Betty Zane by Grey, P. Zane - 1903

Charles Francis Press Publishers, 1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Charles Francis Press, 1903. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Zane Grey. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, gray cloth boards with cover design and illustrations by the author. Exterior shows some scuffing and numerous fingerprints, particularly on the back. Edges and corners show only very light bumps/wear. The internal binding is good, no hinge issues. No signatures or bookplates, no library markings, no handwriting. Pages are surprisingly bright for the age of the book. The only issue found inside is on page 291, where there is a small tear along the top edge which measures just under an inch. The title page states second edition. The frontispiece still has the tissue guard, all six illustrations have been verified as being present and in good shape. The book would normally grade higher, except for the smudge marks on the back exterior board.

New York: Charles Francis Press, 1903. xii,(2),15-291 pp. Octavo. Original highly decorated cloth binding. Gilt title on spine and front board. Boards are very clean with little soiling. Top edge of text block trimmed with other two edges untrimmed. Frontis portrait with original tissue guard. half title. Small stain on the front pastedown from a bookplate. 5 full page illustrations. A very clean crisp copy. Zane Grey's scarce first book. Copies in clean crisp condition like this example are even more uncommon. 1903

New York: Charles Francis Press, 1903. Second edition [sic]. Gray cloth decoratively stamped in rust, gilt and brown with vertical gilt leafy vine pattern overlapping title and prominent autumnal fallen leaf. Tiny puncture to frontis tissue guard, faint wear, still fine and bright in custom mylar cover.. Octavo. 291pp. FINDING THE STORY It could be that the source point of an author's first book is a memory that haunts the soul, original and peculiar, fascinating and difficult to manage. It might explain Thomas Wolfe's heavy baggage, Abbey's rejection, Harper Lee's silence. Zane Grey's portrait of his rambunctious great grand-aunt, the revolutionary war heroine Betty Zane (1765-1823), on the other hand, had a cathartic effect, his output ultimately exceeding 150 popular titles--though none achieved the stature of the controversial Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). Enjoyed more for its sense of history than mastery of the devices of fiction, Betty Zane is a labor of love, self-published with the… Read More

Charles Francis Press, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Signed. Laid in is a check SIGNED by Zane Grey. Frontis and 5 other illustrations by Zane Grey. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Spine ends, corners, joints and hinges have been professionally refurbished. The volume has a toned spine with very diminished gilt to the lettering, and the panels have some soiling and two splash marks on the title panel. The interior has a bookplate on the front pastedown, and some finger soiling to the pages. Author's first book.