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Star Wars Poster Book

At last, an all-inclusive visual compendium of the most illustrious imaginative promotional silver screen campaign worldwide for the most popular series of all time – Star Wars, and in poster form.

This item: The Star Wars Poster Book by Stephen J. Sansweet, head of fan relations at Lucasfilm, is a hardcover 288 page masterpiece from Chronicle Books. Within this book are 350 of the most amazing posters from the Star Wars series, including the very first which was only a text ad saying, "Coming to Your Galaxy This Summer: Star Wars."

This anthology chronicles the history of the genre perfectly in picture form. These are the posters which have been displayed on the bedroom and office walls of serious fans. Some of these posters capture the campy nature such as the infamous exploding head of Darth Vader while others show the more serious artistic form like that of Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader on the Death Star.

Stephen Sansweet and Peter Vilmur, as well as contributions from other collectors, give behind the scene details of the history of this series through poster form. If you are a collector, the commentaries these expert collectors give are invaluable.

If you collect posters on eBay or anywhere online or at swap meets, you will want a copy of this book that can give you accurate information about bootleg identification so you can tell the difference between a fake and the genuine article.

If you are trying to collect every known Star Wars poster, you'll be in for a treat. You would have a hard time searching the internet to find every poster that is revealed in this volume. This book is that comprehensive and is going to be used as the definitive book on Star Wars poster collecting. It's already being used by dealers as they will often cite this book when it comes to their posters.

As this book was put out in October of 2005, it is sure to be followed up with a sequel book to capture the same in-depth nature as this one, but to include the movies that have been out since like Revenge of the Sith. While it may not have the posters from some of the latest films, it is as authoritative as it gets.