Zane Grey. Riders of The Purple Sage, a Novel. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1912.

Price: US$576.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Top and bottom end of spine tears; front cover board signs of minor fading including attached faded pictorial plate; scuffed cover board corners Author of 'The Heritage of the Desert'; published by arrangement with Harper Brothers; previous owner's signature at top of Contents page; minor foxing on some pages; weakened rear hinge but in tact. Four b/w illustrations; This reprint is a rare copy.

Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada

Grey, Zane. Riders of the Purple Sage [Signed]. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1912.

Price: US$1020.78 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: SIGNED in full by the author in blue ink on ffep: "Zane Grey". The letter "y" in Grey's signature is slightly smudged, otherwise a clear bold example. GROSSET & DUNLAP ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Copyright 1912. First published in 1912, this is the Grosset & Dunlap Anniversary Edition. Not to be confused with the Harper Tenth Anniversary Edition, published by Harper & Brothers in 1921, with colour frontispiece & 11 additional colour plates by W. Herbert Dunton, which was limited to 1500 copies. This edition contains NO plates or frontispiece, as issued. Front board with "Anniversary Edition" printed in silver on blue. Copyright page contains the letters "H-A". Printed in the USA. Bound in publisher's original silver cloth with silver lettering on dark blue to front board & spine. No dustjacket. PLEASE NOTE: This is a GOOD copy only. Covers slightly worn, light marginal staining throughout (more so to endpapers), some tear damage to lower corner of both front pastedown & ffep (which appear to have been affixed together when water staining occurred), small brown tape remnant marks to both endpapers & pastedowns, slight handling wear with a couple of pages dog-eared, otherwise a clean tight solid hardcover copy. See photographs. Digital photographs further illustrating condition are available on request. 335pp. Scarce Grosset & Dunlap Anniversary Edition & extremely RARE SIGNED.

Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia