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John Buchan (1875-1940)

Lot 238
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 238 | John Buchan (1875-1940)
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£ 1 000 – 1 500
John Buchan (1875-1940)

These For Remembrance. 1919

BUCHAN, John (1875-1940). These For Remembrance. London: Privately Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1919.



First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to the Scottish political writer Frederick Scott Oliver. Comprising six short biographical sketches of some of Buchan’s closest friends that fell in the Great War, These For Remembrance was privately printed at the author’s expense in a run of just 40 copies. Its publication was evidently a deeply emotional moment for Buchan, who wrote to his mother: ‘I can scarcely re-read it, it makes me so sad… I am well repaid if it gives pleasure to relatives […] I thought it wise to have it finely printed’ (quoted in Buchan, Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, London: 2020, p.222).



Quarto (230 x 162mm). Original blue-grey boards, printed paper spine label (spine and label somewhat faded, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Frederick Scott Oliver (1864-1934; presentation inscription from the author to ‘F. S. O’, dated June 1919).

Place of origin:Northern Europe
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