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Auction History Result 6a001 MARK OF THE VAMPIRE linen 14x20 pressbook back cover 1935 six posters in full color, Lugosi! Date Sold 4/29/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original LInenbacked Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook Back Cover (measures 14" x 19 1/2") (Learn More) The Mark of the Vampire, the 1935 Tod Browning horror thriller ("You will not dare believe... what your eyes see!"; "These two strange symbols meant 'marked for death'!"; "Important! Do not divulge the secret of 'Mark of the Vampire' to your friends... let them by mystified... and thrilled!"; based on the story 'The Hypnotist' by Tod Browning; about a father and daughter vampire team in an unnamed European country, and naturally, wherever they go, people are found dead) starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugos (as Count Mora)i, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt, Carroll Borland (as Luna, a female vampire; Borland was a huge Lugosi fan who wrote a script intended for him and appeared in this movie with him, which was only one of six movies she appeared in!), Holmes Herbert, and James Bradbury Jr. Note that director Tod Browning had incredible success with Dracula in 1931, but Freaks in 1933 was a major failure (at the time), and he was trying to regain his former glory with this movie, which was very loosely based on another major success, London After Midnight, which starred Lon Chaney Sr.! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: NOTE THAT THIS AUCTION IS SOLELY FOR THE BACK COVER OF THE PRESSBOOK (I don't know if a complete example of this pressbook still exists, but we have never auctioned it, although we once auctioned a window card for $14,722!). However, it of course shows six of the original posters in full color, and if those posters existed, they would literally sell for a staggering amount of money, and it is almost a certainty that even a single example of few, if any, of the posters exist at all. And of course, this can be displayed and enjoyed on anyone's wall, and it IS from the first 1935 release of this Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi vampire movie! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The back cover of the pressbook had tape stains and paper loss in the corners. It was folded across the middle, with creases along that fold, and some creases, stains, and tiny paper loss around the edges. Overall, the pressbook cover was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the pressbook back cover "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. REMEMBER THAT ONLY THE BACK COVER IS PRESENT AND THAT IT IS LINENBACKED. Learn More about condition grades 
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