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The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good+. First Edition, first printing of the British edition. Light blue cloth boards with navy lettering on spine and front cover. Starting inner hinges. Interior is clean and unmarked; pages toned. 253 plus [2] pages advertising. With *facsimile* dust jacket. The first book edition of The Thirty-Nine Steps, published in October 1915 following its serialization that summer in All-Story Weekly and Blackwood's Magazine.
Synopsis
JOHN BUCHAN was born in Perth in 1875, the son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, and educated at Glasgow. He gained a first at Oxford University, where he began writing, producing two volumes of essays, four novels and two collections of stories and poems before the age of twenty-five. He worked briefly as a lawyer, then served as a private secretary in the colonial administration of South Africa after the Boer War. During the war he worked both as a journalist and at Britain's War Propaganda Bureau, eventually becoming Director of Information. He published his most popular novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps , in 1915, and it has never since been out of print. In 1935 Buchan was elevated to the peerage, becoming Baron Tweedmuir of Elsfield, and later that year was appointed Governor General of Canada by King George V. He died on February 11, 1940.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014075
- Title
- The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Author
- John Buchan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh and London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
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