashman joins in but refuses to take any scalps or rape captive women, and when the scalp-hunters are attacked by the remainder of the tribe, he is saved and marries Sonsee-Array, the daughter of chief, Mangas Coloradas. He eventually escapes and is saved by Kit Carson on the Jornada del Muerto. EB; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
