Twin Sombreros.
by GREY, Zane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very slight marks to free endpapers front and rear from old jacket protector; a few light stains to cloth; tight and sound in a
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
[London]:: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1941].. First UK edition.. publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket.. Very slight marks to free endpapers front and rear from old jacket protector; a few light stains to cloth; tight and sound in a jacket with one small and several tiny chips, and several stains from old tape repairs at the extremities of the spine.. 8vo,.
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
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58405
- Title
- Twin Sombreros.
- Author
- GREY, Zane
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very slight marks to free endpapers front and rear from old jacket protector; a few light stains to cloth; tight and sound in a
- Edition
- First UK edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton,
- Place of Publication
- [London]:
- Date Published
- [1941].
- Pages
- 288 pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
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Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
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Rochester, New York
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