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COLUMBIA PICTURES presents “FOR THE SEASON 1929-1930 THE PROSPERITY GROUP OF ALL-TALKING PICTURES” Studio exhibitor yearbook

[Los Angeles]: Columbia Pictures, [1929]. Vintage original studio exhibitor yearbook, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4″ (31 x 23 cm.), pictorial stiff wrappers, 52 pp. There is fading to what would have been a red color on the front cover, fine in very good wrappers.

In 1929, Columbia was a smaller studio in competition with behemoths like MGM and Paramount. Frank Capra was emerging as a major name for them, and his upcoming film FLIGHT gets a two-page trade ad. This book is filled with very richly colored one- and two-page trade ads, with almost fluorescent colors. With a one page letter from the studio, explaining their policy of guaranteeing exhibitors a profit of all films rented.

This is an extremely scarce book. I have never previously handled one, and it is not listed in OCLC (although a 1930-1931 book is).

JAMES BOND / FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) UK campaign book

Vintage original 9 ¾ x 14 ½” (24 x 36 cm.) exhibitors’ campaign book, 14 pages, pictorial wrappers, UK. Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, dir: Terence Young; United Artists. James Bond is on the search to retrieve a Soviet encryption device which SPECTRE is also after. On his journey through Istanbul to retrieve the device, he is thrown into an assassination plot involving a Russian damsel in distress. The film played in England before being released in the states in May 1964. This was the second of the filmed Bond stories, making more than 20 million in profit. Ian Fleming was one of President John F. Kennedy’s favorite writers and it is said that this is the last film JFK saw before his assassination, viewing it at a private screening at the White House. This book features the original UK promotion, including posters, ads and merchandising items such as books, records and even Double O Lipsticks. There is even a story about the casting of the rats for one sequence. Minor creases to front and back covers, more so at corners. ABOUT FINE.

Andy Warhol’s LONESOME COWBOYS (1968) Exhibitor’s press manual

Printed wrappers, 11 x 8″ (28 x 21.6 cm.), USA. This rather langorous film, with Viva, Taylor Mead, Joe Dalleasandro, Lou Waldon, Eric Emerson, and various other Warhol Factory members, had clear homoerotic gay overtones, and was a transition to the series of films directed entirely by Paul Morrisey, which were to follow within a couple of years.

Very scarce pressbook for Warhol’s Western spoof, which was a very important early movie for Dallesandro, who would shortly become a Warhol superstar. 8 pp., with a few stamps of a film distributor, overall ABOUT FINE.

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Walter Reuben Catalog 43|2019

Written by Bolen High on . Posted in Featured.

Walter Film’s second catalog (#43/201) contains 84 pages and encompasses ten categories that include Collection, LGBTQ, Warhol, African Americana, Film Directors, Literature into Film, Women, Theater and Exhibitor Books.