The Call of the Canyon
de Zane Grey
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Bien
- Librería
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1927. Hardcover. Good. Harry Russell Ballinger. Vintage hardcover, missing dust jacket. First Canadian edition. Orange cloth covered boards with black illustration and printing on front and spine. Illustration (in silhouette) shows woman on horseback descending into canyon. Boards are worn with bumped corners, and slightly cocked spine. Prior owner's name on front free end paper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrations on glossy paper, tipped-in; all present, are by noted scenic painter and illustrator Harry Russell Ballinger. (Uncredited, but the paintings are signed.) The Musson Book Company hardcover, no dust jacket. 1924 first edition (stated). 291 pages, illustrated by Harry Russell Ballinger. 12mo (5"" x 7.5"") Canadian reprint of Harper & Brothers first edition. This novel tells the story of Glenn Kilbourne, a US Army veteran, who returns from the battlefields of World War I ""shell-shocked and gassed"", and ""otherwise incapacitated"". It is set in the American West of the Roaring Twenties.
Sinopsis
From the book:What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window. It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet. Glenn has been gone over a year, she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet." She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Year's Eve, 1918. They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carley's friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window, to watch and hear the old year out, the new year in. Glenn Kilbourne had returned from France early that fall, shell-shocked and gassed, and otherwise incapacitated for service in the army-a wreck of his former sterling self and in many unaccountable ways a stranger to her. Cold, silent, haunted by something, he had made her miserable with his aloofness. But as the bells began to ring out the year that had been his ruin Glenn had drawn her close, tenderly, passionately, and yet strangely, too.
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- Librería
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- Título
- The Call of the Canyon
- Autor
- Zane Grey
- Ilustrador
- Harry Russell Ballinger
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1sr Canadian
- Editorial
- Musson Book Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1927
- Páginas
- 291
- Tamaño
- 12mo
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Western
- Catálogos del vendedor
- literature; westerns;
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
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- Reprint
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- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...