GIBSON, HOOT. A Little Chat With Hoot Gibson. M.A. Shortle, 1924. First Edition. A little 12 page paperbound book biography. Measures 3 inches wide by 4 1/2 inches tall. Illustrated. Very good. Rare little book, which we have never encountered before in our decades of selling cinema material. Hoot Gibson was a huge silent film western star who starred starting in the teens made the transition to sound films and appeared in westerns through the 1940s.