Leonard Maltin’s Collection of Movie Memorabilia on eBay

The great critic and film historian Leonard Maltin has moved to a new home and so he is putting some of his fabulous collection of movie treasures up for auction on eBay.

Maltin writes:

Long ago I got hooked on pressbooks, those oversized, slick-paper campaign booklets that include movie ads and promotional gimmicks. I’m starting to weed out my collection, so if you’re interested in John Wayne titles like The Flying Leathernecks or The Sea Chase, an ad supplement for Bogart and Bacall in The Big Sleep (with a few ads cut out), Robert Youngson’s The Golden Age of Comedy and The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy, or a reissue of Laurel and Hardy’s Great Guns, take a look. I even have a 1949 reissue pressbook for King Kong which RKO paired with Val Lewton’s I Walked With a Zombie. There are plenty more to come.

We have an overabundance of Disney collectibles, from a charming 1940 Syroco figure of Pinocchio to a handful of limited-edition pieces from an old Disneyana convention. (My favorite is a figurine of Donald Duck striking the gong from the opening sequence of The Mickey Mouse Club.) There’s also a lovely ceramic lamp of Bambi from the 1940s manufactured by Goebel.

If there’s a movie fan on your gift list this year, you may find just the treasure you’re looking for here.