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Zane Grey. The Last of the Plainsmen. The Outing Publishing, New York, 1908.
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth, blue tape at spine, no dj, ex-lib, well rubbed cover. Western; 5764
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Zane Grey. The Last of the Plainsmen. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1908.
Price: US$48.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hodder & Stoughton; The Outing Publishing Company, London, 1908. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good - some wear to top of spine - see picture. First UK edition. Octavo. Green cloth binding. Made from the American sheets; with illustrations from photographs by the author.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
Grey, Zane.. THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN.. Outing Publ Co: NY, 1908.
Price: US$51.75 + shipping
Description: Photos, 8.5 x 5.75, pict cloth, 314 pp, covers badly stained and heavily rubbed. FIRST ED. AS IS.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane. The Last of the Plainsmen. Outing Publishing Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Novel. Covers rubbed and sunned, corners and spine ends bumped, spine tanned and faded, two small splits at the top. Interior clean and tight, pages toned, book slightly slanted. Uncommon Grey title.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane.. The Last of the Plainsmen.. Outing Publishing Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: A good plus copy, bound in the original tan cloth. Gilt stamped spine, pictorial front boards stamped in gilt with light blue and white pictorial scene of a sand storm blowing across the prairie. Fading and leeching to the rear boards which are predominantly green. The spine is faded and the book is presentable, but just barely. A serviceable reading copy of the first edition with some great black and white photos of the Arizona desert, lion country, and a cougar hissing in a tree. Pearl Zane Grey (1872 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized theAmerican frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage(1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater. (Wikipedia) First Printing with matching dates of 1908 on the title and copyright pages.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
GREY, Zane. The Last of the Plainsmen. The Outing Publishing Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. The biography of Charles Jesse "Buffalo Jones" Jones, Frontiersman, Indian Fighter, and Hunter. Very Good, tiny nick to cloth at top spine end, cloth fading at spine and cover edges.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane. The Last of the Plainsmen. The Outing Publishing Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 314 pp., frontis, photographs, illustrations. A tight, sharp cornered, unmarked copy with a sunned spine as photographed and a previous owner book plate. Clean, no foxing or offsetting to pages or endpapers. Now in a clear Mylar protective cover. This being the biography of Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones. Zane Grey, in the spring of 1907, was fortunate enough to be the companion of the old plainsman on a trip across the desert, and hunt in that wonderful country. In this book he throws a little light upon the life and nature of that strange character and remarkable man, Buffalo Jones. Laid in is a canceled check written and SIGNED BY ZANE GREY, dated November 8th, 1920. The check is made out to, A.L. Haught, and is endorsed by him on the reverse. Anderson Lee Haught (1870-1929) was Zane Grey's Arizona bear hunting guide and the builder of his original cabin on the Mogollon Rim. Also, laid in is a copy photograph of A.L. "Babe" Haught. He was a true Arizona Pioneer, hunter, and family man, and a figure in the settling of the mountains of Central Arizona. He was a companion of Zane Grey and it was at the Haught ranch that Grey wrote the stories of Arizona. A COLLECTOR QUALITY COPY WITH ARIZONA ASSOCIATION ITEMS.
Seller: K & B Books, Tucson, AZ, AZ, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane. The Last of the Plainsmen. Outing, 1908.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Illustrated. Light green cloth decorated in light blue and white on the front cover, lettered in gilt. Zane Grey's clipped signature is pasted onto front free endpaper, captioned in a later hand "One of America's greatest Authors." This copy was also signed by Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones, the subject of the book. Jones's signature is in pencil on the front free endpaper below Grey's, and a note in the same hand in the corner reads "Signed by 'The Last Plainsman'". Book is in very good condition, with cloth rubbed at spine ends; slight bumping to corners; front hinge starting, with signs of previous repair.
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
GREY, Zane.. The Last of the Plainsmen.. New York, Outing Pub. Co., 1908., 1908.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with 26 b/w photographs by the author; 1 b/w drawing. 4 pages of publisher's advertisements bound in at end; also original cloth front cover bound in at end. Rebound in 3/4 navy blue morocco over blue boards, a.e.g. Enclosed in a blue cloth slipcase. Fine, fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Zane Grey. The last of the plainsmen. The Outing publishing company, 1908.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine a little sunned.Corners rubbed otherwise very good. Inscribed with the compliments of the Last of the Plainsmen" C.J. Jones and the author Zane Grey. Both signatures are authentic. Scarce with both signatures in this condition.
Seller: Hill Country Books, Ctr Sandwich, NH, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane. The Last of the Plainsmen (Signed Copy). Outing Publishing Co., NY, 1908.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition with "MCMVIII" on the title page and "1908" on the copyr ight page. Bound in green, blue and white cloth with gold lettering. A uthor's signature has been tipped onto the front fly. The subject of t he book, C.J. Jones, has also signed the copy below Grey's tipped-in s ignature. The front endpaper has "Signed by 'The Last Plainsmen'" penc illed at the upper left corner. Under Zane Grey's signature is written "One of America's greatest Authors" in blue ink. Illustrated with bla ck & white photos by Grey. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") size, 314pp. A Very G ood copy. The cloth covers are mildly faded and dull and show some rub bing to the edges. Small frays to the spine tips. Moderate soiling to spine and covers. Light foxing to the upper edges of a few pages and a few other pages have been roughly opened else content is clean, unmar ked and reasonably tight.
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
Zane Grey. The Last of the Plainsmen (inscribed by Zane Grey). The Outing Publishing Company, 1908.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Last of the Plainsmen" by Zane Grey. The Outing Publishing Company, 1908 first American edition. Inscribed and signed by Charles J. (Buffalo) Jones, and author Zane Grey on front endpaper, and six others on next page. Book in good condition, with some wear and rubbing to boards. Rare signed copy
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Grey, Zane. The Last of the Plainsmen. The Outing Co., NY, 1908.
Price: US$1599.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth titled titled in gilt, stamped sky, clouds, and grass. First edition- no add'l printings, matches Rogers' designations. Signed by J. W. Crawford (Capt. Jack, ) C. J. Jones (the Last of the Plainsmen) , and four other associated people. Ex-library gift copy with bookplate tipped- in to fep, pencilled numbers at rear, no other library markings. Frontis plus 24 other interior illustrations, missing one plate on p. 84. Boards are sunned towards extremites, corners softened, edges mildly frayed, front hinge starting. The biography of Charles Jesse "Buffalo" Jones. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's sage green pictorial cloth stamped in white, pale blue, and gilt; ix,[1],314,[6]pp.; photographic frontispiece, twenty-five (25) leaves of plates. Moderate rubbing to cloth margins, most notably at spine foot, spine panel toned and gilt dulled, rear cover faded at margins with some white paint (?) residue, textblock rather shaken in binding with leaf facing p. 112 separated but present. A Good to Very Good, still quite presentable copy overall. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the two subjects of this earthy profile: "Yours truly / J.W. Crawford / Capt. Jack" and "With compliments of 'the Last of the Plainsmen' CJ Jones." Below these the author has added "And the author / Zane Grey."
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
GREY, Zane. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to his wife. March 1908, New York, 1908.
Price: US$1875.00 + shipping
Description: A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "Pearl" (Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray) to his wife "Dolly" on three sheets of illustrated New Grand Hotel stationery with envelope postmarked March 1908. Grey discusses his rotten position: "I'm afraid I can't have Outing publish my book until everybody's got good and ready to let me. And I, like an idiot signed that paper, which legally gives them the right to my photographs. Why didn't you or Murphy see that? If they don't choose to use the story & pictures I can't get the book published at all. It's most damnably sickening. I don't know what to do. For a measly little hundred dollars I have about queered my chances. Murphy says it will work out allright [sic]. I hope so, but tonight I can't see anything but black. Will be on the mountain tomorrow." Zane Grey decided to become a writer just five years before this letter when he wrote a fishing story that appeared in RECREATION MAGAZINE. Outing published Grey's third book, THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN, in 1908 complete with Grey's photographs. It was based on a trip Grey made out West with Col. "Buffalo" Jones in 1907. This trip was the turning point in Grey's life, but his book about Jones and his experiences in the Grand Canyon was not successful. It would be a few more years before Grey became a success with RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE. An outstanding early letter revealing the torment of a struggling writer. Folds from mailing, still about Fine, with envelope
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
GREY, Zane.. The Last Of The Plainsmen.. The Outing Publishing Company, New York, 1908.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: 314 [4, ads] pp. With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth. Preserved in a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. First edition. Some bumping to corners and some of the usual fading to the green cloth,particularly at the spine; but a fresh, very good copy. Signed and inscribed by Zane Grey on the front free endpaper, Oct. 26, 1908.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.