30,000 on the Hoof by GREY, Zane - 1940

Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1940. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Tan cloth cover with brown lettering. Book is clean and tight. Dust has chips and tears but now in brodart protective cover. Former owners name written in front with date of 1942. This is a Grosset first edition as Harper printed the actual first edition. Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. Pearl Zane Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio. His birth name may have originated from newspaper descriptions of Queen Victoria's mourning clothes as "pearl grey".[2] He was the fourth of five children born to Alice "Allie" Josephine Zane, whose English Quaker immigrant ancestor Robert Zane came to the North American colonies in 1673, and her husband, Lewis M. Gray, a dentist.[3] His family changed the spelling of their last name to "Grey" after his birth. Later Grey dropped Pearl and used Zane as his first name. He grew up in Zanesville, a city founded by his maternal great-grandfather Ebenezer Zane, an American Revolutionary War. ; 4.90 X 3.20 X 1.25 inches; 304 pages .