Wanderer of the Wasteland
by Grey, Zane
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Signed by Zane Grey in his purple signature ink on the title page, and again on the front free end paper. With Zane Grey's rainbird bookplate on the front free end paper.
This is the deluxe issue bound for Hodder and Stoughton by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for presentation to Zane Grey. There was only one copy each of these special copies so bound.
Undated, but the list of Zane Gray's works in the list opposite the title page shows titles only from 1903 (Betty Zane) to Mysterious Rider (1923).
Hinges neatly repaired; boards have some staining and yawning, spine darkened. Only a good to very good copy, but unique.
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Reviews
For those of us who are nearing senior citizen age, there is no greater novelist of the West than Zane Grey. And indeed for the younger set, this book will probably not appeal to them, for it is long, and tedious at times. But the descriptions of the desert and of the times and of the people who Wansfell encounters in his search for self and for redemption over the "killing" of his brother are enough to counter the slowness of the novel. And yes, the book may seem dated in its style and colloquial language the characters use, but that is exactly how Zane Grey heard people speak when he encountered them in his travels in the West. I have been a Zane Grey fan for over 40 years, and purchase every "new" book which is published, including those about the man, and it is easy to see that Wanderer of the Wasteland is autobiographical in nature--his life's story, his struggles, his losses, his journey of self discovery as to what the desert meant to him, and how nature and environment shapes lives. Don't dismiss this novel as "just another romance" by Zane Grey, but embrace it for what it was intended to be Zane Grey's Masterpiece--a story to be taken into one's own heart and used to reflect on one's own life. But even if you don't want to do that, this is still a book one can enjoy simply for the adventure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thorn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20335
- Title
- Wanderer of the Wasteland
- Author
- Grey, Zane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Books;
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