Riders of the Purple Sage ~ 1912 SIGNED 1st Printing & 1921 Anniversary Edition

Description: 1. Grey, Zane - Riders of the Purple Sage, Harper & Brothers 1912. FIRST EDITION and printing with 1912 in Roman Numerals on the title page and corresponding January 1912 date on the copyright page. Zane Grey's embossed leaf SIGNED BY GREY tipped in after the title. (Rogers, pages 23-25) Illustrated by Douglas Duer. Set in the Southern Utah canyon country of 1871, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time." 8vo, 335 pages - gilt-stamped cloth with a bit of rubbing to the pictorial cover-label with some hand-soiling to the cloth boards; corners rubbed, spine faded with some creasing to the cloth and with tips softened, some toning to a few interior pages, front hinge just beginning to crack and a small bookseller ink notation on the upper rear endpaper. 2. Grey, Zane - Riders of the Purple Sage, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1921 Gift Edition. Due to its huge popularity in America and around the world Harper & Brothers released this Tenth Anniversary Edition in a larger format than the original. It is a first edition and printing with the Harper K-V code and features eleven W. Herbert Dunton full page color illustrations including the frontis. 4to. 336 pages plus 4 pages of ads at rear - Publishers' attractive heavy black cloth with gilt stamped titles to the spine and upper front boards. The front also features the Dunton color paste-on with gilt rule. The book is in very good or better condition with a bump to the lower corners and softening to the spine tips. The interior is clean and unmarked with just light toning to the pages. A great set of these scarce First Editions with the 1912 First Printing featuring the tipped in signed sheet with the Zane Grey library blindtamp.

Price: 849.95 USD

Location: Chester, Vermont

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