Les 7 boules de cristal

New edition of the twelfth album in the Tintin comic book series.
62-plate comic strip in full colour.

Publisher's boards with colour illustrated covers, saffron yellow cloth spine, faint rubbing to the margins of the boards.

Exceptional presentation copy signed by Hergé, with an original ink drawing of Tintin and Snowy with his bone, on the verso of the flyleaf : "A Roland Menard, en toute sympathie. Hergé."

The highly prolific voice actor Roland Ménard served as narrator for the very first animated adaptations of The Adventures of Tintin, broadcast between 1959 and 1964 with no fewer than 102 episodes bringing eight celebrated albums to the screen: The Shooting Star, Destination Moon, The Secret of the Unicorn, Red Rackham's Treasure, The Black Island, The Crab with the Golden Claws, and The Calculus Affair.

In 1969, he would once again take on the role of narrator for Tintin and the Temple of the Sun, the first feature-length Tintin film adaptation which encompasses both the eponymous album and the present one, The Seven Crystal Balls. It was most likely on this occasion that Hergé expressed his gratitude with this exceptional copy bearing an original drawing of the famous quiffed hero and his faithful companion.