1940s–50s Children's Books Featuring Gene Autry
Item Details
A collection of children’s books based on popular Western heroes from television and other media. This collection includes three hardcover tie-in novels published by the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin: Gene Autry and the Badmen of Broken Bow (circa 1951), Red Ryder and the Mystery of Whispering Walls (c. 1941) and two editions of Gene Autry and the Thief River Outlaws (c. 1944). Also included is the hardcover novel Rin Tin Tin and the Ghost Wagon Train (Screen Gems, Inc., c. 1958) and the paperback coloring book Hi-Yo, Silver!: Cut-Out Coloring Book Featuring the Lone Ranger (Giant Funtime Books-Pocket Books, c. 1958).
| Binding | Mass market paperback |
| Number of Books | 6 |
Condition
- to fair; wear and tear to dust jackets; page yellowing; edge and corner wear; loose hinges; one copy of Thief River Outlaws has name written in pen on front cover and pen drawing to endpaper; other Thief River Outlaws has name written on endpaper and library stamp on flyleaf; bowing of coloring book; coloring book has been colored.
Dimensions
- measures Hi-Yo, Silver!
Item #
17BOS202-055
