The 39 Steps by John Buchan [BOOK CLUB EDITION / 1943]

The 39 Steps by John Buchan [RICHARD HANNAY #1]

BOOK CLUB EDITION [1943] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Red leatherette hardcover in very good condition.  Some light foxing along top of page edges [see last photo.]  and a bit of that musty old book smell.   Inside reads like new. 

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life-until he is accosted by a mysterious American, who warns him of an assassination plot that could completely destabalise the fragile political balance of Europe. Initially sceptical, Hannay nonetheless harbours the man-but one dayreturns home to find him murdered... An obvious suspect, Hannay flees to his native Scotland, pursued by both the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. His life and the security of Britan are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the 'thirty nine steps?'