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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS

THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS

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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS

by John Buchan

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New York: Doran, 1915. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING OF BUCHAN'S ENDURING MASTERPIECE. Buchan, an accomplished author and statesman, is best known today for this classic espionage adventure novel. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Slight lean to boards and some dulling to spine lettering; former owner's name else unmarked. A generally clean, fresh copy in very good condition. The first of Buchan's Richard Hannay adventures, this work was made into a classic Alfred Hitchcock film and more recently a popular Broadway show.

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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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Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA US (US)
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Title
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
Author
John Buchan
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
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Edition
1st American Edition
Publisher
Doran
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1915
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