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First edition in book form. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Son. Buchan's classic man-on-the-run novel, famously adapted to film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935. A very good copy, neat gift inscription to front free endpaper, and small stamp of previous owner, front hinge cracked but solid, slight wear to extremities, spine slightly faded, some very faint marking to covers.

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.