Desert of Wheat, The
by Grey, Zane
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. W.H.D. Koerner. 377 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green cloth cover boards with gilt reverse lettering on front and spine. Corners bumped, rear board has moderate soiling, spine shows heavy rubbing and wear. Illutrations by W.H.D. Koerner. Spine slightly cocked, but tight copy. Record # 353990
Reviews
On Apr 12 2020, a reader said:
Whether you are an old hand, or a greenhorn who has heard of Zane Grey and willing to try one of his books, The Desert of Wheat will not disappoint....unless you are expecting cowboys on horses or shoot-outs in the streets. This book has neither, but it does give us a taste of the conditions which existed during the period of years surrounding the 1st World War--especially the activity and philosophy of a group called the IWW. There is espionage, arson, murder, and intrigue all set in the wheat growing district of Washington state known as the Columbia Basin. Also, as with any Zane Grey book the vivid descriptions of landscape and his fully rounded and well developed characters are there, as well as the romance, all heightened amid the backdrop of the War--a German father who hates America; the son who wants to fight for American; the daughter of a rich banker who will do anything to keep the man she loves from going to war. The theme, the intense interaction of the characters involved make for one of the best of Zane Grey. A note of reminder: This was a contemporary novel, written and set and published during the time period it displays, so some of the language may seem dated in places, but true to the period and times. Zane Grey has often been charged with his broad use of colloquialisms, and in some of his later novels it does seem over used, but Zane Grey wrote the way he heard people speak. I highly recommend this version if you can not find or afford the unexpurgated version recently published in 2012 War Comes to the Big Bend.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 353990
- Title
- Desert of Wheat, The
- Author
- Grey, Zane
- Illustrator
- W.H.D. Koerner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- Fiction Novels, Novels, W.H.D. Koerner, .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Novels;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...