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Lot 142

[CHARLIE CHAN]. Group of 22 Pressbooks, Programs, or Ads fo...

Estimate: $200 - $300

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[CHARLIE CHAN]. Group of 22 Pressbooks, Programs, or Ads for Various Films, Mainly Charlie Chan Films. [V.p., ca. 1940s-1980s]. Various color or tinted items. Sizes range from 13 ? x 11? to 6 x 8?. Some general rubbing, occasional wear, soiling, creasing. Generally very good or better. Included are: British programs for Charlie Chan on Broadway, Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo; newspaper or trade magazine ads (excised from magazines or newspapers) for Charlie Chan?s Chance (a lost Chan film), City of Darkness; an ad for The Faker starring Warner Oland (not a Chan film), five later photocopied ads for various Charlie Chan films, a later photocopied pressbook for Dracula and Frankenstein, two catalogues for Castle Films distributors (1947), ads for excised pages from pressbooks for other monster films (including several re-releases), including: Doctor X, You?ll Find Out, The Corpse Vanishes, Calling Dr. Death, Flight to Nowhere etc., Zombies of Mora Tau, The Atomic Monster, The Monster Walks (possible later ad).