BUCHAN, John The Dancing Floor. Hodder and Stoughton [1926].
8vo. Original blue cloth bound with black lettering to upper board and spine as well as author's initials; pp. [8] 7-311 [ads. vii]; Slight offsetting to prelims and pictorial dust jacket slightly browned to spine with light spotting to foreedges, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. Signed by Buchan in black ink to title-page.
'Plakos is a strange place, for the tides of civilisation and progress seem to have left it high and dry. It is a relic of old days, full of wild beliefs and pagan habits.'
The Dancing Floor is Buchan's third Edward Leithen novel and an unusual melding of genres, being an intoxicating thriller infused with romantic obsession and as much a love story as an analysis of the conflict between the practice of Paganism and the worship of Christianity.
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