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A Collector's Guide to Theatrical Postcards
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Grange Books Ltd
ISBN: 1856274969
EAN: 9781856274968
Hardcover: 120 pages
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Customer Reviews
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Pleasant yet Modest Collection of Vintage Images
Rating  (3)
Date: 2005-11-28
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Postcard collecting is generally an inexpensive hobby and you can often get very old ones quite cheaply. This is a beautiful full-color (excepting of course, the black and white cards) reproducing around 200 celebrity postcards of the 19th and early 20th century (the latter is mostly limited to the movie stars), most of them issued in England. The book is divided into chapters on ballet, music hall, circus, cinema, theatre advertising, drama, Shakespeare, and Musical Comedy. The book opens with a two page history of collecting postcards and the goes into the chapters, which have on one page paragraph biographies of the celebrity pictured and on the facing page, the postcards produced usually four to a page in a size slightly small than an actual postcard. Among the variety stars pictured are Njinsky, Anna Pavlova, Cicely Courtneidge, Eugene Stratton, Julian Eltinge, Houdini, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Taylor, Gloria Swanson, Ramon Novarro, John Barrymore, Mabel Normand, Dolores Del Rio, Enrico Caruso, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Ellen Terry, Ivor Novello, Sarah Bernhardt, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Maude Adams, Laurence Oliver, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Anna Held, Billie Burke, Sydney Granville, as well as many others still famous or forgotten for century. The British book has both a dust jacket and an embossed cover. This is basically a light picture book, certainly not a definative reference guide on the subject, and a few hours browsing on ebay or the net might pull many of these images as well as scores more, yet it is a pleasant enough pictorial on a hobby that may not be very exciting but has been around for well over a hundred years.
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Amazon.com's Price:$4.50
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