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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

So below is the pressbook from Counsellor-at-Law, the classic 1933 William Wyler New York City courtroom Jewish lawyer legal melodrama (from the Broadway play by Elmer Rice that starred Paul Muni; about a very hectic day in the life of a poor Jewish man who becomes a lawyer and gets a top Park Avenue law practice) starring John Barrymore (as George Simon), Bebe Daniels (as Rexy, Barrymore's secretary who is in love with him from afar), Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas, Mayo Methot, Thelma Todd, and Vincent Sherman (as the anarchist who doesn't want Barrymore to defend him).

Here is an image of the pressbook's cover and an interior page:

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).