Description
Black and white 10″ x 13 1/2″ ad that has a picture of a Zippo lighter lit in front of a shelf full of books and a headline that claims that “Pulitzer Prize author, MacKinlay Kantor, has used this Zippo lighter since 1951. It still works today”. The text under the picture says “The 10-year-old Zippo in our picture has lighted its way through millions of words. Mr. Kantor still uses it every day”. The ad gives some relevancy to the time of its usage. It was already three years old when he started to write Andersonville in 1953. In 1955 the book was published and won a Pulitzer Prize and the Zippo was still working. In 1956 he began writing Spirit Lake which was just published. At the bottom of the ad it shows the normal selection of lighters brought to you from Zippo. It has the Lossproof Zippo for $5.00, the Zippo Slim Lighter for $4.75, the Regular Zippo for $3.50, the Gold Filled Zippo for $20.00, the Engine Turned Zippo for $5.75 and the Zippo Slim Lighter with Ribbon Design for $6.00.
Source: November 3, 1961 Life magazine.
