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 Collector's
Guide to Zane Grey
By Stuart Wright
September 2005
Introduction
Chronological Listing
including Subsequent Printings with Printing Variants
& Foreign Editions with American Sheets
Harper's Tales of the Frontier Editions
Reference
Introduction
The purpose of this document is to create a chronological listing
of the printed writings of Zane Grey and to create a sequential
accounting of the various editions of his work as published by the
original publishers. This includes a discussion of the many printing
variants of many of the titles.
It appears that in many cases, original publisher sheets were transferred
to new publishers with reprints rights and were used in new casings
indicating the new publisher. Here these are referred to as gTransition
Casingsh and the new publisher is typically indicated on spine
of book and the title page lists original publisher. (The two exceptions
to this are The Last of the Plainsmen and Tales of
Swordfish and Tuna, which has the original publisher on spine
and new publisher on title page (McClurg and Hodder respectively).
It also appears that the original publisher sheets were sent to
the U.K. and utilized in editions there (by Harpers and Hodder).
Here these are classified as gForeign editions with American Sheetsh.
Both of these occurrences are listed in the chronological listing
of the titles as well as their own separate grouping.
It also appears that when reprint rights were transferred to new
publishers, the plates were transferred as well. This listing indicates
published works of other publishers where code letters have been
used. The number of Grosset & Dunlap editions that have code letters
but no corresponding Harper edition suggests that Grosset may have
been modifying the code letters. I have also listed additional publishers
for many titles. These have not been done in any comprehensive way
and do not include the normal Walter Black editions, Colliers editions
or McKinley editions, unless these displayed code letters.
This checklist has been compiled from my own collection, observations
of other Zane Grey collections as well as internet observations.
The five following reference books have extensively used as well
as information from the ZGWS website:
Zane
Grey First Editions, An Analytic Compendium of Determinative
Points, by Lloyd Rogers, Portals Press, 1986.
An Annotated Zane Grey Checklist by G.M. Farley, Amereon
House, Mattituck 1988.
Zane Grey: A Book Checklist, G.M. Farley. Leaves of Autumn
Books, Inc, Payson, AZ (1996)
A Bibliographical Check List and Price Guide for the Writings
of R.C. Grey, Romer Grey and Zane Grey, Country Lane Books
Author Price Guides (for Zane Grey), Patricia and Allen
Ahearn
I am interested in any
corrections or additions to this list that would further the documentation
of the chronological listing of Grey's published works.
Introduction
Chronological Listing
including Subsequent Printings with Printing Variants
& Foreign Editions with American Sheets
Harper's Tales of the Frontier Editions
Reference
Additional Reference on First Editions:
A
Discussion on First Editions
by Paul Schildgen of "Yesterday's Memories",
with excerpts from Lloyd Rogers' book, Zane
Grey First Editions
Variants
of Man of the Forest
Variants
of Sunset Pass
Variants
of The Last of the Plainsmen
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