HERGÉ [Georges REMI] (author and illustrator). The Seven Crystal Balls. The Adventures of Tintin.

HERGÉ [Georges REMI] (author and illustrator). The Seven Crystal Balls. The Adventures of Tintin. London; Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1962.

Small folio; original red cloth-backed pictorial boards, pictorial mid-blue endpapers; pp. [ii] + 61 + [i]; with striking coloured illustrations throughout in cartoon-strip format; a near fine copy in unusually clean, bright and sharp condition, with slight surface abrasions to spine ends, tiny wear to forecorners and mild edge rubbing; internally fine with a neat and unobtrusive name to front free endpaper; increasingly scarce in this condition.
First U.K. edition. This is the thirteenth adventure in the Adventures of Tintin series and is regarded by fans as one of the best in the canon and also the most frightening. The plot involves the abduction of Professor Calculus, which seems to be connected to a mysterious illness affecting an archaeological expedition to Peru. Tintin, Captain Haddock and Snowy investigate. As with The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure Herge conceived this storyline as a two-parter, which is continued in Prisoners of the Sun. In this work a mystery is outlined which, in its sequel, the characters undertake a mission to solve.

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