The Thirty Nine Steps

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1993) by John Buchan – Oxford University Press
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John Buchan’s classic spy thriller gets the respectable Oxford treatment in this 1993 reprint – but don’t worry, our copy’s too battered to feel posh. The Thirty-Nine Steps is the original man-on-the-run story: Richard Hannay, bored stiff in Edwardian London, suddenly finds himself accused of murder and tangled in a conspiracy that threatens national security. Fast-paced, stiff-upper-lipped, and full of train-hopping, coded messages, and pre-WWI paranoia.

This edition may once have looked scholarly, but now it’s more “left at a bus stop in 1997.” Slight foxing, cracked binding, and a cover that’s seen things – just how we like it.

Crappy Old Books – Literature that’s lived a little.

Virtually as new.

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