Riders of the Purple Sage by Grey, First Edition (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. REPRINT UNCUT UNCENSORED EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. the boards are a bit edge worn, spine has been repaired. mild foxing, all pages are intact and legible. 1st omnibus edition. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. 1949. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Signed by the previous owner. Publication of 256 pages. The dust jacket is worn. The boards are in good condition. There is foxing on the block of the book and on the early and last pages. The text is legible. Tightly Bound and protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. 1949. First Edition. 256 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Considerable loss to spine ends.

Softcover. Duer, Douglas (illustrator). First Edition Thus; Sixth Printing. Near Fine in wraps. ; Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading; 288 pages.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in stiff wraps. Silk ribbon page marker. Very light shelfwear on spine heel and panel corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey ***One of the most successful, popular and influential western novels ever written.*** First edition, first printing, second state. In original tan cloth, gilt lettering and pictorial pastedown on head of top cover. With correct 3-line publishing statement on copyright page and matching correct date of 1912 in Roman numerals on title page. This copy also has publisher adverts of other Zane Grey titles on the copyright page, all of which were published before Riders of the Purple Sage. NOTE: This would make this copy a later state as the first state had no publisher adverts on the copyright page. There is also a later printing of the first edition in 1912 but it has a copyright code. Several months after Riders was first published in January of 1912 is when Harper began using its well-known copyright codes. CONDITION: VERY GOOD Riders of the Purple Sage is considered by literary scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called "the most popular western novel of all time" and has been made into several Hollywood film adaptations. The setting is Southern Utah canyon country, 1871. The influx of Mormon settlers from 1847 to 1857 serves as a backdrop for the plot. The Mormons had been living in Kirtland, Ohio, in the 1830s, but ventured west to escape local religious persecution. Condition Report: VG Slight spine lean and front hinge just a bit loose. Spots of soiling to cloth and page edges. Rubbed spine tips and corners. Small cut at heel of spine. Spine gilt has sun-darkened and faxed. Original owner book owner stamps on front endpapers along with owner inscription and date of September 9, 1912. Text block is generally clean and bright but with a periodic smudge or light spot of foxing. A few pages with creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Duer, Douglas (illustrator). First. First edition (Published January, 1912 with matching roman numerals at bottom of title page), very good cloth hardcover with gilt letter and illustration at top portion of front cover shows touch of soil and shelf wear to covers including light dulling to gilt letter at spine, touch of soil to page edges, name at top of front endpaper and top of page 1 as well, along with some other light trace wear, married to a good, later, Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket that shows exposure toning along spine, wrinkling, rubbing, soil and staining, and edgewear that includes closed tears and open chipping, and tape mends as well, and even with all this still looks decent. 335 pages with four illustrations by Duer including tissued frontispiece. Still a pleasing first edition copy of this classic western that is arguably one of the best ever.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 335 pages; true first edition published in 1912. Very light cover wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 335 pages; true first edition published in 1912. Very tight and clean inside. Very light wear to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Dunton edition. 8vo. 336pp plus 5 pp. of publisher's ads. Black cloth, gilt spine and upper board and with a full color paste-on to the upper board. First printing of the Dunton illustrated edition with the proper codes on the copyright page. Frontispiece and eleven full page color plates by Dunton. Modern presentation plate mounted to front free endpaper ("Paul from Mary"), possibly over an earlier inscription. Spine gilt darkened, light wear to the corners but a very good copy and rare in first Dunton printing. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Dunton edition. 8vo. 336pp plus 5 pp. of publisher's ads. Black cloth, gilt spine and upper board and with a full color paste-on to the upper board. First printing of the Dunton illustrated edition with the proper codes on the copyright page. Frontispiece and eleven full page color plates by Dunton. Spine gilt darkened, light wear to the corners but a very good copy and rare in first Dunton printing. .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition "published January 1912" with corresponding date in Roman numerals on ttlepage. Illustrated by Douglas Duer. Octavo. Light brown cloth stamped in gold and purple, front cover with pictorial paper onlay. Small tear on front flyeaf at top corner with archival mend, gilt lettering on spine a bit dull, faint rubbing on front cover onlay, else a near fine, bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition of Grey's most popular novel--"Perhaps the most famous Western of all." With "Published January 1912" on copyright page and same date in Roman numerals on title page; does not have a list of Grey's previous books in a boxed border on copyright page. Hardcover 8vo, 334 pages with four black and white plates including tissue guard over frontispiece. Lacking the extremely scarce dust jacket but with a near fine color plate on front cover. Slight lean to spine. Light bumping and chipping to boards. Light toning to spine, with some fraying to ends. A few small impressions to rear board. A fresh and lovely copy of this iconic piece of Americana that presumably hits all the first edition first state points.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Douglas Duer (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good, reasonably crisp copy. Small dirt spot on rear cover. Some rubbing to pictorial label affixed to front board. Some darkening to spine. Tight hinges, Vintage pencil ownership name and date 5/4/12 on flyleaf. A few bibliographic notes in light pencil on rear free endpaper could be carefully erased if desired. No other markings. Copyright page states Published January 1912 and same date in Roman numerals on title page. Tan cloth, gilt titles. No jacket. All five b&w plates intact as well as tissue guard over frontispiece.

First Edition. Hard cover. 8vo. 335pp. First Edition with proper 1912 date and "H-A". Clean, crisp, AS NEW condition. Great addition to any collection .Satisfaction guaranteed.