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Auction History Result #A282 FAUST & THE DEVIL pressbook '50 Tajo, Corradi Date Sold 3/9/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (measures 11" x 14"; 4 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 4 pages (Learn More) La Leggenda di Faust (released in the U.S. in 1950 as "Faust and the Devil"), the 1949 Carmine Gallone Italian satanic romantic musical melodrama ("He sold his soul for the love of a maiden!"; "A fine and stirring motion picture"; "Inspired by Goethe's Drama and Goundod's Opera, 'Faust'") starring Italo Tajo (as Mephistopheles), Nelly Corradi, Gino Mattera (in the title role as Faust), Onelia Fineschi and Livia Venturini NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald which is pictured next to the pressbook below. Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. Condition: good. This pressbook is in lesser condition. It has significant defects, such as tears, stains, smudges, and small areas of paper loss around the edges. However, important to note that it is complete and UNCUT, which is unusual, since the purpose of pressbooks was for theaters to cut out one or more of the ads and use them in their local newspapers. It has also never been folded, which is also unusual, as almost all larger pressbooks were folded in half so that they could be more easily transported. But please do not bid on this pressbook unless you can accept the clear defects that it has (if you look at the images we provide, you should get a good sense of what defects this pressbook has). Learn More about condition grades 
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