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Octavo, [1-9] 10-253 [254: Ads], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue. The first Richard Hannay novel. Filmed memorably by Alfred Hitchcock. [Reference: Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), p. 81. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Hubin, p. 114. McCormick and Fletcher, Spy Fiction: A Connoisseur's Guide, pp. 40-41. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.), p. 10]. End papers and prelims tanned, some foxing to rear end papers, some rubs to corner tips and spine ends and gutters, a very good copy. (28460).

The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a knack for getting out of sticky situations.