Hergé – Tintin, Les Cigares du Pharaon – 1955 First Edition

A very bright first edition of this Tintin adventure set in the wider Middle East, with the eponymous hero and his dog Snowy travelling through Egypt, Arabia and India.

This is the first colour edition, in the original French, published in 1955. The book was first serialised in the early 1930s in black and white.

Published by Casterman, cloth-backed boards with yellow spine. Blue pictorial endpapers.  In very good condition. Minor rubbing to boards and slight bumps to spine ends. No writing inside. Binding tight and square. 62 pages.