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Auction History Result 6p0067 DIRECTORY OF ARTISTS hardcover book 1926 Mildred Harris, John Gilbert, Lionel Barrymore! Date Sold 11/24/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" [16 x 23 cm]; 159 pages) (Learn More) Directory Of Artists, the 1926 illustrated casting directory book ("Under exclusive management of the Edward Small Co."; "Service Plus Integrity") featuring images and information about available actors and writers who were managed by this one company, the Edward Small Company, who clearly represented a significant segment of Hollywood! Some of those given full-page images include Mildred Harris, Nita Naldi, Baby Peggy, Lionel Barrymore, and John Gilbert. Casting directories were published from the 1930s on, and they would have listings of people looking for jobs in Hollywood, and they made their money by selling "featured ads" to people who wanted greater recognition! Very few of them have survived, surely because people who received them considered them like old newspapers, to be discarded after they were outdated. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a wonderful collection of early "casting directories" we were consigned! We looked through each of these and selected the best ones (ones with listings for people who later became very famous), and those are listed individually in this set of auctions. The remaining ones, where we did not see famous people listed, will be listed in groups in our next bulk lot auction. After that, we will have no more of these extremely rare books! Also note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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