THE LONE RANGER AND THE SILVER BULLET; Written by FRAN STRIKER / and based on the famous Lone Ranger adventures / created by Geo. W. Trendle
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1948. Paul Laune. First G&D Edition: #10 in Series. Cloth. 8vo, tan pictorial cloth with dark red lettering stamped on spine and front cover plus dark red silhouette of the mounted Lone Ranger; archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting the Lone Ranger halting Silver on a precipice; B&W frontispiece by Paul Laune; pictorial dark-red endpapers by Paul Laune depicting the fighting Lone Ranger, publisher's dark red topstain, 210 pages + [2] Advert. Very Good / Good +. Item #6909
Tenth the Lone Ranger series (#10 on spine.) Copyright 1948 but slightly later. Jacket identifies author as Fran Striker. Jacket front flap advertises upcoming The Lone Ranger On The Powderhorn Trail (11th in the series, 1949.)
Cloth is tight with some wear; topstain clean and bright; pages uniformly slightly age-toned but without marks. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Chips to the top of dj's spine and lower edge of rear panel; wear to edges and corners; lightly soiled price-clipped dust jacket.
Overall, VERY GOOD COPY: a Very Difficult edition to get in better cloth and--especially--a better dust jacket.
Price: $40.00