Five-Fold Salute to Adventure John Buchan 1939 First Omnibus Edition
 
Title & Bibliographic Details
 
A Five-Fold Salute to Adventure
An Omnibus Volume of the Historical Novels of John Buchan
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London
Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney Ltd., London and Aylesbury
First omnibus edition, 1939
 
This substantial collected edition brings together five of Buchan’s finest historical novels in a uniform publisher’s binding issued shortly before his death and intended as part of Hodder & Stoughton’s collected adventure sequences.
 
Historical & Bibliographic Context
 
This omnibus contains:
The Blanket of the Dark 
Witch Wood 
Salute to Adventurers 
Midwinter 
The Free Fishers 
 
Together these works represent Buchan’s historical fiction at its most mature and literary, particularly Witch Wood and Midwinter, which are widely regarded among his finest achievements beyond his espionage novels.
 
Collected omnibus editions such as this formed part of Hodder & Stoughton’s programme to preserve Buchan’s major narrative cycles in durable companion volumes for collectors and libraries.
 
About the Author
 
John Buchan was a novelist and statesman best known for The Thirty-Nine Steps.
 
Binding & Exterior Description
 
Original publisher’s light cloth binding with:
black linear borders and black lettering to front board and spine
small publisher’s device to spine 
uniform Hodder & Stoughton omnibus styling 
 
Condition:
The binding remains strong and intact with:
several light marks to the cloth 
noticeable tanning to the spine 
light bumping to corners 
light rubbing to extremities 
light crease to spine 
 
No dust jacket present.
 
Interior Condition
 
The interior remains clean and complete.
 
Features include:
lightly toned pages throughout 
small marks to pastedowns, endpapers and preliminaries 
neat ownership inscription: M. W. Horrocks 
occasional small creases or folds 
several small edge tears not affecting text 
small partial tear through page 97 (text remains legible) 
light gutter crack beside title page 
very light partial crack beside page 480 
light crack between pages 1306–1307 
 
All xii + 1307 pages are present and secure.
 
Physical Details
 
Pagination: xii + 1307 pages
Dimensions: 19.5 by 13.7 by 5.6 cm
Weight: 1086 g