Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Vintage Big

A Collection of Vintage Big Little Books - A collection of 21 vintage ”Big Little Books, ” a popular small-format book type typically produced from the 1930s through the 1950s. These books feature stiff cardboard covers, brightly illustrated with artwork characteristic of pulp fiction, Western, adventure, and detective genres of the era. Visible titles and characters include ”Gene Autry, ” ”Red Ryder, ” ”Zane Grey's Tex Thorne, ” ”Riders of Lone Trails, ” ”Red Barry Ace Detective, ” ”The Arizona Kid, ” ”Jimmie Allen, ” ”Tim McCoy, ” ”Jack Armstrong, ” ”Prairie Bill, ” ”Will Rogers, ” ”Dan Dunn, ” ”Lions and Tigers, ” ”Lightning Jim, ” ”Tom Beatty, ” ”Frank Buck Ted Towers, ” ”Chester Gump, ” ”Foreign Spies, ” ”Danger Trails, ” ”King of the Royal Mounted, ” ”Skeezix, ” ”My Book of Good Old Stories, ” and ”Lee Brady Range Detective.” Many covers also bear descriptive text such as ”THE BIG LITTLE BOOK, ” ”Based on the Famous Newspaper Strip, ” or ”Based on the Famous Radio Program.” Height: 4.5 inches (11.4 cm) Width: 3.5 inches (8.9 cm) Depth: 1 inch (2.5 cm) (average)