The 39 Steps [EASTON PRESS’ “READER’S CHOICE SELECTIONS” ILLUSTRATED BY EDWARD GOREY]

Buchan, John. The 39 Steps [EASTON PRESS’ “READER’S CHOICE SELECTIONS” ILLUSTRATED BY EDWARD GOREY]. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2016. First edition thus. Octavo (8-3/4″ x 6-3/4″). Brown leather decorated in gilt. A.e.g. A fine, as new copy (now out-of-print), still in publisher’s shrinkwrap and the original shipping carton.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It was serialized in All-Story Weekly issues of 5 and 12 June 1915, and in Blackwood’s Magazine (credited to “H. de V.”) between July and September 1915, before being published in book form in October of that year. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a knack for getting himself out of tricky situations.

This work is best known from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 film adaptation. Fine. (54436) $95