Description: THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDER by ZANE GREY, A.L. BURT, FIRST EDITION, extremely scarce 1ST PRINTING (red pine cone on spine), 1906--red pine cone edition, in an original, rarely seen, 1st print dust jacket, VG- overall. Three ad pages at end with listing of the Duane Street address for the publisher. Meets all points of the ZGWS guide to ZG first editions for this title. DISCLOSURES: This book was part of personal collection, but it a has library cardholder on the last end page. It does NOT show the wear and large stamps of a circulating copy however. There are two small stamp dates on the book nevertheless. There are some previous owner names within as pictured. More common, but nice are the 3rd printings with a black pine cone on the spine cloth, and with the green Lillian Wilhelm Smith dust jacket. The 1st printing is nearly impossible to find and expect to pay $2.5K or more. Nice book in light blue cloth, Four interior illustrations by J. Watson-Davis, which includes scenes of frontier bondage & torture. First edition, 1st printing for a very serious collector, Zane Grey's 2nd book, and the second book in Zane Grey's Ohio River Trilogy. Even more thrilling than the tales of the West which have made Zane Grey so famous is this breathless story of the frontier—of the high courage of our forefathers who hewed an empire out of trackless wilds. The frontier in the early days was a wild and forbidding place. Surrounded by savage Indians and even more savage renegade whites; the few missionaries and settlers lived in constant danger. There was no law but the law of the long rifle and a man lived only so long as he could shoot faster and straighter than his enemies. Through this story stalks the figure if Wetzel the Avenger whom Indians call the Wind of Death. Implacable enemy of the renegades and their cruel Indian bands, the Avenger wages a lone war to free the border of these marauders. His exploits make a swift tale of rapid action and suspense—one filled with danger and true spirit of the border.
Price: 2450 USD
Location: Buena Park, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: USA
Signed: No
Publisher: A.L. BURT
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1906
Original/Facsimile: Original
California Prop 65 Warning: N.A.
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Illustrator: J. Watson-Davis
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition, Dust Jacket, Ex-Library, Illustrated, Limited Edition
Author: Zane Grey
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Action, Adventure
Unit Quantity: ONE
Character Family: Wetzel
