![]() ![]() The usual binding for this book is light blue cloth over flimsy boards, with lettering in black on the front cover and spine (very rarely encountered with its pictorial dust jacket). This was a cheaply-produced wartime book (price one shilling), printed on cheap paper that has always browned, with the result that it is now usually encountered in miserable condition. The tale was of course the basis for one of Alfred Hitchcock's most highly-regarded early films, released in 1935 there have been three other releases, the most recent (2008) for TV. STANDFAST, THE THREE HOSTAGES and THE ISLAND OF SHEEP). ![]() This was the first of Buchan's five mysteries to feature the Richard Hannay (the others being GREENMANTLE, MR. It features a British mining engineer from the southern Africa colonies, bored on vacation in London, who inadvertently learns too much about a German plot, and flees to his homeland of Scotland to avoid his pursuers. First (Colonial) Edition of Buchan's best-known book, the classic mystery that has withstood the test of time both as a book and as a film. Original light brown paper-covered boards with yapped edges, printed in black. ![]() Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. ![]()
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