New York: Grosset & Dunlap. (1923). Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Red boards. Both the spine and the decorative front board are stamped in black. 419pps., plus ads. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends and very light foxing to the endpapers and page-edges. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has modest chipping to the extremities and a 1" closed tear -- with an attendant crease -- at the top of the front panel. A very nice copy.

"...Adam Larey believes himself guilty of a terrible crime and goes into the solitude of the Great American Desert to expiate it. He and his brother had quarreled over a pretty Mexican girl, and Adam had shot the other boy, and rushed away, thinking he had killed his brother. There are other people in the wastelands who for various strange reasons are avoiding cities and civilization, and Adam, who is a young giant, defends helpless women, rescues a gold prospector whose claim has been jumped and who is being abused by bandits, and finally falls in love with the girl who is instrumental in bringing him back to civilization..."

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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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Title: Wanderer of The Wasteland
Author: Grey, Zane
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Place of Publication: New York

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