R151 National Chicle Tom Mix Booklets Lot of (20) Booklets

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/27/2019

Between 1909 and 1935, Tom Mix appeared in 291 films. Of these 291 films, all but 9 were silent pictures. Mix's white cowboy hat and on-screen persona cemented him as Hollywood's first Western star. He was a guaranteed success at the box office and starred with all the leading ladies of the day. Mix helped define the Western genre of films and lead them from the silent pictures into the dawn of the talking motion pictures we know today. Toward the end of his unparalleled career, National Chicle issued this set of (48) booklets around 1934. The booklets were issued in two series, the second of which is prohibitively more difficult to acquire than the first. Rarely are single copies of high number booklets found and to find a complete set of (48) with all (24) high numbers intact would be very rare.

This lot includes (19) low series booklets and a single high number booklet. The low series numbers included are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23 and 24. The low number booklets are mostly in VGEX to EX condition with just a couple lesser. The high number booklet is #41 with what appears to be a marker stain that is red on the upper right border.