Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Grey, Zane. WILD HORSE MESA. Harper & Bros., New York, 1928.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 x 8, 365 pgs. The hunt of a hundred men for one magnificent wild stallion. Ex-library with the usual markings. In protective jacket.
Seller: High-Lonesome Books, Silver City, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Scarce in any condition. Chipping along spine, binding shaken but intact. Occasional neat underlinings, neat notations. Otherwise clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover is yellow with green lettering on spine and cover. Green, monochrome end papers of a man [Zane Grey? ] fishing. Pages tight. One of several books Grey wrote on fishing. Illustrated with 58 b/w photographs; color photograph as frontispiece. Copyright page states 1919, but may be a later printing, possibly from ca. 1928 [with Harper code 'E-C']. ; B&W Photographs; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2; 267 pages; Hardcover has extensive damp staining, shelf wear, bumping, fraying, sunning. Inscription on front end paper; an owner's name written inside front cover. Original book store sticker, from Santa Monica, CA, on bottom of front end paper. Pages show some faint brown foxing.
Seller: Pegasus Books, Farmington Hills, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Faux limp leather, gilt title. Frontis and 7 plates. Some dampstaining to margins and rear cover. Tight and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; viii,56 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane. Wild Horse Mesa. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1928.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Though the spine is a little bit faded, the book is mostly dark blue in color. In yellow on the cover and the spine are the title and author. A zig-zag pattern is also on the front cover. The top and bottom of the spine are a tad frayed. All of the end papers are decorated with illustrations of a man and woman tending to and/or riding horses. There are a couple of dirty spots on a few pages and a water spot on another few pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 56 pp, brown toned photographs, the book and contents are solid and tight, the pages are clean, although an approximately 1/4" x 1/2" triangular shaped spot on the edge of the title page has pulled off the frontis of Zane Grey, leaving a small spot, the covers are tight and have light soil and some light edge wear, there is a library stamp on the lower left front corner, a very solid and usable booklet.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardback, octavo, bound in a textured vinyl lettered gilt, one of the two variations of the first edition, this variant being bound in an unnumbered limitation, the vinyl has lifted form the upper board and there is a small water mark to the spine which shows through to the gutters of the endpapers, the paper is surprisingly clean and bright, minor offsetting from the frontis portrait, illustrated, 56pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wraps (softcover). 1928. Harper and Brothers publishers. 56 pages. Small closed tear on top front cover and on two staples on spine, else Very Good condition. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 56 pages
Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Frontis. photo of Zane Grey + 9 additional illustrations (listed). Bibliography listing Grey's books. 56pp. Flexible brown leatherette cover with gilt title on cover and spine. Only very tiny wear to corners + frontis. photo has left light imprint on facing title page. Would be Fine if not for these minor imperfections. This was a promotional piece issued by Grey's publisher Harper & Brothers at the height of the author's popularity, released in both this leatherette cover and wrappers. Chapters by Grey + short pieces by other authors about Zane Grey. A beautiful copy.
Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Stapled wrappers. Staples have oxidized and stained the spine fold, wrappers detached, else a sound, good copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Issued for family and friends in a small printing, never offered for sale at time of printing. Fine, brown flexible leatherette binding, illustrated with photographs, includes essays by Grey "My Own Life" and "What the Open Means To Me". Also chapters by T. K. Whipple, Rupert Hughes, John Wanamaker and L. H. Robbins.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 56 pp. Original yellow staple-bound wraps, moderately soiled w/ mild edge wear. Previous owner's name stamp on half-title page. Illust. w/ photos. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Grey, Zane. Zane Grey. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1928.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Man and His Work. first Edition. Soft boards. 8vo. Leatherette flexible boards. Mild wear at extremities. Inscribed by Mr. Grey's wife on FFEP.Sept. 22, '48, "To Joe Callahan, with best wishes, Lina Elise Grey (Mrs. Zane Grey)"
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Thin 8vo. Frontispiece portrait photograph of Grey and 10 photographs. Original stiff yellow wrappers stamped in green. Very good-fine. 56 pages. No signatures or bookplates. With 2 essays by Zane Grey: 1). My Own Life. 2). What the Open Means to Me. Includes contributions by: T.K. Whipple "American Sagas"; Rupert Hughes "The Epic Spirit"; John Wanamaker "Never Lay Down Your Pen!"; John Farrar "Zane Grey and the American Spirit." With Zane Grey's blindstamp on front free endpaper.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED FIRST EDITION in brown leatherette binding; signed by Zane Grey on flyleaf (see photo); frontis. photo of Grey + 9 additional illustrations (listed); bibliography listing Grey's books; 56pp. Flexible brown leatherette cover with gilt title on cover and spine. Very Good+ with light wear to spine + corners; frontis photo of Zane Grey has left light transferred imprint on facing title page (typical of this book); front pastedown has glue spots from a (presumed) removed bookplate (see photo). This was a promotional piece issued by Grey's publisher Harper & Brothers at the height of the author's popularity, released in both this leatherette cover and wrappers. Chapters by Grey + short pieces by other authors about Zane Grey. A beautiful signed copy.
Seller: North Slope Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Thin 8vo. Frontispiece portrait photograph of Grey and 10 photographs. Original gilt stamped brown leatherette. Very good-fine. 56 pages. No signatures or bookplates. With 2 essays by Zane Grey: 1). My Own Life. 2). What the Open Means to Me. Includes contributions by: T.K. Whipple "American Sagas"; Rupert Hughes "The Epic Spirit"; John Wanamaker "Never Lay Down Your Pen!"; John Farrar "Zane Grey and the American Spirit." With Zane Grey's blindstamp on front free endpaper. On August 11, 1975 this copy was purchased from Romer Grey and the canceled check for the purchase is laid in loose.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: With half-title, frontispiece portrait and 7 additional full-page photographic plates containing 10 additional photographs. Gilt stamped brown leatherette, corners slightly bumped, untrimmed edges. Text is clean and bright.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
GREY, Zane. Wild Horse Mesa. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1928.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Stockton Mullford dustjacket art. Western genre novel of a young man in pursuit of a horse. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few small chips at top spine end, small chip at top rear and lower front panels.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Zane Grey The Man and his Work. An Autobiographical Sketch, Critical Appreciations & Bibliography.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated w rare gravure sepia photos, this small book includes the following articles: My Own Life by Zane Grey; Zane Grey and the American Spirit by John Farrar, American Sagas by TK Whipple; The Epic Spirit by Rupert Hughes; What the Open Means to Me by Zane Grey; Never Lay Down Your Pen by John Wanamaker; His Many Readers by LH Robbins. Ink handwritten inscription on fep reads: Margaret-- These are a few collected items about my father together with some of his writing. You remind us so much of him. I thought you might find something of interest in these pages. Always with love, Rome. 5-1/4 x 7-3/4, 56 pp, 8 pp of sepia photos incl frontispiece portrait of Grey, bibliography. Near Fine w 5/8-in chip near bottom of spine else perfect, with inscription by Grey*s son Romer, else unmarked Hardcover in flexible leatherette boards w gilt print on front
Seller: Ed Buryn Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 56pp. A near fine copy in the publisher's limp/flexible textured boards with minimal shelfwear. Clean and bright internally. This copy bears a photographic portrait of Grey tipped onto the front paste-down, which is SIGNED by Grey in his trademark purple ink. Attractive thus.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.