We have a small but incredible selection of 14 RKO yearbooks, plus 13 MGM's Lion's Roars ending *TUESDAY* <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html>night ( *they are the first items in our Tuesday set of auctions, * *999 window cards, French & Italian posters, pressbooks, studio campaign books, and more; see them all at this link<http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/1/13.html>: http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/sort/1/13.html*), March 19th beginning at 7 PM CST).
You surely already know this, but these books and magazines have some of the absolute best advertising art there ever was (because the studios used these to get theater owners to book their movies, and that was how they made their money, so they hired incredible artists and spent huge amounts of money producing these, which they gave away to theater owners for free). And RKO in the 1930s and MGM in the 1940s were two of the most lavish spenders on these, so theirs are among the "best of the best"! Note that even though campaign books were sent to many theater owners, it appears that very few examples of each have survived. I have been a collector of campaign books and related material for many years, and I know for certain just how rare they are! Note that studios almost always spent far more money preparing campaign books than they did preparing movie posters (often hiring very talented and well-known illustration artists), because campaign books directly benefited the studio in getting theaters to book the movies, whereas posters more benefited the theaters, rather than the studios (although of course, what was good for the theaters was ultimately good for the studios as well). Also note that, as was often the case with these campaign books, some of the movies advertised were either never made, had their titles changed before they were released, or were made with different casts than those announced in the campaign book (I do not have time to research the titles in these campaign books, but we likely included some images of movies that changed or were never made)! Finally, note that campaign books in general usually sell for at least $100, and often several hundred, and the very best of them have sold for thousands of dollars! *IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO FIND INCREDIBLY SCARCE ITEMS WITH REMARKABLE ART, THEN LOOK NO FURTHER! PLEASE BE SURE TO OPEN THE AUCTIONS, BECAUSE WE HAVE INCLUDED MULTIPLE IMAGES FOR EACH *(and we wish we could have shown every page of every one, because they are filled with wonderful images, most of which you have likely never seen before). The below are links to all of these, and we put a small image of the first of each type, but the rest that don't have images have camera icons at the end that link to images): [image: 7k001 RADIO PICTURES 1929-30 campaign book '29 sensational full-color ads with lurid artwork!]<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905685> 7k001 RADIO PICTURES 1929-30 campaign book '29 sensational full-color ads with lurid artwork!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905685> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k001> 7k002 RADIO PICTURES 1930-31 campaign book '30 the most incredible yearbook art ever!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905686> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k002> 7k003 RKO PATHE PERSONALITY GROUP campaign book '31 fantastic art of best female stars & more!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905687> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k003> 7k004 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1931-32 campaign book '31 incredible colorful signed art on every page!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905688> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k004> 7k005 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1932-33 campaign book '32 incredible King Kong 2-page ad & much more!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905689> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k005> 7k006 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1933-34 campaign book '33 4-page Son of Kong & Flying Down to Rio pop-up!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905690> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k006> 7k007 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1934-35 campaign book '34 great fold-outs & Radio City Rockettes pop-up!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905691> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k007> 7k008 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1936-37 campaign book '36 Walt Disney chooses RKO over United Artists!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905692> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k008> 7k009 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1937-38 campaign book '37 lots of Astaire & Rogers, wonderful art!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905693> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k009> 7k010 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1939-40 campaign book '39 Hunchback, Donald Duck, Laurel & Hardy + more!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905694> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k010> 7k011 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1940-41 campaign book '40 Citizen Kane when it was John Citizen U.S.A.!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905695> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k011> 7k012 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1941-42 campaign book '41 Citizen Kane, Fantasia, Dumbo, AND Bambi!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905696> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k012> 7k013 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1942-43 campaign book '42 amazing art with Bambi + 4 of best Val Lewtons!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905697> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k013> 7k014 RKO RADIO PICTURES 1943-44 campaign book '43 great art including Hirschfeld, 2 Val Lewtons!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905698> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k014> [image: 7k015 LION'S ROAR no III exhibitor magazine 1941 Sotero art of Garbo, King Tarz exhibition!]<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905699> 7k015 LION'S ROAR no III exhibitor magazine 1941 Sotero art of Garbo, King Tarz exhibition!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905699> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k015> 7k016 LION'S ROAR no. VII exhibitor magazine March 1942 Mickey Rooney & Donna Reed by Kapralik!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905700> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k016> 7k017 LION'S ROAR no VIII exhibitor magazine April 1942 Abbott & Costello by Kapralik & Hirschfeld!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905701> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k017> 7k018 LION'S ROAR no IX exhibitor magazine May 1942 Kapralik, Tortilla Flat art, GWTW continues!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905702> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k018> 7k019 LION'S ROAR vol III no 1 exhibitor magazine Sept 1943 Judy Garland in Girl Crazy, Hirschfeld!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905703> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k019> 7k020 LION'S ROAR vol III no 2 exhibitor magazine Jan 1944 Kapralik & Hirschfeld art, Madame Curie!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905704> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k020> 7k021 LION'S ROAR vol III no 3 exhibitor magazine April 1944 lots of Hirschfeld, Lucy by Vertes!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905705> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k021> 7k022 LION'S ROAR vol III no 4 exhibitor magazine Jul 1944 Marlene Dietrich by Adler, cool fold-outs<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905706> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k022> 7k023 LION'S ROAR vol IV no 2 exhibitor magazine Mar 1945 National Velvet long article & portraits!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905707> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k023> 7k024 LION'S ROAR vol IV no 3 exhibitor magazine June 1945 3 great color fold-outs, 2 by Kapralik!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905708> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k024> 7k025 LION'S ROAR vol IV no 4 exhibitor magazine August 1945 Kapralik fold-out from Anchors Aweigh!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905709> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k025> 7k026 LION'S ROAR vol V no 1 exhibitor magazine January 1946 Hirschfeld art, posters on trucks!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905710> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k026> 7k027 LION'S ROAR vol V no 4 exhibitor magazine August 1946 lots of Hirschfeld & Kapralik art!<http://auctions.emovieposter.com/Bidding.taf?_function=detail&Auction_uid1=2905711> <http://www.emovieposter.com/gallery/inc/large_size.php?lot=7k027> Don't forget to check out our* 27 studio year books or exhibitor magazines *at auction (they end *TUESDAY* <http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html>night, March 19th beginning at 7 PM CST), or view *ALL *of the *999 window cards, French & Italian posters, pressbooks, studio campaign books, and more *in this set of auctions now by going to * http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html* -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 29 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. 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