ATTENTION! The Notes and Shipping Details shown below apply SOLELY to the 532 pressbooks, 202 Mexican lobby cards (both singles and sets), and 35 'oversized' bulk lots we are auctioning from 12/20 to 12/27, and may well NOT apply to our other weekly auctions. If you are looking for details for other weekly auctions, please check our Special Notes Archive.

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A Special Note About Our Current 769 Items:
     Many of the items we are currently auctioning are "oversized", meaning that they can't be sent in our regular standard-sized flat mailers (and NONE of them can be rolled in a tube). THERE ARE A FEW EXCEPTIONS; SEE THE SHIPPING SECTION BELOW. Basically, this auction contains items that measure larger than 11" x 14", but smaller than 14" x 22" (when folded as far as they can be folded).  We sell items that measure OVER 14" x 22", and must be sent in flat packages in their own auction, and we sell the items that measure 11" x 14" or under and must be sent in flat packages in a special separate auction of their own.  Because the items offered in our current auctions need to be shipped in oversized flat packages, you will have to pay $1 more U.S. shipping (and possibly a lot more if you live outside the U.S.).  In many cases, we will actually lose money on shipping because many packages from this auction will cost more (some, much more) than the $10 U.S. shipping charge, but we are absorbing this loss as a "thank you" to our customers!

A Special Note About the 35 Bulk Lots:
     This week, we are offering 35 bulk lots, as we do in almost all of our Sunday auctions.  But because this week's Sunday items are pressbooks and Mexican lobby cards (both of which need to be sent in oversized flat packages), WE ARE ONLY OFFERING BULK LOTS THAT CAN BE PACKED IN SIMILAR OVERSIZED FLAT PACKAGES!  This means that, this week only, you CAN combine any of these 35 bulk lots with any of the pressbooks or Mexican lobby cards you might buy in our regular auctions that close the same day (and you CAN also combine any of these 35 bulk lots with any of the windows, French, and Italian posters that close on December 31st!
     BUT DO KNOW THAT ALTHOUGH YOU CAN COMBINE THE BULK LOTS WITH ANY OF THE REGULAR ITEMS FROM THE 27TH OR 31ST, YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING OF THE COMBINED PACKAGE (we always charge the actual cost of shipping to all buyers on bulk lots, because some are quite "bulky", and we would lose our shirts if we charged a flat rate U.S. shipping).

A Special Note About Pressbooks:
     We are selling an excellent collection of 532 pressbooks this week! While a lot of the pressbooks that exist have ads cut out of them (this is only logical, since they were created with the intention that the theater owners would cut them up and create their own newspaper ads from them), 88% of the 532 pressbooks we are selling this week are COMPLETE AND UNCUT (only 64 of them have either missing pages or ads cut out, and we clearly note which those are).  Many collectors have been discovering pressbooks, which have the appeal of both movie posters and magazine type items, and collectors quickly learn that many of them are quite scarce, and especially difficult to find completely uncut.  The collection offered this week provides a rare opportunity to locate a wide variety of pressbooks, covering all years and genres, and most of them are complete and uncut! 
    NOTE THAT WE MAKE IT IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS WHETHER A PRESSBOOK HAS "CUTS" OR IS "UNCUT"! We put "NO CUTS" after the overall condition grade of the uncut pressbooks, and we put "but WITH CUTS" after the condition grade of the cut pressbooks.  Some pressbooks are in pretty nice condition except for an ad being cut out. But to try to be consistent, we graded those as being in "good to very good" condition, and we graded the rest of the cut pressbooks (the ones with additional defects) as being in "good" or "fair" condition. But if you are the type of collector who can live with cuts in pressbooks, know that the cut pressbooks that are graded "good to very good" are actually mostly in pretty nice condition other than the cuts.

About the Condition
     Note that we give a detailed overall condition grade to every item we sell ("fine", "very good to fine", "very good", "good to very good", "good", and "fair", with only a few graded "poor") along with more details about the condition described in words (but pretty much only if they are defects that CAN'T be seen in our super-sized images, or if the item is especially valuable).  We felt this would help bidders identify items they want to bid on more easily.  Of course, we still strongly recommend that you look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the poster for minor defects that we did NOT describe.

Payment Options
We accept all major credit cards, either directly over the phone at 417-256-9616 during our regular business hours which are Monday to Friday, 9 AM CST to 5 PM CST except between 12 and 1 when we take lunch, or you can e-mail us payment details, and there are still a few people who fax us!

If you like to pay via Paypal (our PayPal e-mail is "mail@emovieposter.com"), that is fine, but know that PayPal has many glitches, and you should ABSOLUTELY e-mail us separately when you send us a PayPal payment!

You can send a check or money order (if you do, enclose your address and details about what you purchased) to:
Bruce Hershenson
Attn: Payments
P.O. Box 874
West Plains, MO 65775

If it is your best payment option, you can pay by Western Union (unlike SOME auction sites, we are not prejudiced against Western Union!). But please don't send cash (as we can't be responsible for lost cash)!

As a special offer to our customers, U.S. buyers need to enclose $12 shipping no matter how many items you win!

Why $12 shipping this week?
This week only (because we are selling "oversized" posters which do not fit in our standard mailers, and will need to be sent in large oversized mailers, or between six heavy pieces of large cardboard), all U.S. buyers must pay a total of $12 (twelve) shipping, whether you buy 1 item or 100 (or any number in-between). Note that we FULLY INSURE EVERY U.S. order we send! We will spend the shipping collected on virtually all orders, and we spend far more on those that involve lots of items and high dollar items.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT COMBINING AHD SHIPPING THE BULK LOTS WE ARE AUCTIONING THIS WEEK!
Note that we have our standard $12. U.S. shipping on all of the "regular" Sunday items, but the bulk lots are heavier so the shipping will be somewhat higher or MUCH higher (because several of them are heavy and bulky). You can combine as many of the regular items as you want and pay a single shipping charge, and normally we would NOT allow you to combine the bulk lots with your regular purchases, but THIS WEEK ONLY, you CAN combine the bulk lots with your regular purchases (so long as they all fit in a single package) but realize you will have to pay the actual cost of shipping the combined package, which may be higher than our standard $12 U.S. shipping.

A few of the items this week are not oversized!
Note that some of the pressbooks we are selling this week are not "oversized", because they were once folded in half and have not lost that fold, which means that they CAN fit in our standard mailers (WE HAVE CLEARLY NOTED WHICH ONES THESE ARE IN THE INDIVIDUAL AUCTION DESCRIPTIONS). But it only makes sense to re-fold these items if they are purchased by themselves (or solely with other items that can be re-folded), because if they are purchased with items that can't be folded, there will be no point in folding them.

WE ARE NOT TRYING TO MAKE MONEY ON SHIPPING!
In fact, when we sold these sizes of posters on eBay in the past, we charged $15 for U.S. shipping, but we are making this special "$12 U.S. shipping" offer this week, as a special discount to our buyers in our auctions on our site, even though this means we will lose money on shipping most U.S. packages!

Will your order be shipped to you by UPS?
UPS does NOT automatically require a signature to deliver packages, so if you want the signature to be required, you will need to pay the extra $2.50 UPS charges for "signature required" Delivery Confirmation, and please realize that they will then NOT leave the package, and you may well have to go to the UPS facility yourself to pick it up. But if you prefer this, that is fine, and if you have any other special requirements, please tell us when you are paying for your order. IF YOU DO NOT SPECIFY THAT YOU WANT SIGNATURE REQUIRED, THEN YOUR PACKAGE WILL BE SENT WITHOUT SIGNATURE REQUIRED!

You CAN usually combine shipment!

Note that we not only allow you to combine as many items as you want from a single set of Tuesday, Thursday, and/or Sunday auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge for all of the items, but we also allow you to wait until the next five sets of auctions end (a total of six sets of auctions) so that you can combine your current purchases with those of our following auctions (if possible), and that means there is a chance you could combine items from up to six of our sets of auctions, and still pay only a single shipping charge (assuming those items fit into the same type of package). We KNOW there are other sellers who charge a little less on shipping than we do, but we know that our packaging is the best there is, and our orders virtually never arrive damaged (and on the very rare times that they do, all our U.S. packages are fully insured, and FULL INSURANCE IS INCLUDED IN THE U.S. SHIPPING CHARGE).

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE $12 U.S. SHIPPING!

Non-U.S. buyers must pay the actual cost of shipping their order (you can choose whatever method you prefer, but know that the U.S. Post Office has eliminated Surface Mail, so we can only send via Express or Airmail), plus $2 for the best packaging materials you have ever seen.  All non-U.S. buyers must tell us if they want the package sent insured or uninsured at the time they pay for their order.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT COMBINING AHD SHIPPING THE BULK LOTS WE ARE AUCTIONING THIS WEEK!
Note that we have our standard $12. U.S. shipping on all of the "regular" Sunday items, but the bulk lots are heavier so the shipping will be somewhat higher or MUCH higher (because several of them are heavy and bulky). You can combine as many of the regular items as you want and pay a single shipping charge, and normally we would NOT allow you to combine the bulk lots with your regular purchases, but THIS WEEK ONLY, you CAN combine the bulk lots with your regular purchases (so long as they all fit in a single package) but realize you will have to pay the actual cost of shipping the combined package, which may be higher than our standard $12 U.S. shipping.

Have you heard about our Pay and Hold Program?
This lets non-U.S. buyers pay for their purchases from 4 consecutive weeks (a total of 12 auctions and around 8,000+ items!), and we then send all your purchases at once saving you LOTS of money!  Click HERE to learn more (if you are not one of the hundreds of our non-U.S. buyers who are already part of this program)

     IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please bear this shipping cost in mind BEFORE your place a bid (if you live outside the U.S.). The vast majority of our customers want a very securely packed tube, and will pay the extra shipping cost involved (and of course, it goes to the Post Office or UPS, and not us!). Please do not ask us to pack less securely, as that would likely result in a damaged order.
    Some sellers are sending by Ground UPS to Canada, but that incurs large "brokerage fees", so we do not recommend it.  Note that there are also some sellers sending non-U.S. packages via a "Letter" rate, but of course this is not legal, and we can not do this.  We have outlined the possibilities for sending non-U.S. packages above, so please read that carefully, BEFORE placing a bid!

Do you have a friend or relative who lives in the United States? Some of our customers either visit the U.S. regularly, or have friends or relatives within the U.S., and often those customers have us send their orders to a U.S. address, and then they transport the posters from there. THIS CAN SAVE YOU A GREAT DEAL ON SHIPPING! This is fine with us, but realize that you still need to let us know within one week of receipt if you want to return anything, so don't use this method unless you are certain you will want to keep your purchases.

DON'T BID ON OUR ITEMS UNLESS YOU WILL PAY THE ACTUAL COST OF SHIPPING (the actual cost of shipping plus $2 outside the U.S.)!