Vintage RKO "Tom Brown’s School Days" Lobby Card
by Hughes, Thomas
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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About This Item
RKO Pictures, , 1940; 11" x 14" lobby card for RKO Pictures’ 1940 film adaptation of Thomas Hughes’ enormously popular 1857 novel "Tom Brown’s School Days," chronicling life at Rugby, the English boys’ boarding school. Widely credited with having established the genre, the book reportedly reached near fifty editions by 1890. Shown here is actor Jimmy Lydon as Tom Brown, receiving encouragement from schoolmate Ned East (Freddy Bartholomew) between rounds of Tom’s fight with school bully Flashman (Billy Halop). Stamped "Independent Poster Exchange,1323 Vine Street, Philadelphia" on the verso. Formerly, licenses were granted by film studios to exchange services of this type to handle poster distribution for their releases, and the exchanges made a profit from rental of the posters to exhibitors, a policy which in later years led to numerous anti-trust lawsuits and the cessation of the practice. Very Good Plus, image bright and sharp. Minor small surface soil at a few places in the blank margin. An original poster of a landmark film, not a reproduction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6525
- Title
- Vintage RKO "Tom Brown’s School Days" Lobby Card
- Author
- Hughes, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- RKO Pictures
- Place of Publication
- ,
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Tom Brown’s School Days, Thomas Hughes, Freddy Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Cedric Hardwicke, Posters, Lobby Cards, Movies, Cinema, Film, Rugby School
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theater and Film;
Terms of Sale
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AARDWOLF Fine Books
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Van Nuys, California
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.