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Original blue cloth boards with black lettering. Darkened spine with wear on the spine ends with light fray. Wear to the edges and light stains on the cover. Lean to the book and hinge is weak. Clean end papers. Browned contents yet clean.253 pp with 2 pages of advertisements at the rear of the book.

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.