eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result p006 WARNER BROS SEASON OF 1925/26 movie campaign book Date Sold 8/30/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Campaign Book, sometimes referred to as Studio Yearbook (measures 10 3/4" x 13 3/4"; 50 pages) (Learn More) 40 Warner Bros. Classics of the Screen Season of 1925-1926 campaign book, sent to theater owners to encourage them to show Warner Bros. movies. The book includes 50 pages with one and two-page spreads on Warner Bros.' upcoming movies, but with greater emphasis on the stars that worked for Warner Bros. at the time. Note that this book was produced in Warner's earliest days, and (no doubt in a money-saving move) the book is entirely in black & white, and there are no pictorial ads for upcoming movies, although there are artwork images of several of the stars signed by artist George Willard Bonte. Some of the stars profiled include John Barrymore ("America's Greatest Actor"), Syd Chaplin, Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, a special tribute page to Rin-Tin-Tin, with a great artwork image of "The Wonder Dog", and director Ernst Lubitsch, and many more! We have included images of the cover of the book and four of the two-page spreads (and we did not make a big effort to find the best ones!). Note that even though this campaign book was sent to many theater owners, it appears that very few examples have survived. I have been a collector of campaign books and related material for many years, and I know for certain that this campaign book is extremely rare! Note that some of the movies listed in this book may never have been made at all, and some had their titles changed, and some had their cast or director changed! Note that studios almost always spent far more money preparing campaign books than they did preparing movie posters (often hiring very talented and well-known illustration artists), because campaign books directly benefited the studio in getting theaters to book the movies, whereas posters more benefited the theaters, rather than the studios (although of course, what was good for the theaters was ultimately good for the studios as well). Finally, note that campaign books in general are extremely rare, and the best of them have often sold for hundreds of dollars, and in the case of the very finest, thousands of dollars! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of an excellent collection of nine extremely scarce studio campaign books we are selling this week on eBay (in nine separate auctions). Even though these are books that have sold for hundreds of dollars in the past, all begin with 99 cents with no reserve on any of them! Condition: very good. The book is in pretty good condition, with many smudges and scuffs in the background areas of the front and back covers. All of the interior pages have a faint crease in the top right corner, but are otherwise in excellent condition. There are no cut outs or pages missing (campaign books are often found with missing pages, because theater owners would tear out pages to remind them to book the movie, and sometimes collectors took pages out of these books). Learn More about condition grades
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