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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. Octavo, [1-9] 10-253 [254: Ads], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue. First edition. The first Richard Hannay novel. Filmed memorably by Alfred Hitchcock. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), p. 81. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Hubin, p. 114. McCormick and Fletcher, Spy Fiction: A Connoisseur's Guide, pp. 40-41. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.), p. 10.
ADVENTURERS ALL...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Includes three novels, HUNTINGTONTOWER, JOHN McNAB and THE THREE HOSTAGES. The last of the three is a Richard Hannay novel.
THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES ...
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-ix] x [xi] xii-xiv [1-3] 4-324 [1-2] 3 [4]: ads [note: first leaf is a blank] + 64-page publisher's catalogue dated "12/11" at bottom of page 64 inserted at rear, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver and gold. First edition. Collects ten stories and ten poems. Two of the stories, "Space" and "The Grove of Ashtaroth," are "among Buchan's best work" - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 292. The UK edition includes three stories ("Streams of Water in the South," "The Riding of the Ninemileburn," and "The Rime of True Thomas") and two poems that were omitted from the later U.S. edition that added a story, "Fountainblue," not included in this UK edition. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-38. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 62. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 56-7. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-45. Bleiler (1978), p. 33. Reginald 02092.
THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES.
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1912. Octavo, p. [1-4: blank] [i-ix] x-xii [1-3] 4-298 [299-304: blank], original brownish-green cloth, stamped in dark brown and silver to front cover, stamped in dark brown to spine. First U.S. edition. Story collection. This copy stamped "sample copy" on the title page. This is a variant cloth binding of brownish-green as opposed to the usually observed blue cloth, no priority established. The U.S. edition collects eight stories and a poem. The U.K. edition collected 10 stories and 10 poems, the U.S. edition drops the stories "Streams of Water in the South," "The Riding of the Ninemileburn," and "The Rime of True Thomas" and adds the story "Fountainblue" as well as dropping two of the poems. Two of the stories included here "Space" and " The Grove of Ashtoroth" are considered by Bleiler in his Guide to Supernatural Fiction (#292) "among Buchan's very best work."
MOUNTAIN MEADOW.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xlviii [xlix-xlx] 1-276 [277] [278: blank], jacket painting by Rockwell Kent, original light green flecked cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green and red, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First U. S. edition. Published in the U. K. as SICK HEART RIVER (1941). The last adventure of Sir Edward Leithen, who leaves London and comes to America to search for a missing banker. The trail leads to Canada and the Artic Circle. Long introduction by Howard Swiggett of which Kirkus Review writes - "...a tribute to Buchan's contribution to literature, an analysis of the stories and their sources, and enough outline of character and plots to give the reader, newcomes to Buchan's work, not only thorough comprehension of Mountain Meadow, but the urge to go back to the earlier books." Hubin, p. 114.