1918: “Revelation” movie tie-in book “The Rose-Bush of a Thousand Years” featuring photographs of Alla Nazimova

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Looks like movie tie-in books aren’t such a recent invention. When Alla Nazimova came out with her movie “Revelation” in 1918, the publisher of the book on which it was based – “The Rose-Bush of a Thousand Years” – re-released a new version with 8 photographs from the movie. You can see the book online: http://bit.ly/14lmACZ

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  1. Deviates Inc. November 21, 2013 @ 4:46 pm

    And here’s one for “The Red Lantern”: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076050883;view=thumb;seq=1

  2. Jon Ponder December 11, 2013 @ 3:27 pm

    Wow! Great find!

  3. Deviates Inc. November 21, 2013 @ 4:49 pm

    And one for “War Brides”: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3728065;view=thumb;seq=5

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