A selection of over 200 vintage and classic film posters from the golden age of Hollywood movies, printed in full color, these superb examples of movie advertising art are reproduced from original one-sheets, inserts and lobby cards in three of the world's finest collections.
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By John Reid
Oct 15, 2009
"Classic Movie Posters" For such a limited niche market, there are a surprisingly large number of books currently available that reproduce the wonderfully colorful one-sheet posters and lobby cards that used to adorn our movie theaters. What I don't like about most of these books, however, is that, despite excellent printing, the posters are often crowded five or six to a page. In my opinion, this over-crowding lessens the impact of the individual posters. In my book, I have spread 204 posters over 166 pages. No more than two posters are printed on a page. Most posters, in fact, occupy a page all to themselves. The posters have been drawn from three of the world's finest private collections. Many of them are one-of-a-kind originals that have never appeared in other books or printed catalogs. I've also provided a description of each poster, mostly just a few words or a few lines, but in one case I have written a whole page warning fellow collectors against buying a particular... More > type of poster, because of my serious reservations as to its actual monetary value (if any).< Less
