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| June 01, 2006 | Devine, Frank | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

COULD IT BE REAL, and within my grasp for $4 Zane Grey's The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border? Not, of course, for $4, a first edition of the 1915 classic, which, with the author's 1912 Riders of the Purple Sage, may reasonably be considered the foundation of a pleasant popular fiction genre, the western, that survived for the best part of a century and whose last sundown may not yet have come, despite unpropitious signs. What I had lucked upon was a 1948 clothbound edition of The Lone Star Ranger published in London by Hamish Hamilton and apparently purchased by its first owner from the International Book House Ltd in Bombay.

I throw in London and ...

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