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Auction History Result 1t1827 BODY SNATCHER pressbook 1945 Boris Karloff robbing body from graveyard, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/15/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher, the 1945 Robert Wise grave robber horror thriller ("The screen's last word in shock sensation!"; "Not Hollywood Bunk - but dramatized from unthinkable facts of record!"; "No punches pulled... No details hidden... No facts sugar-coated in this startling and horrific expose of the methods used by surgeons years ago to get bodies for dissection!"; "Shriek and Shudder"; "Graves Raided"; "Coffins Robbed"; "Corpses Carved"; "Midnight Murder"; "Body Blackmail"; "Stalking Ghouls!"; "Mad thrills of Terror and Macabre Mystery... - and don't blame us if you stay awake all night!"; "Foul fiends stealing the dead by night so that medical students have bodies to dissect! ...Even fouler fiends committing murder to get the young and beautiful for practice operations!"; produced by Val Lewton; based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was itself based on the infamous English grave robbers, Burke and Hare) starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade, Sharyn Moffett, and Rita Corday. Note that this is the last movie the two horror legends, Karloff and Lugosi, appeared together! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we were recently 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 January 15th auctions, we auctioned another 59 from this collection. In our February 15th auctions, we auctioned another 159. 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, we are solely auctioning 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! Note that we have never before auctioned this first release pressbook! Also 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: fair to 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. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. The covers are separated at the spine. Learn More about condition grades 
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