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Auction History Result 2y008 PARAMOUNT PICTURES 15TH BIRTHDAY GROUP campaign leather slipcover/folder '27 cool! Date Sold 10/1/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Campaign Leather Slipcover (measures 13" x 17 1/4") (Learn More) Paramount Pictures 15th Birthday Group, the 1927 campaign book commemorating the fifteen year anniversary of Paramount Pictures and featuring information about upcoming movies for the year. This was not a standard campaign book. It has a special leather-like cover that contained loose pages that were held together by a string that ran through holes in the cover. The only one of this we were consigned has 45 interior loose pages (printed both sides, so 90 pages in all), but they are loose, so we don't know if that is all that were originally contained in this book. It is surely incredibly rare (we once auctioned just the covers, with no interior pages, but otherwise, we have only auctioned it the one time). Some of the stars and movies include: The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim), Kid Boots (Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow), So's Your Old Man (W.C. Fields), Hazards of the Jungle, Sorrows of Satan (D.W. Griffith), The Show Off (Louise Brooks), Casey at the Bat, Variety (E.A. Dupont), Mantrap (Clara Bow), Metropolis (Fritz Lang), Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, and many more! This is surely one of the nicest assortments of trade ads we have ever seen, and it is exceptionally rare! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that each year, studios would prepare campaign books, and they would often make several versions of each, giving the most deluxe ones to their very best theaters and customers. Often, there would be a softcover version and a hardcover version, and sometimes there would be an even more elaborate version. In the case of this 1927 Paramount book, there was a version made that had a deluxe leather hardcover slipcover. This auction is SOLELY for that leather slipcover, and NOT for the individual campaign pages.
UPDATED 10/01/2013: Note that a knowledgeable collector pointed out that this is not a leather hardcover binding that was removed from a campaign book as we initially listed. Actually, it is a leather slipcover/folder that was designed to hold individual campaign pages and was only sent to major theaters in large cities. Condition: fair to good. Only the leather slipcover is present . There are many scuffs and stains scattered on the front and back of the binding, and there is staining at the bottom of the inside flaps (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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