Picture Show Annual HC (1926-1960 Amalgamated Press) UK Edition comic books
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Published 1930 by Amalgamated Press.$43.50
View scans- Heavy rubbing to extremities of binding with edges and corners showing. Front hinge 90% split, held by cloth netting. Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 50%.
Picture Show Annual for 1930. Articles include "Looking Back," "The Younger Generation," "The Birth and Death of a Movie," "Me and My Dog," "As Others See Them," "Talkie Pioneers," "Our Wonderful World," "Magic Mirror of the Movies," "Shopping in Hollywood," "When They Were Very Young," "A Week in My Life," "Tiny Tots and Clever Pets," "Hollywood Holidays" and much more. Full-page movie star portraits in full color include Ronald Colman and Lily Damita in The Rescue, Jack Gilbert and Renee Adoree in The Cossacks, Vilma Banky and Walter Byron in the Awakening. Movie portraits include Ramon Novarros, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Anna May Wong, Norma Talmadge, Joan Crawford, Billie Dove, Clara Bow. Also includes one-page movie promos and short movie star features, including John Gilbert, Gary Cooper and Myrna Loy. Profusely illustrated with photographs with excellent layout and design. Weighs over two pounds. No dustjacket as issued. Hardcover, 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, B&W.
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Published 1938 by Amalgamated Press.$80.00
View scans- Moderate rubbing to extremities of binding with corners showing. Multiple cracks to boards. Sunning to spine cloth.
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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Published 1939 by Amalgamated Press.$6.00
View scans- Water damage: Moderate.
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.
