Zane Grey’s Big Australian Novel
Wilderness Trek. Epic of the Australian Never Never Land. Original Typescript, posthumously edited by Loren Grey.
Price: $7,500.00
About the item
Written December 1936 to March 1937. Published: Harper and Brothers, 1944. Typescript, rectos only, on three hole paper, with massive editorial corrections (in pencil and red ink), and typesetter’s marks. Title page with agency stamp, 775 pp. With retyped version of first three pages, proof of the copyright page, carbon copy of a list of books by Zane Grey. 4to. Zane Grey’s Big Australian Novel. Ink number stamp. Some marginal chipping, last two leaves severely chipped and with old cellotape repairs, several leaves with date stamps 1944. Half morocco slipcase and cloth folding wrapper. Cf. Pauly pp. 306-7.
Item #252036
The original typescript of Zane Grey’s big Australian novel, Wilderness Trek, featuring two American cowboys working a cattle drive in the outback, and showing signs of extensive editorial intervention. Pauly reports that the manuscript was cut by two thirds for its posthumous publication in 1944.
