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John Buchan
细节
The Power-House
John Buchan
BUCHAN, John (1875-1940). The Power-House. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916.
First edition in book form of the first of Buchan's novels to feature the barrister and Tory MP Edward Leithen. Written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, the plot centres around an international anarchist organisation, the titular Power-House. Determined to destroy western civilization, the Power-House is led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley, and is a sort of proto-Bilderberg Group, comprised of ‘nameless brains’ and ‘great extra-social intelligences’. Lumley himself is a bibliophile, with his library described thus: ‘the rows of tall volumes in vellum and morocco lined the walls like some rich tapestry’ (pp.209-210). In this shocker, Leithen, with the help of a Labour MP, eventually thwarts the group and upholds civilisation.
Octavo-in-16s. (Faint toning confined to endpapers, some occasional faint scattered spotting as usual due to the paper stock used.) Original red cloth, front and spine lettered in black (a fine copy with only the faintest of fading to extremity of foot of spine); original dust-jacket with pictorial front cover after Trotter with title printed in white and author’s name in pink on a black ground, circular price of '1/- NET' in white on red, this repeated on spine, the quotation on front cover, spine, rear cover and flaps all lettered in blue (spine of dust-jacket slightly soiled, tops of flaps faintly dust-soiled, some light spotting to rear cover and flap, some minor marginal nicks with associated losses, the worst being a 13mm tear into publisher’s imprint at foot of spine and two very small losses to black ground on front cover); custom morocco-backed cloth box.
John Buchan
BUCHAN, John (1875-1940). The Power-House. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916.
First edition in book form of the first of Buchan's novels to feature the barrister and Tory MP Edward Leithen. Written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, the plot centres around an international anarchist organisation, the titular Power-House. Determined to destroy western civilization, the Power-House is led by a rich Englishman named Andrew Lumley, and is a sort of proto-Bilderberg Group, comprised of ‘nameless brains’ and ‘great extra-social intelligences’. Lumley himself is a bibliophile, with his library described thus: ‘the rows of tall volumes in vellum and morocco lined the walls like some rich tapestry’ (pp.209-210). In this shocker, Leithen, with the help of a Labour MP, eventually thwarts the group and upholds civilisation.
Octavo-in-16s. (Faint toning confined to endpapers, some occasional faint scattered spotting as usual due to the paper stock used.) Original red cloth, front and spine lettered in black (a fine copy with only the faintest of fading to extremity of foot of spine); original dust-jacket with pictorial front cover after Trotter with title printed in white and author’s name in pink on a black ground, circular price of '1/- NET' in white on red, this repeated on spine, the quotation on front cover, spine, rear cover and flaps all lettered in blue (spine of dust-jacket slightly soiled, tops of flaps faintly dust-soiled, some light spotting to rear cover and flap, some minor marginal nicks with associated losses, the worst being a 13mm tear into publisher’s imprint at foot of spine and two very small losses to black ground on front cover); custom morocco-backed cloth box.
