“Tales of Tahitian Waters”, Zane Grey First Edition, 1931

Zane Grey, “Tales of Tahitian Waters”. First Edition, 1931. This is a clean copy but has no dust jacket. It is in red buckram covers with illustrated endpapers and many photographs taken by the author and his brother. These fascinating true tales of his time in Tahiti, of his fishing adventures, his day trips, the people he met and their culture, and the boat and sailing lore, are all great and exciting reading. The success of Zane Grey’s Western novels made him rich, and allowed him to buy his own three-masted schooner and to indulge his love of sailing, deep sea fishing, wandering, exploring, and writing that brings the reader along with him on his adventures.
The opening line is, “When the “S.S. Tahiti” entered the roadstead off Papeete on May 30, 1928, I espied my yacht “Fisherman” shinning like a great white gull against the wonderful rich bright green of this tropic island.”
The publishing information is: New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. Tales of Tahitian Waters. Copyright, 1931, by Zane Grey. Printed in the U.S.A. First Edition, I-F”. 303 pages.
Good condition, with rubbed edges, good binding, slight wrinkling of the buckram cloth along the top of the front cover, no dust jacket.