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John Buchan 1847-1911 : SIGNED by Helen Buchan : Privately Printed 1912

John Buchan 1847-1911 : SIGNED by Helen Buchan : Privately Printed 1912

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John Buchan (April 23, 1847 – September 19, 1911) 

By Anna Buchan (sister of John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps)

SIGNED BY AUTHOR JOHN BUCHAN'S MOTHER

Peebles: Privately printed, 1912. vii, [1], 326 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Inscribed on front flyleaf, ‘Dear Mrs Cree with love from Helen Buchan March 1919.’

The memoir is of John Buchan, the father of John Buchan, the author of ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps.’ Helen Buchan, who has signed trhe book, was the wife of John Buchan [the elder] and the mother of John Buchan the author.

CONDITION
A good copy with some sun-fading to the cloth binding. Some light spotting to endpapers, title page and the following fewq pages but the rest of the text is clean with perhaps the odd spot here and there. Overall a good inscibed copy.

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