Sir Walter Raleigh

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1911.

Price: $50.00

Hardcover. First American edition. Red cloth decorated in gilt with color portrait pasted on front board. Without dustwrapper as issued. Spine slightly faded, boards soiled, gutters cracked, spine ends and corners are frayed, thus good only.

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Item #316455 Sir Walter Raleigh. John BUCHAN.

John Buchan
birth name: John Buchan
born: 8/26/1875
died: 2/11/1940

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Statesman and writer best known for his swift-paced advetnure stories. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteraturePronounced like the beginning of "buchaneer," except that as a Scottish name the "ch" isn't a hard "k," but rather more like static on a radio.more