REFERENCE BOOKS - MOVIE POSTERS

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100 Years of the Cinema
Bruce Hershenson

A fabulous series of pictorial movie encyclopedias spanning the early days of the movie industry to the present High-quality, all-color reproduction and accurate text make these books excellent for reference, while movie lovers will delight in the opportunity to remember their favorite films.

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Academy Award Winners' Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters Series;
Vol. 3)

by Bruce Hershenson

This collection contains 394 full-color illustrations spread over 84 pages. It includes all the winners of the top six Academy Awards from every year from the very first in 1927/28 all the way through to 1994. It serves as a pictorial encyclopedia of who won which Oscar when, and what ad campaigns were used. This is the original first edition from 1996, and it will never be reprinted.

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Attack of the 'B' Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Moves Through Posters Series Vol. 14)
by Bruce Hershenson (Editor), Richard Allen (Editor)

This collection contains 280 full-color illustrations spread over 84 pages. This book focuses on the lesser films dealing with sex, monsters, and violence which so dominated the drive-ins of the 1950s and 1960s. The movies represented in this book include some of the worst films ever made, but all have great poster art and taglines! This is the original first edition from 2000, and it will never be reprinted.

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Best Pictures' Movie Posters
by Bruce Hershenson (Editor), Richard Allen (Editor)

This collection contains 417 full-color illustrations spread over 100 pages of every single nominee and winner of the Best Picture Academy Award, from the very first in 1927/28. all the way through to this year's nominees! It serves as an incredible reference as to exactly when the greatest films were made, which were nominated, and which won. This is the original first edition from 1998, and it will never be reprinted.

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Cartoon Movie Posters
by Bruce Hershenson

This collection contains 393 full-color illustrations spread over 100 pages of cartoon movie posters with special emphasis on Popeye, Betty Boop, Tex Avery, Tom and Jerry, and Disney features and short subjects. The book gives the year of release, the producer and director, and the star (if it's a series cartoon). It contains a huge percentage of all the cartoon movie posters known from before 1950, and contains ten full-page illustrations! This is the original first edition from 1995, and it will never be reprinted.

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Comedy Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters Series Vol. 12)
by Bruce Hershenson & Richard Allen

This collection contains 318 full-color illustrations of comedy movie posters spread over 84 pages . It covers every type of comedy from the broad slapstick of Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks and Jim Carrey, to musical comedies, to the great screwball comedies of the 1930s. You'll find images from early silents up to the present day. This is the original first edition from 2000. It will never be reprinted!

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More Cowboy Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters, Vol 6)
by Bruce Hershenson (Compiler), Richard Allan, Richard Allen (Editor)

This collection contains 335 full-color illustrations of Cowboy movie posters spread over 84 pages. There are ten full-page images, and there is a greater emphasis on the great stars of the 1940s, such as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Hoppy, although like the previous volume it spans all the years from early silents to the present day. This is the original first edition from 1998, and it will never be reprinted.

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Crime Movie Posters
by Bruce Hershenson, Richard Allen

This collection contains 376 full-color illustrations of crime movie posters spread over 84 pages. From silent films to the present day, from Sherlock Holmes to The Godfather, this book covers all your favorite crime films, and includes many posters for obscure films that have great graphics. It has a special emphasis on the great series films of the 1930s and 1940s. This is the original first edition from 1998, and it will never be reprinted.

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Drive-in Movie Posters: Volume Eighteen of the Illustrated History of Movies through Posters
by Richard Allen & Bruce Hershenson

169 of the absolute worst (and trashiest) films ever made! But we carefully choose the ones with the absolute best poster art and taglines, ones that promised far more than the films delivered!

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Hollywood and Early Cinema Posters
by Bruce Hershenson

This 116 page full-color catalog contains 263 lots, 41 of which were estimated to sell for $10,000 or more! It contains the greatest collection of horror material ever auctioned, a remarkable collection of Charlie Chaplin posters, and much, much more. You get all the prices everything sold for and there is very little duplication from Bruce's other auctions. This was published at $30 but the price has been reduced to just $20. This is the original first edition from 1997, and it will never be reprinted.

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Horror Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters, Vol 7)
by Richard Allen (Editor), Bruce Hershenson (Compiler)

This collection contains 306 full-color illustrations of great horror movie posters spread over 84 pages with 10 full-pagers. This is the original first edition from 1998, and it will never be reprinted.

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Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters, Volume 11)
by Bruce Hershenson (Editor), Richard Allen (Editor)

This collection contains 280 full-color illustrations of great horror, science fiction, and fantasy movie posters spread over 84 pages, and this volume continues all the way to the present, covering all the great (and some not-so-great!) films you saw in the theaters. Amazingly there are absolutely none of the same images that appeared in the earlier Horror Movie Posters. This is the original first edition from 1999, and it will never be reprinted!

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Musical Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters, Volume 9)
by Bruce Hershenson (Editor), Richard Allen (Editor)

This collection contains 329 full-color illustrations of great movie posters from musical films spread over 84 pages, all the way to the present.. Often, movie studios would create their most elaborate posters for musicals, and this volume is perhaps the most graphically interesting of this series. This is the original first edition from 1999, and it will never be reprinted!

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Not Nominated: Movie Poster (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters Series)
by Bruce Hershenson &Richard Allen

This collection contains 370 full-color illustrations spread over 80 pages withimages of five films from every year from 1927 through 2000 that were NOT nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award. It also includes lists of what was nominated, as well as hundreds of worthy honorable mentions, all indexed and cross-referenced, making this a reference guide to what year the best films were made, and whether or not they were nominated for (or won) the Best Picture Academy Award. This is the original first edition from 2001, and it will never be reprinted.

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Rock, Pop, and Classic Cinema Posters
by Bruce Hershenson

This is two complete auctions in one volume! First there are 174 full-color Rock 'n' Roll movie posters tracing their entire history, ranging from Bill Haley in Rock Around the Clock (1956) to Nirvana in The Year Punk Broke (1992) Then comes another auction of 276 full-color classic film posters led by an ultra-rare Flying Down to Rio one-sheet that was estimated at $9,000 - $12,000, but sold for a staggering $81,700. All told, this is a massive 168 page volume!

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Serial Movie Posters, Vol. 10
by Bruce Hershenson & Richard Allen

This collection contains 216 full-color illustrations of great movie posters from the great chapter serials spread over 84 pages. There is special emphasis on the great superhero serials of the 1930s and 1940s, and many posters have a full-page image! This is the original first edition from 1999, and it will never be reprinted!

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Sports Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters Series)
by Bruce Hershenson, Richard Allen

This book contains 380 full-color illustrations of sports movie posters in 80 pages. It covers 30 different sports It also includes real life sports heroes (i.e.Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig). It contains a huge percentage of all the sports movie posters known from before 1950! This is the original first edition from 1997, and it will never be reprinted.

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To Be Continued...: 1930'S & 1940's Serial Movie Posters (Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters, Volume 16)
by Bruce Hershenson

The auction includes the greatest collection of 1930s and 1940s serial one-sheets ever assembled
This is the original first edition from 2001, and it will never be reprinted.

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Vintage Hollywood Posters I
by Bruce Hershenson

This catalog is from the December 5th, 1998 auction held in Beverly Hills, California. The 84 full-color catalog contains a remarkable assortment of posters, many of which have never been auctioned, including an assortment of original Universal horror posters and lobby cards, and 99 great cowboy posters from the 1930s and 1940s.

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Vintage Hollywood Posters II
by Bruce Hershenson

This catalog is from the June 26th, 1999 auction held in Beverly Hills, California. The 84 full-color catalog contains a remarkable assortment of posters, many of which have never been auctioned. There is an incredible assortment of 1930s original cartoon posters (including almost every poster made for Snow White), as well as lots and lots of the finest posters known from the 1930s through the 1960s!

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Vintage Hollywood Posters III
by Bruce Hershenson

This catalog is from the June 24th, 2000 auction held in Beverly Hills, California. The 80 page full-color catalog contains an assortment of posters, many of which have never been auctioned. There is an incredible group of 149 of virtually every 1950s science fiction posters (including Forbidden Planet, Creature From the Black Lagoon and much more!), as well as lots and lots of the finest posters known from the 1930s through the 1960s!

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Vintage Hollywood Posters IV
by Bruce Hershenson

This catalog isfor the 6/30-7/1 eMoviePoster.com on eBay auction. The 80 page full-color catalog contains an assortment of posters, many of which have never been auctioned or pictured before! There is a collection of original Abbott & Costello one-sheets, three-sheets, title cards and best scene cards, a great group of over 25 1930s Buck Jones posters (including the very best), as well as lots and lots of the finest posters and lobby cards known from the 1910s through the 1960s!

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Vintage Hollywood Posters V
by Bruce Hershenson

This is the catalog for our December 2002 mega-auction! This auction was held on 12/14 on eBay. Your copy will include a sheet that gives all of the prices realized at the auction. This was Bruce Hershenson's 15th major movie poster auction, but this auction contains a large number of images never seen in any previous book or catalog!

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War Movie Posters: Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters
by Bruce Hershenson (Editor)

This collection contains 297 full-color illustrations spread over 84 pages. This volume is 50% devoted to the films made about World War II, and the other 50% is devoted to all other wars, from ancient wars to the Gulf War. Included are films that take place during battles, as well as other aspects of war such as prisoners of war, espionage, the home front, etc. All of the posters pictured on this page received a full page in the book. This is the original first edition from 2000, and it will never be reprinted.

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Who Goes There?:
1950'S Horror & Sci-Fi Movie Posters & Lobby Cards
by Bruce Hershenson (Editor)

The book contains over 450 images of 1950s and early 1960s horror and science fiction movie posters and lobby cards! This is a virtual encyclopedia to just about every horror and science fiction film made during this period, including all the best-known titles! 1950s and early 1960s horror and science fiction is the most popular genre of movie poster collecting, and the posters and lobby cards from those films are the most desirable and sought-after of any movie paper.

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James Bond Movie Posters: The Official 007 Collection
by Tony Nourmand

Campy, sexy and legendary in their own right, the James Bond movie posters in this whopper of a compilation feature every movie from 1962's Dr. No to 1999's The World Is Not Enough. All the usual suspects are here: the logo, the girls, the tag lines and the various incarnations of 007, including David Niven and George Lazenby.

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Film Posters of the 40's: The Essential Movies of the Decade
Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh

From the iconic Casablanca to Orson Welles's seminal Citizen Kane, from the optimistic It's a Wonderful Life to the exotic Thief of Baghdad, the films of the 1940s are now recognized as some of the greatest of all time. And while the forties was the decade hailed nostalgically ever since as Hollywood's golden age, it also saw the emergence of a dark new undercurrent in pop culture-the sinister world of gumshoes, gangsters, double-crossing dames, and blind alleys that became known as film noir.

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Film Posters of the 50's: The Essential Movies of the Decade
Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh

The best, the sexiest, the coolest film posters from the 1950s: from Some Like it Hot to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; from La Strada to Roman Holiday. With more than 250 full-color posters from all over the world and commentary by two leading experts on poster art, Film Posters of the 50s is a must have for all film buffs as well as anyone interested in graphic design and advertising.

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Film Posters of the 70's: The Essential Movies of the Decade
Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh

From Jaws and Saturday Night Fever to Star Wars and The Godfather--the look and ethos of the '70s as reflected in the posters from the decade's defining films Following the acclaimed Film Posters of the '60s, internationally renowned poster archivists Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh of the Reel Poster Gallery now present the best of the '70s film posters from their coveted collection of rare and graphically exciting originals.

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Film Posters of the 80's: The Essential Movies of the Decade
Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh

The 1980s was a decade in which filmmakers pulled put all the stops to dazzle audiences and make them jump out of their seats. And just as they marked the development of the special effects technology that sparked a wave of blockbuster films, the Eighties also saw the advent of the cutting edge computer techniques used by graphic artists in the promotional posters for these unforgettable films.

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Hitchcock Poster Art
Mark H. Wolff (Editor), Tony Nourmand

Alfred Hitchcock's style was unmistakable, and his films more than ever are revered the world over. Any list of the greatest films of all time is sure to include titles like Psycho, Dial M for Murder, Vertigo, and North by Northwest. In this lavishly produced book, Wolff and Nourmand have collected all the best promotional art—including posters, lobby cards, and other promotional materials—of Hitchcock's entire career.

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Elvis Presley: Silver Screen Icon: Featuring a Collection of Movie Posters
by Steve Templeton

The book is illustrated with magnificent, unique international posters. The collecting section gives the novice and experienced collector useful and valuable information.Finally, there is a special pricing section for the American movie posters which shows the increase in prices from 1983 to 2002 for the Elvis posters.

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Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Period of Film Noir
Eddie Muller

Film noir is all about style, even as much as it is about crime. The poster art from the noir era has a bold look and an iconography all its own. During the golden age of noir, studios commissioned these arresting illustrations for even the lowliest B-thriller. The Art of Noir is the first book to present this striking artwork in a lavishly produced, large-format, full-color volume.

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Science-Fiction and Horror Movie Posters in Full Color
Alan Adler (Editor)

Large, full-color posters for 46 films including 'King Kong,' 'Godzilla,' 'The Illustrated Man,' and more. A bug-eyed bonanza of scantily clad women, monsters, and assorted other creatures.

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Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters
by Jacques Boyreau

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.

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Disney Poster Book
Tony Anselmo,

Foreword by Leonard Maltin

 

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Great Movie Graphics
Rockort

Starring the latest, greatest designs from around the world. Includes posters, merchandise, video packaging, lobby standees and more.

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Retro Stud: Muscle Movie Posters from Around the World
by David Chapman

Posters that teem with muscle-rippling heroes in skimpy loincloths, frail beauties in diaphanous gowns, pointy-bearded tyrants, and evil queens with heavy makeup and beehive hairdos were all classic lures that used to tempt patrons into theaters to see the sword-and-sandal movies of forty years ago.

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Movie Posters of the Silent Film Era To Color
by Rex Schneider, Christopher Buchman

This book is a 'coloring book' in the Stemmer House 'International Design Library' series. The black and white renderings of original film posters, by Rex Schneider, are accurate and quite well executed. In some instances where posters no longer exist, they have been newly designed in the style of the period.

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Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy Movie Posters & Lobby Cards (Color Collector's Guide)
by Robert Brosch, Kren Sevitch

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Japanese Movie Posters: Yakuza, Monster, Pink and Horror
by Chuck Stephens (Introduction)

This is an eye-opening, full-color presentation of movie posters representational of the best and the worst of Japan's cinema. From lurid and graphic horror to yakuza movies to posters of Hayao Miyazaki's wondrous words of animation, Japanese Movie Posters offers an unforgettable slice of Japanese popular culture in the twentieth century.

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