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Auction History Result 9k0044 BONNIE SCOTLAND pressbook 1935 Al Hirschfeld art of Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/5/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 3/4" x 19 3/4" [35 x 50 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is a herald that has 4 pages. (Learn More) Bonnie Scotland, the 1935 James W. Horne British-in-India military screwball crime comedy ("Full length Feature"; about Stan moving to Scotland to inherit the "MacLaurel Estate", but discovering it is worthless, and they are then tricked into enlisting in the British Army in India, where they have many adventures!) starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (Laurel and Hardy), James Finlayson, June Lang, and William Janney NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Al Hirschfeld Important Added Info: Note that we have only once before auctioned this first release pressbook, which has great Al Hirschfeld art on both covers, and the other one sold for $1,490! Note that MGM, being the foremost studio of the 1930s felt they did not need to create wonderful posters for their movies, because they had so many top stars, so often their 1930s posters have simple artwork against a white background with a duotone photo of the top stars! However, they knew that they needed theater owners to book their movies, so they spent quite a bit more money on their pressbooks, often making them close to window card size, with an exact color recreation of the window card image on the cover of the pressbook, and the posters on the back cover in full color, and often a full-color sample herald, "tipped in" to the inside of one of the covers! However, they economized on the interior on these large pressbooks and used newsprint for the interior pages, which in almost every case has aged greatly and is fragile, if not brittle (see below for the exact condition of this pressbook). 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: good to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. However, the interiors of MGM pressbooks from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time, and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. The color covers were printed on a better paper, but they tend to chip around the edges. This particular pressbook was folded across the middle and the interior pages are fragile around the edges and across the middle where there was a fold, and they are fragile like most pressbooks from this time, and they must be handled very carefully. The covers are in pretty nice condition, with 1" of separation at the right end of the front cover and 1 1/2" of separation at the left side of the back cover, and someone put a piece of clear tape on the inside back cover over that tear. The tipped-in herald is in really nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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