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?'