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Auction History Result 2f0419 LITTLE WOMEN pressbook 1933 Katharine Hepburn, incredibly elaborate, full-color posters, rare! Date Sold 6/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 10" x 14" [25 x 36 cm]; 54 pages). Also included are 11 ad supplements, 2 that have four pages each, and 9 that have one page each [ranging in size from 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" to 16 1/2" x 21 1/2"], and also 2 heralds that have 8 pages and 2 pages. (Learn More) Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, the classic 1933 George Cukor (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) coming-of-age melodrama ("Dear to the heart of every woman of every age... America's favorite love story..."; "In a glowing drama of yesterday... fresh with the sweetness of eternal spring"; "Forgotten corners of the human heart thrill to the radiance of Jo and Beth and Meg and Amy.... in Little Women"; "A new sensation of sheer loveliness glorifies the screen!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; from the equally classic novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott) starring Katharine Hepburn ("In today's best-loved romance"; as Jo), Joan Bennett (as Amy), Paul Lukas (as Professor Bhaer), Frances Dee (as Meg), Jean Parker (as Beth), Edna May Oliver (as Aunt March), Douglass Montgomery, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington (as Marmee), and John Lodge (billed as "John Davis Lodge"). There had been many adaptations of this classic novel, but almost everybody considers this to be the definitive version, and Katharine Hepburn to the be definitive Jo March! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a most unusual and elaborate pressbook, one which we have only auctioned once before, and that was 6 years ago for $414. It has many sections that are housed in a full-color tri-folded die-cut folder. The folder has an image of Hepburn full-length on the cover and most of the posters in full-color on the other two sections of the cover. Inside, there is a wonderful die-cut section that has all the main stars with their names and character names, with naturally Hepburn much bigger than the others. There are three elaborate ad supplements inside and two heralds tipped-in! See our many images for just how great this pressbook is. There is a real oddity, which is that the three parts of the cover have "flaps" at the top designed to fold over to the inside. But by being folded over, they cut into the top of Hepburn's head on the cover and the top of the 24-sheet on the back cover! Apparently, they didn't put a little extra thought into this and make the image of Hepburn on the cover smaller so that her whole image would fit in! Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this pressbook, and that was 6 years ago, when it sold for $414!Note that in December 2021, we were consigned a truly remarkable collection of pressbooks (the first 37 were auctioned in our December Major Auction, and the most expensive one sold for $17,500!). In our regular auctions since, we have auctioned hundreds more from this collection. Now we continue to auction more of these pressbooks, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, most of the ones we are auctioning are larger pressbooks, mostly 11" x 15" or larger. Some of them were folded at one time, but they were stored unfolded for many years, so we left them unfolded, and unless the new owner requests otherwise, we will send them unfolded, because re-folding them would likely lessen the condition. Many of these are ones we have either never auctioned before or only once auctioned before, sometimes many years ago. These were collected decades ago, which was the only time that many of these could be found, and after these auctions are over it may be years (or decades!) before some of these are offered again. They ARE that rare! Note that pressbooks from the 1930s are almost never found in great condition, and some of them (especially those printed during World War II, including all the MGM ones from that time) are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have several images from each pressbook. We have given each an overall grade, and ask that you look at our images to get a good sense of the condition of that pressbook, because, since they have many pages, it would take forever to describe their condition in detail. However, EVERY one of these pressbooks is complete and uncut! Note: We have 18 images of the pressbooks in this set, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 18 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 8. Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. Note that we solely give an overall grade to these rare pressbooks, and tell you whether it is complete and uncut. However, you can view our multiple images of the covers and the interior pages that should give you a good sense of the pressbook's condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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