The Thirty-Nine Steps
by Buchan, John
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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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. First edition, first printing. Published by William Blackwood and Sons in Edinburgh and London, 1915. This is a very near fine rebound copy. Rebound in calf, with fine gilt titling, it is highly presentable. The front paste down has been replaced, now with a dark grey card. The inserted title page… Read more about this item Item Price
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William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1915. FIRST EDITION. (7.5 x 5 inches). Some minor browning to page edges, as is often the case with this title, but less so than usually found. Publishers blue cloth which is rubbed and bumped to the edges and has a white mark to the front panel but overall a very good copy. Item Price
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William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London. 1915. FIRST EDITION. (7.5 x 5 inches). Some minor browning to page edges, as is often the case with this title, but less so than usually found. Finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco, raised bands, gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Overall a very good, bright copy… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A later impression of John Buchan's important adventure novel, complete with a dust wrapper. This adventure novel was first published in 1915, and is the first of Buchan's novel featuring his hero Richard Hannay. It is set in 1914 with war in Europe looming, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A first edition copy of John Buchan's celebrated espionage novel. A thriller, which follows the 'man on the run' Richard Hannay just before the outbreak of the First World War. Originally serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, 'The Thirty Nine Steps' is the first… Read more about this item Item Price
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London; New York: J. M. Dent & Sons LTD; E. P. Dutton & Co Inc., 1964. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Edward Ardizzone. Edward Ardizzone's illustrated edition of John Buchan's important adventure novel, a smart edition. The first edition to be illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, a noted painter and war artist who is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1935. 253pp, [1]. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in black, pictorial dustwrapper. Binding cocked, light shelf-wear, wrapper worn, marked, and sunned, loss to spine panel. Occasional spotting An edition of Buchan's classic adventure novel printed to tie-in with the release in 1935 of Alfred Hitchcock's celebrated cinematic adaptation. . Seventeenth impression. 8vo.… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: J.M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1964. First with Edward Ardizzone's illustrations. Hardcover. very good/very good. Octavo. (9" x 5 1/2") 145pp and four pages of ads. Bound in tan cloth with color pictorial dust jacket. Color frontispiece and line drawings in text by Edward Ardizzone. Price clipped dust jacket. Very nice copy. Light edge wear to dust… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Thirty Nine Steps
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1938 Reprint of the first novel in the Richard Hannay series. Made into the movie of the same name in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat. There is a 1 inch closed tear to the front dustjacket panel on the top edge next to the spine. The rear panel also has a 1 inch long closed tear next… Read more about this item Item Price
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1915. [in light brown boards] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown paper-covered boards with yapped edges, printed in black.
First (Colonial) Edition of Buchan's best-known book, the classic mystery that has withstood the test of time both as a book and as a film. It features a British mining… Read more about this item Item Price
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1915. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. General rubbing, hint of dampstaining to the rear board (not affecting the text), and light foxing to the pastedowns else near fine, lacking the rare dustwrapper (no jacketed copies have appeared at auction in the last quarter century). The first book featuring adventurer Richard Hannay, and a… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. First printing. Near fine.. First edition in book form of this "man on the run" spy novel, in which Richard Hannay escapes to Scotland just ahead of accusations he has murdered a secret agent. First published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine the same year, this thriller landed in the middle of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thirty-Nine Steps (World's Classics Ser.)
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- 1991
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1991 Reprint, First printing thus. Page edges tanned, spine lt sunned, else as new, unread. 8/09 fc. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Item Price
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, CAN
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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Probable First Edition . Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 231 pp, GHD colophon on title page, copyright 1915, 231 pp, small bookseller's label on rear pastedown; little wear to extremities, especially lower board tips, minor rubbing to spine, minor bumping to upper board tips,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
by Buchan, John
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- 1985
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, CAN
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London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good+. 1985. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0701130083 . 140 p. 26 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards, with colour paste-down illustration. Light foxing to the top of the text block. Inside pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. An illustrated of the classic novel by John Buchan,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
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- 1966
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London: Pan Books # G218 17th Printing, 1966 ----------paperback. A Richard Hannay adventure. Old pen price on front cover, faint spine crease although appears unread, store stamp on page block bottom edge, a near fine copy.. .. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by "Peff" / Samuel J. Peffer (front cover). Note: our prices on Biblio… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
by BUCHAN, John
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Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1985. FINE condition. HARDCOVER. 1985. AS NEW, bound in navy blue cloth with gold gilt titles and dramatic pictoral paste down on front cover. Square and tight, UNREAD, issued without dust jacket. Originally published in 1915, this beautifully packaged edition of the classic thriller is elaborately illustrated by Philip Hood. … Read more about this item Item Price
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-Polygon (2011)-. Fifth impression since 2011. Paperback. Spine uncreased. Fine. The Thirty-Nine Steps 9781846971983 Item Price
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