The Arizona Clan by Zane Grey, Pocket Books
The front cover features stylized art of a cowboy wielding a six-shooter.
The Arizona Clan (1958) is a Western novel by Zane Grey, one of many published by Harper and Brothers (now HarperCollins, a part of News Corp.) after his death in 1939. Shown here is the first paperback edition published by Pocket Books in 1966.
From the back cover:
Ex-gunslinger, Dodge Mercer, hungry for the quiet life, drifts west looking for a spread of his own.
In the rugged Tonto Basin country, he meets up with the struggling Lilley clan—hard-drinking old Rock, his six sons and beautiful daughter Nan.
The Lilleys—mysteriously connected with the fiery moonshine liquor known as Arizona white mule—are in bad trouble. And when Dodge meets their conniving neighbor, Buck Hathaway, he knows he is close to solving the mystery. It is a solution that nearly costs him his life as he matches wits and guns in a blazing showdown.
On the front cover, Grey’s name is set in Benguiat Indian (Photo-Lettering, c.1965), in alternating purple/magenta color. The title set in stretched Grotesque #479 (also by Photo-Lettering, by 1965), a film typeface that looks like a cross between ATF’s Alternate Gothic and Swell Type’s Thornwood. The subtitle is in Grotesque No. 9 Italic (Stephenson Blake, 1949). Catalog number and price tag set in Alternate Gothic No. 1 (ATF, 1903).
Author and title on the spine are set in Akzidenz-Grotesk (bold/Serie 58).
The tagline on the back cover is set in Grotesque No. 9 Italic. The synopsis uses News Gothic while “FICTION” is set in Alternate Gothic. The publisher info is probably set in Copperplate Gothic.
