ZANE GREY - KING OF THE MOUNTIES - 1942 - BOMBING CANADA - BAT meilleur AIRPLANE

ZANE GREY

King of the Mounties

1942

Press book

Based on Zane Greys

"King of the Royal Mounted"

12 pages, 12" x 18", illustrated in red and black, NY

Filmed in Saugus, California.

A Republic Pictures serial in 12 chapters

Note enemy plane "The Falcon"

"that the ax he is using to bomb Canada" a bat shaped airplane

Condition: center fold; else nice and very good

Provenance: Zane Grey estate

Zane Grey was a noted American author best known for his popular

adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the Old West.

"Riders of the Purple Sage"(1912) was his bestselling book.

Credited with over 100 films and a TV series, Dick Powells Zane Grey Theatre,

all based loosely on his novels and short stories.

Greys son Loren claims, in the introduction to "Tales of Tahitian Waters,"

that Zane Grey fished on average 300 days a year throughout his adult life.

Born: 1872, Zanesville, Ohio; died: 1939, Altadena, California.