ATTENTION! The Notes and Shipping Details shown below apply SOLELY to the 666 programs, heralds, sheet music, and miscellaneous items we are auctioning from 1/7 to 1/14, and may well NOT apply to our regular weekly auctions. If you are looking for details about any other of our weekly auctions, please check our Special Notes Archive.

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HERE IS A CHART OF THE ITEMS IN THIS AUCTION:
(to better help you find the sizes and countries that interest you)

9r001-9r004 mini window cards
9r005-9r009 silk, cloth, & Mexican banners
9r010-9r020 door hanger, standees, Italian & English pressbooks
9r021-9r026 English poster magazine, Academy Award programs & ballots
9r027-9r030 special Graduate mortarboard, silk scarf, magazines, comic book
9r031-9r037 marketing guide, teacher's guide, story book, special 12x20 posters
9r038-9r060 5x7 fan photos with facsimile autographs and mailing envelopes
9r061-9r156 U.S. heralds
9r157-9r201 Spanish heralds
9r202-9r323 Belgian, French, English, and U.S. sheet music
9r324-9r328 Austrian, Italian, and Australian programs
9r329-9r364 German, French, and English programs
9r365-9r472 U.S. programs (an amazing collection including Citizen Kane and Birth of a Nation!)
9r473-9r548 Danish programs
9r549-9r666 Japanese programs

About This Week's Items
     Note that this is a "catch-all" week, where we auction certain types of items that DO fit in our standard sized mailers, but are NOT posters (this time it is heralds, programs, sheet music, and some "special" items). We will occasionally auction items like these in future catch all weeks, but they will NOT be the same exact types of items as the ones we are selling this week (unless we get consigned more of these types, of course!).  So if you like any of the sizes and types of items we are auctioning this week, know that we have not sold these types of items for quite some time, and we likely will not sell them again for a long time!
     One final important note: While most of the items we are auctioning this week are roughly 11" x 14" (either as they are, or when they are fully folded), A FAIR NUMBER of the items (mostly some of the heralds [but not all], and the Danish programs, and a small number of the remaining items) are quite a bit smaller. We are charging our standard $10 U.S. shipping this week, but if you solely purchase those smaller items, then we will package the item(s) much smaller, and we will only charge you the lower shipping rate (if you have already paid the $10 U.S. shipping, we will automatically refund you the difference between the actual lower cost and what you paid). This is especially important if you live outside the U.S., because a smaller package will cost far less.  But of course, if you purchase smaller items along with larger items then we will need to package them together in one of our standard-size packages, and you will pay the $10 U.S. shipping (actual cost elsewhere).

About the Heralds, Program Books, and Sheet Music We Are Currently Auctioning
     Many collectors are not aware of heralds which are basically tiny posters that were given away to theaters to entice people into that theater.  Others are not aware of program books, which were either given away to those who bought a ticket, or more often, were sold as souvenirs in theater lobbies, and others are not aware of sheet music that was created for the popular songs of almost every movie from 1915 on.  Program books are usually filled with images (sometimes color) that are sometimes not seen anywhere else, and lots of them have much written information about the movies.  Sheet music often has a cool image on the front, sometimes one not used in other advertising. 
     All three of these types of items often provide one of the absolute most affordable ways of getting an original first release item from titles that otherwise sell for "out of this world" prices!  Note that all of these items we are auctioning this week come from longtime collectors, and included in those collections are some extremely rare titles, and many of the items are in really excellent condition (they were either never used, or were used once and then carefully stored away).  If you spent years and years looking for these items, you probably would not be able to find all of the ones offered in this single set of auctions!

About the 30 Unusual Promotional Items at the Start of Our Items
     At the beginning of this auction are some rare mini window cards and other unusual promotional items (30 in all).  While items like these were made for virtually every movie from the 1910s to the 1960s, very, very few of them survive (likely because they are unusual shapes and sizes, and not nearly as many theaters ordered them as ordered regular posters and lobby cards).  We almost never are consigned items like these, and we know they are very under-appreciated and under-valued!

About the Condition of the Items We Are Currently Auctioning
     Note that we give a detailed overall condition grade to every item we sell ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", and "good", with only a few graded "fair" or lesser) along with more details about the condition described in words (but pretty much a general description of the defects, and we only describe specific defects if they are the type that CAN'T be seen in our super-sized images, or if the item is especially valuable). We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily. Of course, we still strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the poster for minor defects that we did NOT describe.  Of course, with the items that have many pages, we could not photograph every single page, but we often photograph both covers and an interior two-page spread, which should surely give you an excellent idea of the overall condition of that item.

Payment Options
We accept all major credit cards, either directly over the phone at 417-256-9616 during our regular business hours which are Monday to Friday, 9 AM CST to 5 PM CST except between 12 and 1 when we take lunch, or you can e-mail us payment details, and there are still a few people who fax us!

If you like to pay via Paypal (our PayPal e-mail is "mail@emovieposter.com"), that is fine, but know that PayPal has many glitches, and you should ABSOLUTELY e-mail us separately when you send us a PayPal payment!

You can send a check or money order (if you do, enclose your address and details about what you purchased) to:
Bruce Hershenson
Attn: Payments
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775

If it is your best payment option, you can pay by Western Union (unlike SOME auction sites, we are not prejudiced against Western Union!). But please don't send cash (as we can't be responsible for lost cash)!

U.S. buyers need to enclose $10 shipping (which includes full insurance)! 
      Why have we raised our base U.S. shipping rate (by just $1)? Because we held the $9 rate for two years, through many raises in Postal and UPS rates, and we absorbed many losses, but we are currently losing so much on shipping that we must finally raise our base rate to $10 on our standard sized packages which is just $1 more than we used to charge and far less than what many other auctions charge.

Will your order be shipped to you by UPS?
     UPS does NOT automatically require a signature to deliver packages, so if you want the signature to be required, you will need to pay the extra $2.50 UPS charges for "signature required" Delivery Confirmation, and please realize that they will then NOT leave the package, and you may well have to go to the UPS facility yourself to pick it up.  But if you prefer this, that is fine, and if you have any other special requirements, please tell us when you are paying for your order.  IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THAT YOU WANT SIGNATURE REQUIRED, THEN YOUR PACKAGE WILL BE SENT WITHOUT SIGNATURE REQUIRED!

You CAN usually combine shipment!

NOTE: These Thursday items need to be sent in flat packages so... *they can be combined with these auctions: Sunday January 3rd movie magazines, presskits, glass slides, and German programs Tuesday January 5th Australian and German posters Thursday January 7th single lobby cards Tuesday January 12th folded one-sheets Sunday January 17th movie magazines, presskits, glass slides, and German programs *they must be sent separately from these auctions for an additional shipping charge: Sunday January 10th rolled 27" x 40" one-sheets and bulk lots Sunday January 17th bulk lots Tuesday January 19th rolled non-U.S. posters Thursday January 21st rolled 27" x 41" one-sheets

Note that we not only allow you to combine as many items as you want from a single set of Tuesday, Thursday, and/or Sunday auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge for all of the items, but we also allow you to wait until the next five sets of auctions end (a total of six sets of auctions) so that you can combine your current purchases with those of our following auctions (if possible), and that means there is a chance you could combine items from up to six of our sets of auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge (assuming those items fit into the same type of package). We KNOW there are other sellers who charge a little less on shipping than we do, but we know that our packaging is the best there is, and our orders virtually never arrive damaged (and on the very rare times that they do, all our U.S. packages are fully insured, and FULL INSURANCE IS INCLUDED IN THE U.S. SHIPPING CHARGE).

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE $10 U.S. SHIPPING!

Non-U.S. buyers must pay the actual cost of shipping their order (you can choose whatever method you prefer, but know that the U.S. Post Office has eliminated Surface Mail, so we can only send via Express or Airmail), plus $2 for the best packaging materials you have ever seen.  All non-U.S. buyers must tell us if they want the package sent insured or uninsured at the time they pay for their order.

Have you heard about our Pay and Hold Program?
This lets non-U.S. buyers pay for their purchases from 4 consecutive weeks (a total of 12 auctions and around 8,000+ items!), and we then send all your purchases at once saving you LOTS of money!  Click HERE to learn more (if you are not one of the hundreds of our non-U.S. buyers who are already part of this program)

     IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please bear these approximate shipping cost in mind BEFORE you place a bid (if you live outside the U.S.). The vast majority of our customers want a very securely packed tube, and will pay the extra shipping cost involved (and of course, it goes to the Post Office or UPS, and not us!). Please do not ask us to pack less securely, as that would likely result in a damaged order.
    Some sellers are sending by Ground UPS to Canada, but that incurs large "brokerage fees", so we do not recommend it.  Note that there are also some sellers sending non-U.S. packages via a "Letter" rate, but of course this is not legal, and we can not do this.  We have outlined the possibilities for sending non-U.S. packages above, so please read that carefully, BEFORE placing a bid!

Do you have a friend or relative who lives in the United States?
Some of our customers either visit the U.S. regularly, or have friends or relatives within the U.S., and often those customers have us send their orders to a U.S. address, and then they transport the posters from there. THIS CAN SAVE YOU A GREAT DEAL ON SHIPPING! This is fine with us, but realize that you still need to let us know within one week of receipt if you want to return anything, so don't use this method unless you are certain you will want to keep your purchases.

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING (the actual cost of shipping plus $2 outside the U.S.)!