REFERENCE BOOKS - MOVIE POSTERS

Want to learn more about the exciting world of collectible movie posters? Here are some of the best reference sources available. Click on the photo or description for information on how you can acquire these materials.

BOOKS ORDERED DIRECT FROM LAMP

Learn About Movie Posters
by Ed and Susan Poole

This book is designed for beginners, intermediate and advanced collectors and is the most comprehensive published work on movie poster collecting ever compiled. It contains over 400 full size pages of information and tons of photos and illustrations on every aspect of collecting.
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This 800-page, one-of-its-kind publication has 60,000 posters listed for sale by our reputable LAMP Dealers, including prices and conditions. This publication features 30 of the most reputable dealers from around the world offering posters with price ranges from under $5 to over $50,000 AVAILABLE HERE!
This book is for press still dealers and collectors. We have never emphasized stills on LAMP but there have been a large number of stills dealers and collectors at the conventions and shows. Besides the 20,000 production codes from 13 major US studios listed in the book, this book also has articles on how the film process works and the importance and usage of stills.
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LAMP's Collecting International Movie Posters presents a closer look at the film industry in major countries INCLUDING the U.S., from the viewpoint of the poster collectors. It will look at the history of cinema in each country, firsts in their movie industry, markings on their posters, etc. AVAILABLE HERE!


For those that love research or those that wonder about the legalities or even those who just want to know how everything worked... This is for YOU!

This LAMP Booklet is crammed with information that you can't find anywhere else
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BOOKS ORDERED FROM OTHER SOURCES

Collecting Movie Posters: An Illustrated Reference Guide to Movie Art-Posters, Press Kits, and Lobby Cards by Ed and Susan Poole
released in 1997

"clearly written.... Helpful illustrations cover all key points and help to define terms"
Big Reel....

"the most thorough and easy to understand text on this subject" The Silents Majority On-Line Journal...

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The first complete history of British film posters ever published, covers every aspect of design, printing, and display, and includes detailed biographies of all the major artists. The book explores illustrated film posters from their emergence in the late Victorian period as an offshoot of the variety/theatrical posters of the period, to the rapid decline of the illustrated, or handpainted, tradition in the mid-1980s, and to the subsequent arrival of computer desktop publishing.

Miller's Movie Collectibles
by Rudy Franchi, Barbara Franchi

Movie Collectibles is a comprehensive guide to the area of collecting movie memorabilia. Concentrating on posters, the book is divided into genres such as Film Noir, Disney & Other Animation, Movie Stars, James Bond, and Star Wars, and following the progression of cinema from the early days of silent film through to modern re-releases of old classics.