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Auction History Result 9y0491 FORBIDDEN PATHS pressbook 1917 Vivian Martin & Sessue Hayakawa, mixed race romance, rare! Date Sold 10/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 8" x 11" [20 x 28 cm]; 9 pages) (Learn More) Forbidden Paths, the 1917 Robert Thornby silent mixed-race romantic love triangle melodrama ("From the story by Eve Unsell"; an incredible story of a young woman whose father dies and she is left in the care of her father's employee, a Japanese American, and that man loves her, but she can't love him, and then she falls in love with another man who is forced into a marriage by his family, and both the lovers are miserable because they can't be together, but then the Japanese American man takes the wife of the other man on a boating trip, and goes out in the ocean and sinks the boat so they both die, and the lovers can be free to marry) starring Vivian Martin, Sessue Hayakawa, Tom Forman, Carmen Phillips, and James Neill NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned any movie paper from this movie until we received this pressbook (but realize that this is one of the very earliest pressbooks known to exist, and it does not contain ANY poster images)! Also note that this is one of a pretty remarkable group of 12 incredibly rare pressbooks that date from 1917 to 1920! This is from the time period when pressbooks were first made, and it is even before the time that inserts or half-sheets were made! Pressbooks from this time period are among the rarest movie paper collectibles there are. These were all consigned to us from a man who collected for many decades, and it is a far greater number of pressbooks from this period than we have ever auctioned in all our years of auctioning! Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. There are many stains around the edges of the front cover, and the back cover has slightly darkened. Learn More about condition grades 
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