The Desert of Wheat
by Zane Grey
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/none
- Seller
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Mena, Arkansas, United States
Item Price
$260.00$156.00
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Bros Publishers, 1919 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. VG/none. First Editon, "i" missing from girl on pg 10, line 3. Rebound in black cover. Repair to page 108, fully intact. Page with forward cut out. Stamped in gilt on spine, " Montery County Free Library".Ex- library book with the usual library stamps and card holder. "Returns" stamped Aug 15 1947- Feb 2 '55. Copy right page was cut and glued to second fly page. .
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
- Supercalifabulistic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000026
- Title
- The Desert of Wheat
- Author
- Zane Grey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Bros Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Anti Labor, Farm Workers, Western
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western;
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- Spine
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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...