WILDFIRE
by Grey, Zane
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. Red hardcover cloth binding clean square and tight. Foxing, but overall clean and tight interior. 255 pages. DJ has lots of shelfwear, overall white with cowboy on rearing chestnut horse illustration. Light soiling, protected in clean Brodart. Story of a great wild stallion finally tamed by a man and a girl.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st This Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Good.
Synopsis
From the book:For some reason the desert scene before Lucy Bostil awoke varying emotions - a sweet gratitude for the fullness of her life there at the Ford, yet a haunting remorse that she could not be wholly content - a vague loneliness of soul - a thrill and a fear for the strangely calling future, glorious, unknown. She longed for something to happen. It might be terrible, so long as it was wonderful. This day, when Lucy had stolen away on a forbidden horse, she was eighteen years old. The thought of her mother, who had died long ago on their way into this wilderness, was the one drop of sadness in her joy. Lucy loved everybody at Bostil's Ford and everybody loved her. She loved all the horses except her father's favorite racer, that perverse devil of a horse, the great Sage King. Lucy was glowing and rapt with love for all she beheld from her lofty perch: the green-and-pink blossoming hamlet beneath her, set between the beauty of the gray sage expanse and the ghastliness of the barren heights; the swift Colorado sullenly thundering below in the abyss; the Indians in their bright colors, riding up the river trail; the eagle poised like a feather on the air, and a beneath him the grazing cattle making black dots on the sage; the deep velvet azure of the sky; the golden lights on the bare peaks and the lilac veils in the far ravines; the silky rustle of a canyon swallow as he shot downward in the sweep of the wind; the fragrance of cedar, the flowers of the spear-pointed mescal; the brooding silence, the beckoning range, the purple distance.
Reviews
On Apr 12 2020, a reader said:
What Jack London did for dogs in Call of the Wild, Zane Grey did for horses in Wildfire. This is indeed the story of a magnificent wild stallion, his capture, his love for a girl, and his race against odds so large, only Zane Grey could imagine and put on paper. The geographic region ZG describes is known today as Monument Valley and you can see his love and his realness in his description; and if you've ever been there, which I have, you can see Wildfire running again in your mind's eye among the turrets, and the shattered upheaval of rock. Also, in the story is how the two main characters Lin Sloan and Lucy Bostil fall in love with the horse's help, of course; and the horse thief who wants to steal this magnificent animal. But the romance is secondary to the story of the horse. Read if for yourself, and see if I am right in my evaluation of this book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012775
- Title
- WILDFIRE
- Author
- Grey, Zane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st This Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Adult; Horses - Adult Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Deja Vu Books
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About the Seller
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About Deja Vu Books
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- Cloth
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- Brodart
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