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Grey, Zane. Code of the West. Harper & Brothers, 1934.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown cloth over boards. Light wear. Some loss on top edge of spine. Page edge are foxed, as well as some marginal foxing. First printing.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane. CODE OF THE WEST. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1934.
Price: US$37.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 310 pp. Original red cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine a bit sunned; ends a bit frayed. Light foxing to edges of text block. "9.25" written in ink to top corner of front blank endpaper. Otherwise, contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane. CODE OF THE WEST. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1934.
Price: US$94.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo, 7.75 in. x 5.25 in., pp. 309. Stated "First Printing" with publisher's code "B-1". Brown boards with title in black box to front and spine. Rubbing to extremities. Corners are nudged. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper. Light age-toning to pages. No dustjacket.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$94.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first Canadian Edition; red publisher's cloth; lettering in black on spine and on front cover; 309 pages; yellow pictorial dust jacket; lettering in black on spine and on front cover; at bottom of the spine of the dust jacket, it states: "Musson"; below that it states "Made in Canada" and below that it states "Harpers"; on the front flap and the imprint on the title page, and on the verso of the title page it states "The Musson Book Company Limited"; Canadian copyright date on verso of title page is 1934; the good plus dust jacket does have some chipping at the extremities; at the bottom of the front cover of the dust jacket it also states "Harper & Brothers Established 1817"; Pearl "Zane" Grey (1872-1939) a prolific author of adventure novels was born in Zanesville, Ohio, a city originally settled by his ancestors; his novels of the American West are credited with developing the literary genre, the "western".
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
Grey, zane. CODE OF THE WEST. harper, 1934.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Description: near fine brownish red binding,
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.
GREY, Zane. Code of the West. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1934.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition stated (and B-I code). An uncommon Grey western novel. Very Good in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end, lower spine end with couple coin sized chips and closed tears, few scotch tape mends at verso.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
GREY, ZANE. CODE OF THE WEST. Harper & Brothers, New York,USA, 1934.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, 1934, A presentation copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED, in pencil, on the front free end paper, to Barrett C. Kiesling. Kiesling was a studio exec., publicist etc. for C.B. Demille and later Paramount. He was part of the transition from silent films to "talkies" and was the author of a book " How To Make Talkies" ! A wonderful association copy ! Near Fine ( no jacket); end paper shows browning and offset from a contemporary newspaper clipping concerning " westerns"
Seller: THE USUAL SUSPECTS (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Grey, Zane. Code Of The West. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1934.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 309pp. Brown cloth, black panel with title printed on spine and front cover. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with publisher's code "B-I." Solid text block, a touch of wear to corners and edges, offsetting to endpapers from dust jacket flaps, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, wear to front flap fold, some chipping at spine and corners, faint soiling. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
GREY, Zane.. The Code of the West.. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934., 1934.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (so stated: "B-I"). 8vo. Original brown cloth stamped in black (spots on front cover), else very good. 309 pages. No dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Zane Grey to Lola Gornall on the front free endpaper in his signature purple ink: "Altadena, Sept 27 - To Lola - my latest romance published July 1, written fifteen years ago. It is going strong. Paramount is making a motion-picture of it. I hope you like it. Ever, Zane." Zane Grey first met Lola Gornall, a poet living in Australia in April 1933. Between 1934 and 1938 Grey sent her over 500 letters. When they finally met the sparks flew. See Pauly, pages 301, 306, 307 for the details.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.