Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition comic books 1938-1940

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Picture Show Annual for 1938. Cover of Greta Garbo. Articles include "New Versions of Old Favorites," "They've Been a Long Time Married," "Famous Detectives of Fiction," "Color on the Screen," "Art and Artists in British Studios," "These Names Mean Mirth," "The Throne of England," "Film finds of the Year," "Westerns Old and New," "Fair Heroines and Dark Heroes" and much more. Movie portraits include Myrna Loy, Randolph Scott, Robert Taylor, Olivia De Havilland, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Ida Lupino, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier, and many more. Also includes one-page movie promos and short movie star features, including Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Barbara Stanwyck. Profusely illustrated with photographs with excellent layout and design. Weighs over two pounds. No dustjacket as issued but includes the glassine wrapper with the cover price of six shillings. Hardcover, 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

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Picture Show Annual for 1939. Cover of Gary Cooper and Sigrid Garie in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Articles include "Ten Years of Talkies," "Close Ups and Long Shots," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Children of the Screen," "Exceptions that Prove the Rule," "Stars of all Nations," "Stars of the Future," "Screenland Romances," "Say It With Song," "Sisters on the Screen," "Old Friends," "From Slapstick to Subtlety," "Men Behind the Makeup," "Days of Leisure" and much more. Movie portraits include Carole Lombard, William Powell, Deanna Durbin, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, Ginger Rogers, Basil Rathbone, Spencer Tracy, Greta Garbo, Bette Davis and many more. Also includes one-page movie promos and short movie star features, including Clark Gable. Profusely illustrated with photographs with excellent layout and design. Weighs over two pounds. No dustjacket as issued but includes the glassine wrapper with the cover price of six shillings. Hardcover, 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.

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Picture Show Annual for 1940. Cover of Madeline Carroll and Fred MacMurray. Articles include "Favourite Stars of Yesterday and Today" covering the silent era to 1939, "Characters You Can't Forget," "Favourite Films Screen Again" delving into remakes of earlier classics, "You Always Found 'Em Fighting" about James Cagney, John Wayne, Buster Crabbe and many more, "Series and Sequels," "Personalities in British Pictures," "Is There an Awkward Age," "They Sang Their Way to Fame" and much more. Full-page movie star portraits include Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Charles Boyer, Laurence Olivier, Rosalind Russell, William Boyd, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Alice Faye, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Errol Flynn, Vivian Leigh and many more. Profusely illustrated with tinted photographs. Excellent layout and design. Hardcover, 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 160 pages, B&W.