Huntingtower.
BUCHAN, John.
Huntingtower.
"Poetry's not a thing of pretty round phrases or noisy invocations. It's life itself, with the tang of the raw world in it": John Buchan's Huntingtower
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946.
$475.00
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Item Number: 150774
Finely bound edition of this classic adventure novel, the first to follow Dickson McCunn. Duodecimo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, cartographic frontispiece. In fine condition.
John Buchan (1875–1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and public servant whose career combined literary achievement with imperial administration. During the First World War he served in British intelligence and later held political office, culminating in his appointment as Governor General of Canada (1935–1940). 'Huntingtower' (1922) is an adventure novel that follows Dickson McCunn, a fifty-five-year-old retired Glasgow grocer who leaves his settled, bourgeois life for a walking tour in Galloway and unexpectedly becomes involved in an international intrigue. When he discovers that a young Russian princess is being held captive in a remote Scottish house by Bolshevik agents seeking valuable jewels, McCunn joins forces with the poet John Heritage and a group of resourceful Glasgow boys known as the “Gorbals Die-Hards” to effect her rescue.
