BUCHAN, John Augustus ~i~London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.~/i~1937.
Royal 8vo. Original green cloth boards with lettering in gilt and gilt Latin emblem on front cover; foredge gilt and preserved within green and white pictorial dust jacket portraying a black and white photograph of a sculpted Augustus profile; red sticker on pastedown marking The Lounge Library of Nice; contains one pull out family tree and one pull out map of Augustus' Empire; pp. (8) 7-17, (1) 19-356 (1); spine very lightly brusied at bottom of spine; spine of wrapper a little darkened; otherwise near fine copy.
Rare First Edition Hardback . John Buchan was a Socttish historian, prolific novelist and Unionist politician who, in 1935, was appointed Governor General of Canada by King George V. Although the most famous and remembered of his books can be listed as some of the first spy thrillers, Buchan's body of 100 works incude historical biographies not only of Caesar Augustus but also of Walter Scott and Oliver Cromwell.
#2120666