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The 39 Steps
by BUCHAN, JOHN
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0701130083
- ISBN 13
- 9780701130084
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About This Item
London. UK: Chatto & Windus, 1985. First Thus. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Philip Hood. Type: Private Press London, Chatto& Windus, 1985. First Printing of this Edition. First Pub in 1915. Hardcover Quarto As New. No Dust Jacket. Illustrations by Philip Hood. 7.5" x 10" tall. 140 pages. Philip Hood has portrayed Hannay and his world in vivid paintings and drawings which perfectly capture the drama of the story. Binding of Blue cloth with sharp and bright gilt lettering on spine. illus and design pasted on front cover-illus of Hannay at the bottom of the steps. Typeset in 12 point Palatino, printed and bound in the Netherlands . A beautiful edition. The most famous of all thrillers, first published over 100 years ago and filmed three times, it remains a timeless and suspenseful mystery.suspense novel. John Buchan, 1875-1940, was a Scottish novelist and public servant who combined his public life career with writing thrillers, historical novels, histories and biographies. At his death he was Governor-General of Canada. The "Thirty-Nine Steps" was his first "shocker", as he called it. Chatto & Windus, London.
Synopsis
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028385
- Title
- The 39 Steps
- Author
- BUCHAN, JOHN
- Illustrator
- Philip Hood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0701130083
- ISBN 13
- 9780701130084
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London. UK
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 4to - over 9?" - 12" t
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, BRITISH; SUSPENSE; BLACK STONE (FICTITIOUS CULT); ENGLAND;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Mystery, British & Other Countries;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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