Mr. Standfast.
BUCHAN, John.
Mr. Standfast.
First Edition of John Buchan's Mr. Standfast
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.
$350.00
In Stock
Item Number: 150846
First edition of this classic WWI spy thriller novel, the third to follow Richard Hannay. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition.
John Buchan (1875–1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and public servant whose career combined literary achievement with imperial administration. Educated at the University of Glasgow and Oxford, Buchan gained international recognition for his adventure fiction, most notably The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), while also producing works of history and biography. Mr. Standfast (1919) is the third Richard Hannay novel by John Buchan and is set during the final phase of the First World War. Recalled from the Western Front, Hannay is tasked with uncovering a German spy operating in Britain and assumes the undercover identity of Cornelius Brand, a South African conscientious objector, in order to infiltrate pacifist circles suspected of harboring enemy agents. The pursuit carries him from Scotland across Britain and ultimately to a climactic confrontation in the Swiss Alps.
