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John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Buchan

Male : Novelist, Poet, Biographer, Historian & statesman. Married Susan Gosvenor in 1907
Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Perth

Date of Birth : 1875 Date of Death : 1940 Age : 65

Other Work : Barrister 1901. 1927-1935 Conservative MP for Scottish Universities. Governor-General of Canada 1935

Education : Hutcheson's School, Glasgow, Glasgow Univ & Brasenose College, Oxford
Hodder & Stoughton unless stated
1895-1900
(Ed) Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon (1894 Walter Scott)
Sir Quixote of the Moors
(1895 Fisher Unwin)
(Ed) Musa Piscatrix (1896 John Lane / McClurg, Chicago) - etchings by E Philip Pimlott
Scholar Gypsies
(1896 John Lane, The Bodley Head) (1896 Macmillan, NY)
Sir Walter Raleigh
(1897 Blackwell) - verse
The Pilgrim Fathers
(1898 Blackwell) - verse
A History of Brasenose College
(1898 F E Robinson, London)
Offered in 1998 for £225
John Burnet of Barns
(1898 John Lane)
[His first novel]
Grey Weather : Moorland Tales of My Own People
(1899 JL, The Bodley Head)
A Lost Lady of Old Years
(1899 JL)
The Half-Hearted
(1900 Isbister, London)

1901-1910
(Ed) The Compleat Angler by Isaak Walton (1901 Methuen)
(In) The Book of the Horace Club 1898-1901 (1901 Blackwell)
(In) The Book of the Jubilee (1901 Univ of Glasgow)
The Watcher by the Threshold & Other Tales
(1902 Blackwood)
The African Colony : Studies in Reconstruction
(1903 Blackwood)
The Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income
(1905 Stevens)
(In) The Empire and the Century (1905 John Murray)
A Lodge in the Wilderness
(1906 Blackwood)
Some Eighteenth Century Byways
(1908 Blackwood)
Nine Brasenose Worthies
(1909 Clarendon)
Prester John
(1910 Nelson)

1911-1915
Sir Walter Raleigh : Eleven Stories for Children
(1911 Nelson)
What the Home Rule Bill Means
(1912 Smyth)
The Moon Endureth : Tales and Fancies
(1912 Blackwood) (1912 Houghton Mifflin) - ss
The Marquis of Montrose
(1913 Nelson)
Andrew Jamieson, Lord Ardwall
(1913 Blackwood)
Salute to Adventurers
(nd. 1915 Nelson)
Britain's War by Land
(1915 OUP)
The Thirty-Nine Steps
(1915 Blackwood) - [Richard Hannay book]
[Filmed in 1935, 1959 & 1978]
The Achievment of France
(1915 Methuen)
Ordeal by Marriage
(1915 Clay)
Nelson's History of the War
(1915-19 Nelson) - 24 vols

1916-1920
Greenmantle
(1916) - [Richard Hannay book]
The Power House
(1916 Blackwood) (1916 Doran) - Edward Leithen Book
The Future of the War
(1916 Boyle, Sons & Watchurst)
The Prupose of War
(1916 Dent)
The Battle of Jutland
(1916 Nelson) - pamphlet
The Battle of the Somme, First Phase
(1916 Nelson)
The Battle of the Some, Second Phase
(1917 Nelson)
Poems, Scots and English
(1917 Jack) - verse
Mr Standfast
(1918) - [Richard Hannay book]
(In) The Quenn's Gift Book (1918 H & S)
The Island of Sheep
(1919) - by 'Cadmus & Harmonia'
The Battle-Honours of Scotland
(1919 Outram)
These for Remembrance
(1919 Medici)
The History of the South African Forces in France
(1920 Nelson)
Francis and Riversdale Grenfell
(1920 Nelson)
(Ed) The Long Road to Victory (1920 Nelson)

1921-1923
The Path of the King
(nd. 1921)
(Ed) Miscellanies by Lord Rosebery (1921 H & S)
(Ed) Great Hours in Sport (1921 Nelson)
A History of the Great War
(1921-22 Nelson) - 4 vols (1922 Houghton Mifflin - 8 vols)
A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys
(1922 Nelson) (1923 Houghton Mifflin) - A S Forrest
Huntingtower
(1922) - Dickson McGunn book
Midwinter : Certain Travellers in Old England
(nd.1923)
Days to Remember
(1923 Nelson) - with Sir Henry Newbolt
The Last Secrets : The Final Mysteries of Exploration
(1923 Nelson)
(Ed) The Nations of Today (1923-24 H & S) - six un-numbered vols
(Ed) A History of English Literature (1923 Nelson)

1924-1925
The Three Hostages
(nd. 1924) - [Richard Hannay book]
(Ed) The Northern Muse (1924 Nelson)
Some Notes on Sir Walter Scott
(1924 English Assoc, OUP) - pamphlet
Lord Minto
(1924 Nelson)
(In) The Scottish Tongue (1924 Cassell)
(In) Balliol College War Memorial Books 1914-1919 (1924 Balliol)
(In) Essays by Divers Hands (1925 Royal Soc of Literature)
(In) A History of Peebleshire (1925-7 Jackson Wylie) - 3 vols
Two Ordeals of Democracy
(1925 Houghton Mifflin US)
The Man and the Book : Sir Walter Scott
(1925 Nelson)
The History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers
(1925 Nelson)
John Macnab
(nd. 1925) (1925 Houghton Mifflin) - Edward Leithen Book

1926-1927
The Dancing Floor
(nd. 1926) (1926 Houghton Mifflin) - Edward Leithen Book
The Fifteenth
(Scottish) Division (1926 Blackwood) - with J Stewart
Homilies and Recreations
(1926 Nelson)
Homilies and Recreations
(1926 Nelson) - 200 signed
(Ed) Essays and Studies (1926 English Assoc, OUP)
(In) The Boys All-Round Book (1926 Nelson)
(Ed) South Africa (1927 British Empire Educational Press)
Witch Wood
(1927) (1927 Houghton Mifflin)
(In) Sails of Gold (1927 Jarrolds)
(In) Sails of Gold (1927 Scribner NY) - contains "The Magic Walking Stick"

1928-1930
The Runagates Club & Other Stories
(1928) - Edward Leithen Book
Montrose
(1928 Nelson) (1928 Houghton Mifflin)
(In) The Boys All-Round Book (1928 Nelson)
(Ed) A General Survey of British History (1928 Nelson) - 11 vols
The Courts of the Morning
(1929) - [Richard Hannay book]
The Causal and the Casual in History
(1929 CUP)
Castle Gay
(1930) (1930 Houghton Mifflin) - Dickson McGunn book
The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay
(1930) - Omnibus
Montrose and Leadership
(1930 OUP)
The Kirk in Scotland
(1930 H & S) - with G Adam Smith
Lord Rosebery
(1930 British Academy, H Milford)

1931-1933
The Blanket of the Dark
(1931)
The Novel and the Fairy Tale
(1931 English Assoc) - pamphlet
(Ed) The Poetry of Neil Munro (1931 Blackwood)
Sir Walter Scott
(1932 Cassell)
(In) The Silver Ship (1932 Putnam)
Julius Caesar
(1932 Davies)
The Gap in the Curtain
(1932) - Edward Leithen Book
The Magic Walking Stick
(1932) - children's fantasy. - J Morton Sale
A Prince of the Captivity
(1933)
(In) Help Yourself Annual (1933 Nelson)
The Adventures of Sir Edward Leithen
(1933) - Omnibus
Andrew Lang and the Border
(1933 OUP)
The Massacre of Glencoe
(1933 Davies) (1933 Putnams NY)
Principles of Social Service
(1933 City of Glasgow Society of Social Service)
The Margins of Life
(1933 Birkbeck College)

1934-1935
Gordon at Khartoum
(1934 Davies)
Oliver Cromwell
(1934 H & S)
The Free Fishers
(1934)
(In) Six Stories from Shakespeare (1934 Newnes)
The King's Grace 1910-1935
(1935 H & S) - trade edition
The King's Grace 1910-1935
(1935 Univ of London Press) - school edition
The King's Grace 1910-1935
(1935 H & S) - Ltd Signed Large Paper Ed 500
Men and Deeds
(1935 Davies)
The House of the Four Winds
(1935) - Dickson McGunn book

1936-1940
The Island of Sheep
(1936) - [Richard Hannay book]
Four Tales
(1936) - Omnibus
The Adventures of Dickson McCunn
(1937) - Omnibus
Augustus
(1937 H & S)
Naval Episodes of the Great War
(1938 Nelson)
The Interpreter's House
(1938 H & S)
Unchanging Germany
(1939 Nelson)
A Five-Fold Salute to Adventure
(1939) - Omnibus
Memory Hold the Door
(1940 H & S)
(in US as "Pilgrim's Way - an Essay in Recolletion" 1940 Houghton Mifflin)
Canadian Occasions
(1940 H & S)
Comments and Characters
(1940 Nelson)

AFTER 1941
Sick Heart River
(1941) - Edward Leithen Book
Mountain Meadow
(1941 Houghton Mifflin) - same as above title
The Long Traverse
(1941) - boy's adventure story. - J Morton Sale
Adventurers All
(1942 Houghton Mifflin) - Omnibus
The Clearing House
(1946 H & S) - arranged by Lady Tweedsmuir
Life's Adventure
(1947 St Hugh's Press) - compiled by Lady Tweedsmuir
The Thirty-Nine Steps
(1964 Dent, Dutton) - Edward Ardizzone
The Best Stories of John Buchan
(1980 Michael Joseph) - Omnibus

READING
Susan Buchan : John Buchan by His Wife and Friends
(1947 Hodder & Stoughton)
Archibald Hanna Jnr : John Buchan - A Bibliography
(1953 The Shoe String Press, Hamden, Conn)
Janet Adam Smith : John Buchan
(1965 Hart-Davis 63/-)
Robert Blanchard : The First Editions of John Buchan
(1981 Archon)
William Buchan : John Buchan - A Memoir
(1982)
Paul Webb : A Buchan Companion
(1994 Alan Sutton)
Andrew Lownie : John Buchan - The Presbyterian Cavalier
(1995 Constable £20)

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