"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
The Free Fishers.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Elegantly hand-bound in half green crushed morocco by Bayntun Riviere, with traditional raised bands to spine, gilt tooling, green buckram-covered sides, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents clean, exterior as new. 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 #74334
Blanchard. The First Editions of John Buchan, A103.
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