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The Free Fishers.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth in pictorial jacket. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6 to backstrip. No inscriptions, some spotting/toning. Very good in like jacket with chips to crown, spine tanned, a few small strips of tape applied to extremities. Historical adventure set in bleak Yorkshire; A Minister and Professor of Logic at St Andrews University finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue that threatens the country. His boyhood allegiance to a brotherhood of deep-sea fishermen involves him and his handsome ex-pupil with a beautiful but dangerous woman. This is a stirring tale of treason and romance from a master story-teller and author of 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'. Item #72074
Blanchard. The First Editions of John Buchan, A103.
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