Riders of the Purple Sage

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Lot 259 | Riders of the Purple Sage
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey, 1912
GREY, Zane (1872-1939). Riders of the Purple Sage. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.

First edition of the author's best-selling Western set in Cottonwoods, Utah. Grey, an author and dentist, is perhaps best known for shaping the Western genre in American literature. Riders of the Purple Sage is the story of Jane Withersteen, a Mormon woman who runs a large cattle ranch she inherited, and Jim Lassister, the gunman who falls for her.

Octavo. (Few fox marks to title.) Original pictorial cloth; pictorial dust jacket (a little chipping to spine panel ends and folds, reinforced with tape to verso; a few small abrasions to rear panel; light spotting to spine panel); custom box.
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