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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

This week, I have the pressbook covers from "Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book", the 1942 Zoltan Korda boy-raised-by-wolves jungle fantasy action adventure thriller ("I'll show you the mysteries... The wonders of the jungle's savage heart!"; "Jeweled secret city.. guarded by the jungle's fiercest denizens!"; "It's out of this world! More thrills... More excitement than the killer tiger has stripes! The thousand and one secrets of the jungles of India revealed at last in wonderful Technicolor!"; "Unveiled before your wondering eyes... The romance of mystic India... The savage jungle's secret charms... In this new kind of motion picture!"; "Mowgli, half-boy, half-wolf... armed only with a knife and the love of a girl, meets the challenge of Shere-Khan, the Killer Tiger!"; based on the classic story by Rudyard Kipling; produced by Alexander Korda) starring Sabu Dastagir (billed simply as "Sabu", as he was in all his movies; most famous as the star of the 1940 version of "The Thief of Bagdad"; as Mowgli), Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary De Camp, Patricia O'Rourke, and Ralph Byrd (best remembered for playing the title role in the "Dick Tracy" movie serials)

Here is an image of the front cover and the back "poster page" (see larger images by clicking on these thumbnails).

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 25,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!).