This is one lot of 24 hardcover books by Zane Grey. There are duplicate printings of a couple titles. There are three different "The Last Trail" which are all in a row in the first pic. There are two "Wanderer of the Wasteland" (the second copy is in the second batch, the one that looks all black but the title is on the spine in black on black and a facsimile of his signature is on the cover in dark green, and it is likely a 1923 first edition). Some others appear to be first editions with only one date, while others have multiple printings listed.
If you want me to check specifics on a certain book or two, let me know. I don't have time to go through them all right now.
I'm not savvy about old books and values, but I reckon some are worth $25 and others only a couple bucks as reading copies based on a quick internet search. I would guess the baseball book (The Redheaded Outfield) would be the outlier for Zane Grey who mostly wrote frontier stories. That one has 1915 and 1920 dates. The Falcon Books edition of The Last Trail looks newest, possibly from the 1960's, but it only lists the original copyright date of 1906, while the one with a dust jacket has the 1906 copyright plus Triangle Books printing dates ranging from 1938 to 1941. Some are ex-library, some have handwriting on the first few pages, etc. It is a fairly random mix. They belonged to my late/ex father-in-law who lived from 1915 to 1991. He was late before he was ex.
SPF
Anyway, let's just say $100 for the lot, plus shipping. I guess they can go "book rate" (Media Mail) and the whole lot weighs 21 pounds according to my bathroom scale, so call it 24 pounds with box and packing from zip 05491. I'd wager $25 would get them clear across the country, likely less if closer.
The pics of the spines below the pics of the covers are in the same order as the covers:
If you want me to check specifics on a certain book or two, let me know. I don't have time to go through them all right now.
I'm not savvy about old books and values, but I reckon some are worth $25 and others only a couple bucks as reading copies based on a quick internet search. I would guess the baseball book (The Redheaded Outfield) would be the outlier for Zane Grey who mostly wrote frontier stories. That one has 1915 and 1920 dates. The Falcon Books edition of The Last Trail looks newest, possibly from the 1960's, but it only lists the original copyright date of 1906, while the one with a dust jacket has the 1906 copyright plus Triangle Books printing dates ranging from 1938 to 1941. Some are ex-library, some have handwriting on the first few pages, etc. It is a fairly random mix. They belonged to my late/ex father-in-law who lived from 1915 to 1991. He was late before he was ex.
SPF
Anyway, let's just say $100 for the lot, plus shipping. I guess they can go "book rate" (Media Mail) and the whole lot weighs 21 pounds according to my bathroom scale, so call it 24 pounds with box and packing from zip 05491. I'd wager $25 would get them clear across the country, likely less if closer.
The pics of the spines below the pics of the covers are in the same order as the covers:
