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Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine (written under the pseudonym "H. De V.") and The All Story Weekly in the summer of 1915. Original blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering on the boards and spine. Some fading and marking/stains to the boards and a darkened spine. Wear the spine edges. Clean end papers and contents. Browned pages. Hinges is weak on the tile page. Advertisements of Blackwood Shillings Editions of Popular Novels at rear of the book. 18.4 x 12.1 cm.

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.