Zane Grey - (A Novel by)
Subtitle: Captives of the Desert (prev, publ. in serial form as ''Desert Bound.'')
Series: Series Title: Story published Serially under the title "Desert Bound."
Publisher: McCall Company, Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, by arrangement with Harper & Brother
Published: 1925, 1926, 1952
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
Copyright date: 1925, 1926 by McCall Company (In serial form under title Desert Bound LOC 52-5441)
Other titles: Desert Bound
Description: While attempting to save an Indian child, rugged John Curry is injured, when he is thrown from his horse. He is rescued by a woman whose drunken, jealous and scheming husband, Wilbur Newton, becomes his deadly enemy; Wilbur fears Curry will try to stop an ingenious scheme that threatens the desert Indians. unless Curry rides again, three people will die - and one of them is Curry! 

John Curry is a cowboy in the Arizona desert that has the misfortune to fall in love with a married woman, Mary Newman and he keeps his distance, when he learns her husband is a shiftless drunkard, involved in the illegal sale of watered down alcohol to the Indians. John's biggest concern is that Mary will be hurt, when she discovers what her husband is up to, or if he is arrested. Wilbur Newman leaves his wife, but John's chance to be with Mary still is not to be .. even though Mary and Wilbur's marriage is a bad and unhappy one, she looks for his return to her life. Her father's death and her inheritance complicate matters even more; in this story, the road to a happy ending, faces many rocky twists and turns.
Notes: 1925: Black's Readers Service Company (1926)
1925, 1926: Copyright held by McCall Company for **serial form story, under title Desert Bound (LOC 52-5441)**
Although there is no proof to the truth or fiction of what I am about to query, my take on the confusion caused by information contained in book, coupled with various pieces of web information, this Zane Grey novel #1) appears to have originally been written and titled ''Desert Bound,'' #2 passed to McCall Company, either in serial form, or changed to serial form for McCall Magazine to publish in their issues (?), #3) copyrighted in 1925 & 1926 to be published in same magazine for those periods of time.

On the copyright page of the Grosset & Dunlap (by arrangement with Harper and Brothers) 1952 published novel, ''Captives of the Desert,'' the original copyright (text & title?) is held by the McCall Company. It appears to me that, had the copyright for ''Desert Bound'' been held by Zane Grey, instead of McCall Company, would there have been a need for any heir of Zane Grey to rename and republish the story, in New York, by Harper [1952, c1926]? This editors opinion only [with Absence of Malice].