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Auction History Result 7a0111 DRACULA pressbook 1931 vampire Bela Lugosi, Tod Browning, 1st 1930s Universal, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/4/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 1/2" x 19 1/2" [34 x 50 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Dracula, the classic 1931 Tod Browning Universal vampire monster horror thriller ("The Greatest of all Horror Thrillers"; "The Vampire Thriller!"; "The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!"; "Do vampires really exist?"; "From the famous novel & play by Bram Stoker") starring Bela Lugosi (in the title role as Count Dracula), David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye (if there had been a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 1931, Frye would have surely won it for his wild over-the-top portrayal as Renfield!), Edward Van Sloan (as Professor Abraham Van Helsing), Frances Dade, and Herbert Bunston NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this first release pressbook, and that was 26 years ago, when it sold for $3,910! 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 to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. There is wear on the fold across the cover and smudges and stains scattered on the cover, more so on the top half, which would have been the part that was on the outside when it was folded. The back cover with the posters has some creases, smudges, and small stains around the edges, and the interior pages have a much lesser amount. Someone performed slight touch up to the fold across the middle, so that the tiny surface paper loss on that fold would not be as noticeable, but otherwise did no restoration. See our images to get a good sense of the condition of this rare pressbook. Learn More about condition grades 
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