The Three Hostages - Midwinter; certain travellers in old England - John MacNab
Title: 3 Separate works by John Buchan - The Three Hostages - Midwinter; certain travellers in old England - John MacNab
Author: John Buchan
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., London
Date: 1924, 1925, 1925
Hardback Editions
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The Three Hostages - 1st Edition - Published 1924; 319pp - This is the fourth novel in which Buchan's best known character Richard Hannay from The Thirty-Nine Steps is the main protagonist. The novel is set in the heart of 1920s urban civilisation ending on the crags in the Scottish Highlands.
Midwinter; certain travellers in old England - 1925 Reprint (first published in 1923); 311pp - Regarded by many as one of the finest historical novels ever written, Midwinter tells the tale of Alastair Maclean, confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who embarks on a secret mission to raise support for the Jacobite cause in the west of England.
John MacNab - 2nd reprint 1925 (first published in 1925); 320pp - John Macnab is one Buchan’s lighter works of fictions and often regarded as his second most famous novel after The Thirty-nine Steps. Three high-flying men-a barrister, a cabinet minister, and a banker-are suffering from boredom. They concoct a plan to cure it. They inform three Scottish estates that they will poach from each two stags and a salmon in a given time. They sign collectively as "John McNab" and await the responses.
Condition Notes
The Three Hostages - 1st Edition - A good edition with some wear and tear to the top and bottom of the spine and some looseness at the rear end-paper. However all the text pages remain bright and clean throughout.
Midwinter; certain travellers in old England - 1925 Reprint - A very good and clean copy with clean and bright text pages thropughout.
John MacNab - 2nd reprint 1925 - there is a repaired split of the front cover board and the spine but otherwise the book remains well bound with clean and bright text pages throughout.