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The Dancing Floor
John Buchan
John Buchan (1875-1940) was an Scottish novelist, historian and politician who served as Governor General of Canada from 1935 until his death in 1940 from a stroke aged 64 years. John Buchan was Homerector of Thomas Nelson and Sons when Blampied was working for them between 1917 and 1922. The Dancing Floor is the third of five novels featuring a character named Edward Leithen, a barrister and politician. The book is available from Project Gutenberg of Australia.
First edition?
Bibliography code: HOD-26.1i
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Series: none
Year: 1926
Format: 8vo
Pages: 311, 8pp ads
Binding: Light blue cloth with title and interwoven JB on front; title, author, publisher and interwoven H&S on spine
Size: 190 x 140 mm
Dust jacket: signed Blam, lower margin centre
Internal illustrations: frontispiece map, not by Blampied
Price: 7 shillings 6 pence
Printing history: none stated
Image of dust jacket (click to enlarge)
Printed by: Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury
Notes: This book is not dated so might not be the true first edition. It was reprinted 12 times in 1926 alone. The advertising at the back lists 'New and Forthcoming Novels' including The Dancing Floor and The Proper Place by O. Douglas, also first published in 1926 and other novels of that year. The novel was reprinted 12 times in 1926 alone.
● 19th impression
Bibliography code: HOD-26.1xix
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Series: none
Year: May 1935
Format: 8vo
Pages: 311
Binding: Light blue cloth with title, author and impressed head of woman from jacket on black bar with letters H&S on front; title, author, interwoven H&S and publisher on spine
Size: 189 x 133 mm
Dust jacket: not signed, signature cut off
Internal illustrations: frontispiece map, not by Blampied
Price: 3 shillings 6 pence
Image of dust jacket (click to enlarge)
Printing history: First printed July 1926, reprinted July 1926 (3 times), August 1926 (3 times), September 1926 (3 times), October 1926 (3 times), January 1927, October 1927, December 1927, August 1928, February 1930, May 1932, May 1935
Printed by: Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury
Notes: A copy with the price covered with a 4/- sticker has been seen.