Ursula Buchan - Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps - Signed First Edition Philosophy red text to spine marginally

red text to spine marginally faded

Dust-jacket a little rubbed and worn but with the colours bright and unfaded

regarded at the time as at the forefront of feminine verse

some marking to edges first and last few leaves and to the wraps

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Ursula Buchan - Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps - Signed First Edition Philosophy red text to spine marginallyBUCHAN, Ursula (1953). Beyond the Thirty Nine Steps. A Life of John Buchan. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 492; [12]. Publisher's grey cloth, silver titles to spine. Dust jacket designed by Holly Ovenden, with printed price of 25. Illustrated with three photographic suites. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine, as new copy.