John Buchan — The Thirty-Nine Steps

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. Cloth. The third impression of John Buchan's celebrated espionage thriller, in a facsimile of the original dust wrapper. The third impression. Originally serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, 'The Thirty Nine Steps' is the first of five novels featuring Buchan's hero Richard Hannay.'The Thirty-Nine Steps' by John Buchan is a suspenseful novel which follows the stiff-upper-lipped Hannay as he attempts to evade the same fate as a man called Scudder, who is murdered in his flat. This work is one of the earliest examples of the "man-on-the-run" trope which became a standard feature of many thrillers since.In 1935 Alfred Hitchcock directed an adaptation of the novel, starring Friedrich Robert Donat. Hitchcock's adaptation was deemed a "masterpiece" by Orson Welles and was rated the fourth best British film of the twentieth century by British Film Institute in 1999.In the publisher's original cloth, with a facsimile of the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth with the original facsimile dust wrapper. Externally, damp staining to the front board, and fading to the spine. The wrap is a facsimile, with archival repairs to the verso. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and clean pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.