Western Wind by Joyce Collard First Edition Herbert Jenkins 1940. Completely free of any inscriptions and unmarked throughout. Covers are VG in like original pictorial dust jacket, priced at 7/6.

In the sun-baked expanses of the American Southwest, young homesteader Eliza Thorne battles drought and isolation on her inherited ranch, where a relentless western wind stirs both hope and havoc. As dust storms rage, she forms an uneasy alliance with nomadic drifter Caleb Reed, whose arrival unearths family secrets and simmering land feuds. Set amid sagebrush plains and frontier outposts, the tale unfolds with resilient grit and tender vulnerability. Joyce Collard’s fluid prose evokes the land’s raw beauty and cruelty, interweaving romance, betrayal, and self-discovery in a lyrical narrative of endurance, love, and the untamed spirit of the West.

Joyce Collard’s Western Wind enchants readers with its poetic evocation of frontier life, akin to Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! or Laura Ingalls Wilder’s prairie chronicles. Its cultural depth mirrors early 20th-century migration struggles and women’s resilience, enriching American regional literature. Collectors esteem its scarcity within Collard’s understated oeuvre, a poignant entry in women’s Western fiction. Devotees of historical sagas and character-rich dramas savor its atmospheric prose and emotional layers, establishing it as a treasured volume for literary explorers and admirers of heartfelt tales of the American heartland.