The Thundering Herd
Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1925. Grosset & Dunlap, New York (1925). Orange paper over boards, black design and lettering, Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwest’s inhospitable Staked Plain. Seeing huge herds there, he thinks of getting rich off their hides. He proves efficient as a skinner, and what follows is almost a literal baptism in sweat and blood. Fighting the Comanches and Kiowas, some unscrupulous white hunters, and his own conscience, he ages fast—all the faster in facing obstacles to love’s consummation with Milly.
The Thundering Herd, originally published in 1925, is Zane Grey’s great lament for the passing of the buffalo. Grounded in the author’s sense of western history, it shows. Good, not great, spine is discolored with small stain, some moisture marks on front edge / NO DJ. Item #895
Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1925. Stated First Edition. Good, not great, spine is discolored with small stain, some moisture marks on front edge. It claims four Illustration and there is only two. Orange paper over boards, black design and lettering,
Price: $40.00