The Drift Fence
by GREY, Zane
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Light blue mesh cloth with dark blue lettering and rules, pictorial dust jacket. 314pp. Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear to otherwise-bright jacket. Shockingly tight and bright reprint edition of this 1932 shoot-'em-up set in Arizona involving (to cite jacket flap) "Traft, powerful cattleman and owner of the Diamond...." This superbly fresh copy has a choice autograph twist: Tipped to the blank leaf facing the title page is a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card boldly signed and inscribed in blue fineline by Benny Baker, n.p., dated by him "Nov 26 -- 84" at upper right; below his signature, he adds "P.S. Thanks for remembering me." Baker (1907-94), who played Jim Traft in the 1936 film version of the novel, was a popular actor and comedian in more than fifty films of the 1930s and '40s. Laid in is the ideal bookmark: Baker's original transmittal envelope. Unusual copy!
Reviews
On Feb 1 2021, a reader said:
This novel and its companion work, The Hash Knife Outfit, need to be read together to get the full effect of what Zane Grey was trying to depict. Be sure to read this one first. This is another Tonto Basin story, based in fact, told with the excitement and language inflictions only Zane Grey could tell. The embodiment of the story is this: Jim Traft had never been west. He didn't know cattle. But his uncle makes him foreman of the Diamond ranch. Molly Dunn, the sister of the fastest gunfighter in the Tonto, Slinger Dunn, who by the way, threatens to hang Jim Traft's hide on the drift fence being built, falls in love with Jim. This is their story, of how Jim Traft earned the respect of his cowboys, fought to save the ranch from rustlers, and win Molly Dunn. I highly recommend it.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47264
- Title
- The Drift Fence
- Author
- GREY, Zane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- n.y.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
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