I also love the material in Sunday's sale, including the 1943 book from
Grauman's Chinese theater. I further agree with Phil that some of the press
and/or campaign items he cited might be undervalued - because I haven't see
them in great numbers. "John Citizen, U.S.A." - as the original title of
"Citizen Kane" - is a crack-up. It sounds like the title to a Capra film.
Another oddity to me personally is the 1964 "Mary Poppins" comb-bound
book/press kit with a whopping 32 b/w stills that Bruce says was a "Disney
experiment" to get exhibitors to book the film. I've seen many 11 x 17 Mary
Poppins pressbooks and press kits from 1964, but never a thick publicity binder
specific to this film - that isn't a retail souvenir. I imagine the
"experiment" failed because it was too cumbersome to ship binders jammed with
real photos for just one movie.
6p042 MARY POPPINS presskit w/ 32 stills '64 Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke in
Disney's musical!
Also buried among the Poppins items closing Sunday is a trade mag for
exhibitors that has a color world premiere announcement ad. Finally, I'm also
curious about how the auction catalogs will fare, particularly those published
by Heritage. - d.
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 02:05:21 +0000
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FA: 28 ultra rare studio year books & exhibitor magazines at
auction close Sunday; many great ones, many great bargains
To: [email protected]
I love the 1941 RKO book with the early announcement of CITIZEN KANE under the
title JOHN CITIZEN USA.
These are the real curiosites of film history and the studio books, generally I
feel, are undervalued.
Some of the art that appears in them is often superior to the final art used on
posters. One would think that a lavish book just of trade ads
would be a welcome addition to the printed histroy of film. The book THE LOST
ART OF HOLLYWOOD few years ago was good, but there is so much more promise
buried in the
vaults of tradead art that is out there.
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Hershenson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 07:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MOPO] FA: 28 ultra rare studio year books & exhibitor magazines at
auction close Sunday; many great ones, many great bargains
I want to let you know that we have
a small but excellent selection of 28 of them ending
SUNDAY afternoon (they are the
first items
in this set of auctions; see them all at
this link:
http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/1/15.html),
February 3rd beginning at
3 PM CST (NOT 7 PM CST like our Tuesday & Thursday auctions).
IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO FIND INCREDIBLY SCARCE ITEMS, THEN
LOOK NO FURTHER! PLUS, I JUST LOOKED OVER THE 28 ENDING SUNDAY, AND MANY OF
THEM ARE FAR
UNDER WHERE THE SAME OR SIMILAR ITEMS HAVE SOLD FOR IN THE PAST!
With just two days to go, many of these are currently at VERY reasonable
prices. Here are
just a few of the best ones (the below are links, and the ones that don't have
images have icons
at the end that link to images):
6p001 PATHE 1930-31 campaign book '30 wonderful signed art of their top
stars and upcoming movies!
6p003 RKO CAMPAIGN BOOK 1940/41 campaign book '40 Citizen Kane when it was
John Citizen U.S.A.!
6p002 RADIO PICTURES 1929 - 1930 campaign book '29 sensational full-color
ads with lurid artwork!
6p026 SHOW exhibitor magazine '37-38 special issue entirely on The
Hurricane!
6p004 COLUMBIA PICTURES 1940-1941 campaign book '40 incredible full-color
ads with great art!
6p018 MOVING PICTURE WORLD exhibitor magazine January 21, 1911 cool ads
from 100 year old studios!
6p010
20TH CENTURY FOX 1977 campaign book '76 Star Wars, Wizards, Silver Streak &
many more!
6p013
UNIVERSAL WEEKLY exhibitor magazine August 5, 1933 wacky teaser Invisible Man
comic book ad!
and on and on and on and on!
Don't forget to
check out our 28 studio year books or exhibitor magazines at auction
(there are less than two days to go before they start to end
SUNDAY afternoon,
February 3rd beginning at 3 PM CST), or view all of the 999 studio
yearbooks, books, trade-ads, pressbooks, auction catalogs, & more in this set
of auctions now
by going to
http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/15.html--
Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team
P.O. Box 874
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Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take
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