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The Thirty-Nine Steps
de Buchan, John
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fine+ with no dust jacket
- Librería
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Fine+ with no dust jacket. 1988. Special Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Covered in black leather, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on spine, gilt design on covers, paste-down on front cover and all edges gilt with decorated endpapers. Edward Gorey illustrations first appeared in the Diogenes Swiss edition published in 1967. . Pristine, unmarked and tight. Excellent condition. . Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces Series. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 177 pp .
Sinopsis
JOHN BUCHAN was born in Perth in 1875, the son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, and educated at Glasgow. He gained a first at Oxford University, where he began writing, producing two volumes of essays, four novels and two collections of stories and poems before the age of twenty-five. He worked briefly as a lawyer, then served as a private secretary in the colonial administration of South Africa after the Boer War. During the war he worked both as a journalist and at Britain's War Propaganda Bureau, eventually becoming Director of Information. He published his most popular novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps , in 1915, and it has never since been out of print. In 1935 Buchan was elevated to the peerage, becoming Baron Tweedmuir of Elsfield, and later that year was appointed Governor General of Canada by King George V. He died on February 11, 1940.
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- Librería
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 20310
- Título
- The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Autor
- Buchan, John
- Ilustrador
- Edward Gorey
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine+ with no dust jacket
- Edición
- Special Edition. 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Franklin Library
- Lugar de publicación
- Pennsylvania
- Fecha de publicación
- 1988
- Palabras clave
- Suspense, WWI, Thriller, British writers
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Miembro de Biblio desde 2008
Palatine, Illinois
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Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
