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Hodder and Stoughton, London., 1919. First edition. Octavo. 412 pages. The third of the Richard Hannay novels.Small contemporary (1920) ownership inscription on front free endpaper. On the front cover there are two small insect holes, the smaller of which continues through the text block to about the middle of the book. Covers slightly bumped at edges. Very good in very good, rubbed, nicked and chipped dustwrapper with a few small puncture holes to front panel.
Synopsis
Mr. Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BUCHANJO014659
- Title
- Mr. Standfast.
- Author
- BUCHAN, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton, London.
- Date Published
- 1919
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