The Call of the Canyon
by Grey, Zane (Signed by Zane Grey; Unique Copy)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
First English edition. Octavo. Full gilt stamped red calf, t.e.g. Very good. 312 pages. Rare. Boldly signed by Zane Grey in his signature purple ink on the front free endpaper and signed again in purple ink on the title page. With Zane Grey's small rainbird bookplate on the front free endpaper. Tipped-in is an Autograph Letter Signed from Sir Ernest Hodder Williams sending Christmas and New Years greetings and best wishes. Deluxe issue bound for Hodder and Stoughton by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for presentation to Zane Grey. There was only one copy each of these special leather bound copies done for Zane Grey by Hodder and Stoughton. Provenance: Estate of Betty Zane (Elizabeth) Grey Grosso. Grey's daughter.
Synopsis
From the book:What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window. It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet. Glenn has been gone over a year, she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet." She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Year's Eve, 1918. They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carley's friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window, to watch and hear the old year out, the new year in. Glenn Kilbourne had returned from France early that fall, shell-shocked and gassed, and otherwise incapacitated for service in the army-a wreck of his former sterling self and in many unaccountable ways a stranger to her. Cold, silent, haunted by something, he had made her miserable with his aloofness. But as the bells began to ring out the year that had been his ruin Glenn had drawn her close, tenderly, passionately, and yet strangely, too.
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- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 222704
- Title
- The Call of the Canyon
- Author
- Grey, Zane (Signed by Zane Grey; Unique Copy)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1924
- Pages
- 312
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ZANE GREY
- Bookseller catalogs
- ZANE GREY;
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