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Auction History Result 7d001 KING KONG pressbook '33 incredibly elaborate, lots of color, includes the die-cut herald! Date Sold 3/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 32" [30 x 81 cm]; 20 pages). Also included is the die-cut herald that has 7 pages (measures 4" x 7 1/4") (Learn More) King Kong, the classic 1933 Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack Africa New York City giant ape fantasy romantic love triangle adventure horror thriller ("'The most awesome thriller of all time' the one and only"; "Not beast.. Not human.... Not devil.. But all three magnified! Raging.. Roaring.. Crushing.. Killing.."; "Strangest story ever conceived by man!"; "Out-leaping the maddest imaginings! Out-thrilling the wildest thrills!"; "See the living, fighting monsters of Creation's dawn rediscovered in the world today!"; "See the death-fight between giant ape and prehistoric dinosaur... the most amazing combat since the world began!"; "See the ape as big as a battleship wrecking New York!"; "Unique..! Thrilling! Startling!"; "From an idea conceived by Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper"; based on the story by Edgar Wallace, with incredible special effects by Willis O'Brien) starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong (as Carl Denham), Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, and Sam Hardy NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that RKO KNEW that they had a real "winner" with this movie, and they made an incredibly elaborate pressbook that was over-sized and had lots of full-color pages, which picture many of the posters in full-color, which is quite unusual for a pressbook. The cover has a 12" x 32" full-color image (with a full bleed) of the 24-sheet, and the back cover shows a large full-color image of the better style three-sheet! Each original pressbook was sent to theaters with a die-cut herald "tipped in", but those are often missing (but the pressbook offered here still has its herald attached). This is surely the "King" of all pressbooks! Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, as well as several of the interior pages, but we really wish we could have pictured EVERY one of the 20 pages, because they are all incredible! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut! The covers are completely separated at the spine (likely because someone displayed one of them on a wall). There is some separation and some tiny bits of paper loss on the folds of the covers. There is a 2" tear on the front cover (2" to the right of the "G" of "KING"), and a few small tears around the edges of the covers. The interior pages of the pressbook are in pretty nice condition, but with some minor wear. The die-cut herald is still "tipped in" to the interior page (it is rare to find it intact in the pressbook). Learn More about condition grades 
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