THINGS TO COME H G Wells RAYMOND MASSEY Original 1936 BRITISH PRESSBOOK

Description: Rarely offered original, studio-issued, 10” x 14” British 55 page pressbook for the 1936 Alexander Korda (“The Thief of Bagdad”) produced, H.G. Wells sf classic, “Things to Come”, directed by William Cameron Menzies (the Bela Lugosi “Chandu the Magician”), starring Raymond Massey (the Universal horror / Boris Karloff “The Old Dark House”), Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Margaretta Scott and Sophie Stewart. The pressbook is missing the non-illustrated back cover (“blank” except for United Artists and “Printed in England” credit), otherwise the pressbook is uncut, in fair/good condition with all pages loose from the binding, an approximately 2” x 4” chip from the lower left corner of the front cover with corresponding creasing at the top edge of that chip on all the interior pages (scotch tape repair replacing the chips to pages where that corner had torn on the creasing). The lower left corner chip is missing from the last 8 pages and 2 of the 4 newsprint pages. The heavy paper front cover also has an about ¾” strip/chip across the bottom edge repositioned and taped in place by scotch tape on the reverse (blank) side. ADDITIONAL DETAILS: The pressbook is ‘sectionalized’ with the page headers on the first 10 page as “Theatre Decoration”, “Street Stunts”, “Theatre Exploitation” and “Exploit These Unusual Costumes”; the next 14 (pale blue) pages as “Shop Window Tie-ups, etc.” with the page headers “Bookshop Tie-Ups”, “Music Store Tie-ups”, “Coming Styles are Becoming Styles”, “Fashions of the Future”, “Tailoring Tie-up”, “Stills for Window Blocks for Composite Pages” and “Your Newspaper Composite Page”; the next 18 pages are “Editorial and “Advertising Blocks”; the last 8 (light yellowish-tan pages) are “Accessories and Posters” with the headers “Outstanding Heralds”, “Attractive Slide”, “Use this Book-Mark” / “Colourful Lobby Boards”, “Displays”, “Posters” and “Ad-Lines”. All 8 of those pages have the left corner chip missing (the missing corner chip on the Poster page does not affect the view of the 48 sheet or the 6 sheet and also the missing corner does not enter the “Ad-Lines” text). Finally, there are the 4 single-sided newsprint pages with the cast listing, story synopsis and production information (which have top and bottom border chipping/edge wear as well as the bottom left chip on the first and second pages repaired with scotch tape on the reverse and the bottom left corner chip missing on the third and fourth pages). These newsprint pages were actually mounted as lift up pages on the inside of the (missing) back cover. The exterior side of the heavier paper unillustrated back cover was solid gray/green, block printed with the “United Artists Corporation Ltd., Head Office: Film House, Wardour Street, London, W. 1. – Printed in England” credit at the bottom. Please see our other auctions for additional pressbooks and sci-fi, fantasy and horror movie memorabilia and happy to combine postage on multiple wins. ABOUT US: We've had our store, Hollywood Movie Posters (located in Hollywood, California) for over 40 years. Many of you may be familiar with us because of our 1992 book, "Graven Images: The Best of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Film Art from the Collection of Ronald V. Borst". If you are in the Los Angeles area, you're welcome to visit our store plus by special arrangement, you can pick up auction wins personally at our store which is open 3 days a week (Friday, Saturday and Monday) from 1:30pm to 5:00pm.. Otherwise, we ship worldwide and are happy to combine multiple wins. Thanks for looking and good luck bidding! --Ronald V. Borst & Margaret Borst TERMS: Please remit payment no later than 5 days from date of Invoice (unless other arrangements were made prior to end of auction) and if you’ve won multiple items please wait for us to send a combined Invoice. Tax will be calculated and added automatically by eBay based on State tax rates. Send your payment via methods approved by eBay through their managed payments program. USA: We strive to ship the following business day after receipt of cleared payment using the U.S. Postal Service which includes Delivery Confirmation. International: NO International shipping at this time. Upon receipt of your win, if you are not 100% happy (for any reason) please contact us BEFORE leaving negative or neutral feedback so we can work to resolve any problem.

Price: 174.99 USD

Location: Los Angeles, California

End Time: 2024-12-31T01:56:19.000Z

Shipping Cost: 9.95 USD