WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND
by Grey, Zane
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1923) 419+pp. Original red pictorial cloth covers, lightly soiled. Spine ends slightly bumped. Inscription to previous owner on front blank endpaper. DJ has wear to edges. Approx. 1" loss to bottom of spine. Mild chipping to corners and top of spine. Illust. w/ scenes from the technicolor photoplay. Contents nice.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Reviews
On May 12 2020, a reader said:
For those of us who are nearing senior citizen age, there is no greater novelist of the West than Zane Grey. And indeed for the younger set, this book will probably not appeal to them, for it is long, and tedious at times. But the descriptions of the desert and of the times and of the people who Wansfell encounters in his search for self and for redemption over the "killing" of his brother are enough to counter the slowness of the novel. And yes, the book may seem dated in its style and colloquial language the characters use, but that is exactly how Zane Grey heard people speak when he encountered them in his travels in the West. I have been a Zane Grey fan for over 40 years, and purchase every "new" book which is published, including those about the man, and it is easy to see that Wanderer of the Wasteland is autobiographical in nature--his life's story, his struggles, his losses, his journey of self discovery as to what the desert meant to him, and how nature and environment shapes lives. Don't dismiss this novel as "just another romance" by Zane Grey, but embrace it for what it was intended to be Zane Grey's Masterpiece--a story to be taken into one's own heart and used to reflect on one's own life. But even if you don't want to do that, this is still a book one can enjoy simply for the adventure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21521PHOP
- Title
- WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND
- Author
- Grey, Zane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Keywords
- PHOTOPLAY MOVIES WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND 1924 WESTERN CLASSICS GREY ZANE 1872 1939 PERFORMING ARTS ENTERTAINMENT ACTORS ACTRESSES HOLT JACK 1888 1951 MASON JAMES NEVILLE 1909 1984 BEERY NOAH 1882 1946 DOVE BILLIE 1903 1997 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS FICTITIOU
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photoplay; Western;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...