BETTY ZANE - USED , GOOD

This is a fascinating piece of Western literary history. While it might look like a standard reprint at first glance due to the Grosset & Dunlap name, the specific internal plates and text layout reveal a much more significant story.

About the Book & Historical Context

• Title: Betty Zane

• Author: Zane Grey

• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (Printed using the original plates of the Charles Francis Press)

• Illustrator: Louis F. Grant

• The Backstory: Betty Zane was Zane Grey's very first novel. He wrote it about his real-life ancestor, Elizabeth "Betty" Zane, a heroine of the American Revolutionary War who famously saved Fort Henry in 1782 by running a gauntlet of gunfire to fetch gunpowder.

• The "Vanity" Connection: No major publisher would take a chance on an unknown dentist-turned-writer at the time, so Grey famously used his wife Lina's savings to self-publish the book in 1903. He hired the Charles Francis Press in New York to print a small run (estimated around 2,000 copies). Shortly afterward, Grosset & Dunlap stepped in, bought the rights (and the physical printing plates), and reissued the book.

this is a First Grosset & Dunlap Edition (circa 1913–1914).