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PARAMOUNT 1928-29 (US) PARAMOUNT 1928-29 (US) Campaign book OR search current auctions Auction History Result 4k119 PARAMOUNT 1928-29 hardcover campaign book 1928 Canary Murder Case, some of the best art, rare! Date Sold 3/7/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Campaign Book (measures 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" [24 x 32 cm]; 46 pages) (Learn More) Paramount 1928-29, the 1929 Paramount campaign book ("The Whole Show Program for 1928-29"), sent to theater owners to encourage them to show Paramount movies. The book includes 46 pages with one-page and half-page spreads on Paramount's upcoming movies and stars. Some of the movies and stars advertised include Wings (with sound!), The Wedding March (with Erich von Stroheim), four different movies with Clara Bow, Dirigible (directed by William Wellman), The Canary Murder Case (with William Powell), The First Kiss (with Gary Cooper), and many more! There is a eight-page section that advertises Paramount short subjects, with a great illustrated ad for Krazy Kat and Max Fleischer's Inkwell Imps cartoons, and a cool tiny "Stars of Tomorrow" section (which includes an image of Louise Brooks!), plus much more! Note that, because Paramount at this time was one of the very leading studios, and had many of the biggest name stars and directors, and also had lots of money to spend, they made lots of great movies this year, and they also were proposing many unbelievable movies that never got made (see some of the examples above; perhaps it was because the stars became too famous too quickly to make so many movies, or maybe it was because of the Great Depression, but this book has lots of never-made movies that one could only dream of!). Sometimes Paramount did not use as much full-color artwork as the lesser studios, because they had so many great stars, but in the case of THIS campaign book, they commissioned some of the very finest full-color art I have ever seen in any campaign book! We have included images of the cover of the book and six of the interior pages (and we did not make a big effort to find the best ones, and we really wish we could have pictured them all!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: This is a hardcover book, with a "tipped in" plate glued to the center of the front cover. This book was created as a "standalone" hardcover and it was also published as an insert into an issue of Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (the entire book, minus the hard covers). Note that we have only previously auctioned this hardcover version of this campaign book, and that was 12 years ago, when it sold for $510! Condition: good to very good. The book is in really wonderful condition, except for a VERY odd defect. There is a faint stain on the bottom of the cover, in the solid colored area. There is light staining across the bottom of every interior page, but it solely affects the bottom blank border, and in now way causes the pages to be stuck to each other. We are somewhat mystified how this staining could have occurred, because it is a dark color, which would normally cause the pages to stick together, at least somewhat, but that did not happen here, so perhaps it is some kind of strange printing defect. But as we said, it does not affect any of the images of text, solely the blank bottom of each page (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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