THE SWAN pressbook, Grace Kelly, Alec Guiness, Louie Jordan, Agnes Moorehead

Description

Pressbooks were sent only to theater owners to promote and advertise the movie and are extremely rare especially without cuts.This collection has been of the utmost importance to me and has been stored in a temperature controlled room for many years in a non-smoking home with 2 Hepa air filters and in the summer a strong dehumidifier.
Please note that these images were all scanned, so you have a perfect example of what you are getting. Please understand that pressbooks were made to be cut up by theater managers for promotion and to place advertisements in the newspapers, so uncut pressbooks may be hard to find on many titles, and many have been sold off now over the years since Ebay and other auction sites have been in business since the late 1990's. A pressbook with minimal cuts (most of ours are uncut) still has value as these are becoming very rare as they have been sold over the years since Ebay began.
Also note that many of these are very old, so over time the paper may have slightly darkened, this is normal, you won't find many pressbooks from the 30's through the 50's with bright white paper. If a pressbook has darkened more than average,we will ALWAYS describe that in our listing. Finally, we do not believe in short descriptions and leaving it up to chance. We try to list EVERY issue if there are any, instead of just saying "normal wear" or "slight use" or other general terms. We want you to know, since these are collectibles, exactly the condition of the pressbook (which is why we chose to purchase an industrial scanner to be able to scan the largest pressbooks). There is nothing more accurate than a scan.
Finally, you may wonder why many of our scans (pictures of the product) state in pink letters "SCAN FOR EBAY" over some of the images. I have discovered that there are people copying these images and enlarging them and making prints to sell on auction web sites. So please note that this is a message over the image to prevent this copying of our images and it is not in the actual pressbook.
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UNCUT
MGM
Pressbook for the film
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THE SWAN
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starring Grace Kelly, Alec Guiness, Louie Jordan, Agnes Moorehead, Jessie Royce Landis, Brian Aherne, Estelle Winwood
Pressbook has NEVER BEEN FOLDED. On the back cover the upper left hand corner had a fold (just the very tip) but it is not torn there.  There is a stain right in the center (when the book is opened) at the very top (most scans show 2 pages, look right where the pages connect in the center).  ost of it is in the white border area and it has not hurt or smeared most of the graphics. This pressbook contains some beautiful advertisements and 24 huge pages.
INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER HERALD (see last photo) AND a very rare AD SUPPLEMENT with advertising not in the pressbook. These 2 additions make a pressbook much more valuable as the herald and supplements usually get lost or sold separately over the years.
PLEASE NOTE THAT MOST OF THE PHOTOS FOR THIS AUCTION SHOW 2 PAGES IN EACH PHOTO as set out on an extra large format scanner! There is no better or accurate way to see what you are buying than with a direct scan!
Printed on a beautiful glossy paper. This is an authentic (not copied) piece of Hollywood movie memorabilia.
NUMBER OF PAGES: 24 (plus 4 page herald and 1 page ad supplement)
SIZE:  12" x 18"
YEAR: 1959 ORIGINAL RELEASE
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PLEASE NOTE THAT IT MAY TAKE UP TO ONE WEEK FOR YOUR ORDER TO SHIP. This is due to my disability. Also note most of the time we ship much sooner but there have been times when I need a few extra days.
I am sorry about this but I am disabled and these are the only days I can get help.
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ABOUT SHIPPING:
ALL PRESSBOOKS ARE MAILED WITH A COLLECTABLE PLASTIC COVER AND IN A LARGE STURDY CARDBOARD AND ALL ARE MAILED UNFOLDED!!! . Due to a disability, I can only ship on Tuesdays when I have help, so know that your item will ship the Tuesday following purchase. We do not make money on postage. Included in our postage cost is the special extra large cardboard we ship with, supplies like tape, and protective bags for EACH pressbook in your order.
ABOUT MY FEEDBACK:
Since Ebay does not allow sellers to respond to negative feedback, I will do so here.   You will note I have a few negatives.  The feedback that I have received that is negative (3 out of over a thousand), one person never contacted me that they were sent a pressbook with a cut in it (by mistake). I certainly would have corrected the problem immediately if they had just told me. I replaced it immediately only they chose to post negative feedback first. The other 2 are from someone who misunderstood that I send my pressbooks out on Tuesdays and they went at that time Media Mail, which is always an additional 4-8 days.  I completely refunded her total postage (after the negative feedback) even though the items were sent as stated.
If you have a problem, PLEASE contact me and I will do everything I can to correct an error.
This is my personal pledge to all of my customers.
ABOUT ME:
I have been a movie fan all of my life, my grandfather worked for both Universal and RKO, and my mother was an editor at Paramount. At age 8 I was taken to the offices and saw piles of pressbooks stacked up.  I loved the pressbooks as they had many pages of information of these movies and such great old movie advertising and could be read many times over. I have collected since I was 8. When I obtained a pressbook, it would immediately go into a plastic bag and was taped shut so no air reached these.  My father owned a furniture store which I worked in for 10 years and the first thing and most important thing he taught me was customer relations, to treasure each and every customer, so I am an old-fashioned seller who cares about each sale. I am ALWAYS available to talk to about anything you might be interested in from my store, and if anything does not please you, I guarantee I will do my best to make you happy.
I WILL ONLY SHIP TO PAYPAL CONFIRMED ADDRESSES!
WE HAVE THE WORLD'S LARGEST SELECTION OF MOVIE PRESSBOOKS FOR SALE. WE SPECIALIZE IN ONLY MOVIE PRESSBOOKS AND HAVE HAD OVER 40 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH THEM.