Author: BUCHAN, JOHN (LORD TWEEDSMUIR)
Title: The 39 Steps (the Thirty-Nine Steps)
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1943. Hard Cover. A 1943 American reprint edition of the gripping thriller by John Buchan. In this story, his protagonist Richard Hannay learns of a secret plot by sinister German spies to learn secrets of the Royal Navy just prior to World War I. He is forced to flee from London into the wilds of Scotland, where he learns more about the spies and their designs on British secrets. The author, the first Baron Tweedsmuir, later served as Governor General of Canada. His novel was followed by several sequels, and was made into various movies and a popular stage play. --- In dark red paper-covered boards with titling and decoration in gilt and black. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy though with slight chafing to cover edges.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall ; [6], 120 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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