John Buchan — Sir Walter Scott

London, Cassell and Company Ltd, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Buchan's biography of the famous Romantic poet Sir Walter Scott. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to the front free end paper, with ink inscription dated 1932. Ink inscription to the rear paste down. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940), was a Scottish novelist and historian, who wrote many biographies. This biography concerns Sir Walter Scott, the Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright, whose work had a major impact on European and American literature. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart, with very light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first few and last couple of pages. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .