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The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan
1940
Hodder and Stoughton : London
8" by 5.5"
254pp
SUMMARY
A later impression of John Buchan's important adventure novel, complete with a dust wrapper.
An Important Work,Publishers' Original Binding,With Dustwrapper
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 0.5 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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EU Postage: £ 13.99
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DESCRIPTION
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 has been adapted multiple times across film, radio, television and theatre, including a celebrated Hitchcock adaptation.
Written by John Buchan (1875-1940), a Scottish novelist and politician best known for this work and his other adventure fiction.
Complete with a dust wrapper.
This is the fifteenth impression of this work.
CONDITION
In the publisher's original full cloth binding, with a clipped dust wrapper. Externally a trifle rubbed, with a few spots to the spine and wear and discolouration to the head of the spine, which is a little cocked. Dust wrapper has a few large chips to the head of the spine and cover, with a smaller chip to the base of the cover. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.
Overall Condition: Very Good Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
We only sell books in this condition where their rarity or value makes them
attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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