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Twin Sombreros
by Grey, Zane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good -/Very Good -
- Seller
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Canton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. "First Edition, First Printing". Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good -. Decorated Red Brown Cloth Covers; Pictorial Endpapers; free front endpaper has previous owner's name in ink; right book edge is rough-cut and all book edges are light to moderately soiled from use; book is tight and dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper; dustjacket has some creasing and a small closed tear on lower front edge and some rubbing and minor chipping to top edges and spine ends; dustjacket is bright; small water stain mark on rear dustjacket panel near spine gutter but not reflected on book or elsewhere; 12mo; 301 pages
Orig #1348A639B1
Orig #1348A639B1
Reviews
On Feb 1 2021, a reader said:
Twin Sombreros is a piece of fluff. I say that not in a disparaging or hurtful way, but merely to say, it is a typical Zane Grey book--"what everybody knows he writes"--and when this book was written during the middle to late 1930's, ZG had pretty much become the writer everyone already said he was--a writer of "westerns", "the sum of which could be written on the back of a postage stamp" one critic decried. Indeed, his best years were behind him; he had said everything he needed to say in such great tomes as Riders of the Purple Sage, The Man of the Forest, Wanderer of the Wasteland, and others. Here he is just writing for profit, and there wasn't much profit to be made during the Great Depression. If it had not been for his wife, Dolly, who managed the business end of things, Zane Grey would most likely have gone bankrupt. Still, with all that being said, Twin Sombreros is a light-hearted, good western filled with action, romance, and remarkable characters, including Brazos Keene, last seen leaving Holly Ripple's ranch in Knights of the Range. I'd recommend it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charing Cross Road Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20071276
- Title
- Twin Sombreros
- Author
- Grey, Zane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- "First Edition, First Printing"
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
Terms of Sale
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Canton, Georgia
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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