ARE YOU LOOKING TO BUY MOVIE POSTERS OR RELATED ITEMS? We are the world's leading auctioneer of movie posters and related items. You are currently on one of our non-auction pages. We hold 4,000 to 5,000 auctions every FOUR WEEKS. To learn more about our auctions, click here. To register to bid on our auctions, click here.

About eMoviePoster.com:

In the past 32 years, we have auctioned MORE movie paper for MORE money than ANY other auction company, period!

EVERY item we auction starts at $1, with NO reserve, and NO buyers premium, and EVERY item is honestly described, with an unenhanced super-sized image!

We charge consignors the lowest rates of ANY major auction, and we have held over 1,834,000 online auctions!

Go to our current auctions in our Auction Galleries, and you will quickly see why we are the most trusted auction site!

eMoviePoster.com was founded in 1999 as the first all-movie poster auction website. We have auctioned well over 1.8 MILLION posters (movie and NON-movie), lobby cards, stills and related items through our auctions since 1999, surely the most of any online auction!

eMoviePoster.com

eMoviePoster.com - The most trusted vintage original movie poster site & the only major online auction with no buyers premiums!

What are the objects in the corners of some images? Learn More







Login or Register to see large images.
Auction History Result

8z023 COLUMBIA PICTURES 1930-31 campaign book 1930 Frank Capra's Dirigible, Barbara Stanwyck, rare!

Date Sold 9/12/2019
Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price.


An Original Vintage Campaign Book (measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]; 44 pages) (Learn More)

Columbia Pictures 1930-31, the 1930 Columbia Pictures campaign book ("Columbia Pictures Announces The Superior Twenty Proved Product"), sent to theater owners to encourage them to show Columbia movies. The book includes 44 pages with two-page spreads on Columbia's upcoming movies (there is a full-page ad for the movie on the right side and more information about the movie and/or the director on the left side; see our images). Note that this was at the time when Columbia was making the transition from secondary studio to a first rate studio, and of course, Frank Capra was a big part of that transition! But they did not realize how big a role he would play at Columbia when this book was created, and there is a 2-page ad for his "Dirigible", with an image and blurb about him on the facing page. There is also a great ad for "The Miracle Woman", but at the time that ad was created, Capra had not yet been assigned to that movie, and the facing page promotes Stanwyck (as the "greatest find of the year"). Some of the other movies included are The Criminal Code, Africa Speaks, Fifty Fathoms Deep, and many more! Just one year later, when they made the 1931-32 campaign book, Frank Capra would be the main focus of the entire book! We have included images of the covers of the book and thirteen 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 we have never before auctioned this campaign book!

Condition: very good to fine. There are a few tiny stains at the spine edge of the cover and minor other wear on the covers, but otherwise, the book is in wonderful condition!
Learn More about condition grades

Complete Buyer Protection - No time limit on our guarantees & NO buyer beware
Hershenson Help Hotline - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent problems
Also, please read the following two pages of Consignor Reviews - Page 1, Page 2, and two pages of Customer Reviews of our company - Page 1, Page 2, which shows you in our customers' own words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very different from all others!


LAMP Approved - Founding Sponsor since 2001 - eMoviePoster
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. 
(For our UPS or FedEx address, click here)
phone: +1 417 256-9616     fax: +1 417 257-6948
E-mail: Contact Us
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT)