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Mr. Standfast.

BUCHAN John.

London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1919. Advance proof copy. 8vo. Publisher's original plain brown wraps, slightly spotted with minor edgewear. Internally clean, unifom light toning to page block. A most unusual and scarce advance proof copy of Mr. Standfast, one of Buchan's scarcer Richard Hannay stories. Protected by a tailor-made brown cloth clamshell case. The secret agent Hannay has also been acknowledged by author Ian Fleming as an inspiration for his own spy Commander James Bond [Gilbert, page 616]. Item #36458

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"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

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