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Auction History Result 2t0289 BATTLEGROUND pressbook 1949 directed by William Wellman, WWII soldier Van Johnson, rare! Date Sold 8/30/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 17" x 24 1/2" [43 x 62 cm]; 18 pages). Also included is a herald that has 4 pages. (Learn More) Battleground, the 1949 William A. Wellman (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Battle of the Bulge World War II (WWII) military action thriller ("The guts, gags and glory of a lot of wonderful guys!"; "The story of 50 guys and a girl"; "Story and Screen Play by Robert Pirosh"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland, Don Taylor, Bruce Cowling, James Whitmore (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; in his second movie role!), Douglas Fowley, Leon Ames, Guy Anderson, Thomas E. Breen, Denise Darcel, Richard Jaeckel, James Arness, Scotty Beckett, and Brett King NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned two examples of this pressbook, and those were both 10 years ago! Note that in December 2021, we were consigned a truly remarkable collection of pressbooks (the first 37 were auctioned in our December Major Auction, and the most expensive one sold for $17,500!). In our regular auctions since, we have auctioned hundreds more from this collection. Now we continue to auction more of these pressbooks, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, most of the ones we are auctioning are larger pressbooks, mostly 11" x 15" or larger. Some of them were folded at one time, but they were stored unfolded for many years, so we left them unfolded, and unless the new owner requests otherwise, we will send them unfolded, because re-folding them would likely lessen the condition. Many of these are ones we have either never auctioned before or only once auctioned before, sometimes many years ago. These were collected decades ago, which was the only time that many of these could be found, and after these auctions are over it may be years (or decades!) before some of these are offered again. They ARE that rare! Note that pressbooks from the 1930s are almost never found in great condition, and some of them (especially those printed during World War II, including all the MGM ones from that time) are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have several images from each pressbook. We have given each an overall grade, and ask that you look at our images to get a good sense of the condition of that pressbook, because, since they have many pages, it would take forever to describe their condition in detail. However, EVERY one of these pressbooks is complete and uncut! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. Note that we solely give an overall grade to these rare pressbooks, and tell you whether it is complete and uncut. However, you can view our multiple images of the covers and the interior pages that should give you a good sense of the pressbook's condition. Note that because the covers of the pressbook do not lay completely flat in our image, there is some glare down the right of the spine, but that is solely in our image and NOT in the pressbook itself! Learn More about condition grades 
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