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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, FIRST Edition, 1915. Designer full morocco leather binding with gilt titles to the spine and front board, black and terracotta leather onlays showing steps and an old fashioned street light, internally heavily tanned to the page edges. All end papers replaced. In a new cloth covered slipcase. 253pp, 2pp of adverts. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 7 � inches tall (book); 8 inches tall (slipcase). Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition. Page edges good condition top edges darkened, all heavily tanned. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs very good condition marbled. End papers very good condition marbled, new subsequently. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition heavily tanned with minor marks. Binding very good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1915 Binding: Hardback.

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.