HERGÉ [Georges REMI] (author and illustrator). The Cigars of the Pharaoh. The Adventures of Tintin.

HERGÉ [Georges REMI] (author and illustrator). The Cigars of the Pharaoh. The Adventures of Tintin. London; Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1972.

Small folio; publisher's laminated pictorial boards, as issued; pp. [ii] + 62; illustrated throughout in colour in cartoon-strip format; a near fine copy, both externally and internally, with two small and unobtrusive scratches (6mm and 4mm) to lower cover, without inscriptions or marks of ownership.
Second U.K. edition, published just one year after the first. One of the hardest titles in first U.K. printing. This title was the fourth published in French. In it Tintin and Snowy, travelling in Egypt, discover a pharaoh's tomb filled with dead Egyptologists and boxes of cigars. They travel across India and Arabia to unravel the complexities of a drug-smuggling enterprise.

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