The Star Wars Poster Book

Editorial Review:

One of the very first Star Wars posters had no images at all just enormous block letters that announced, "Coming to Your Galaxy This Summer: Star Wars." The rest is history. Now, 28 years later, the 350 most amazing Star Wars movie posters are collected for the first time. This compilation spans the surreal to ultra realistic, the campy to darkly serious: Darth Vader's head exploding in a shower of camera parts; Anakin Skywalker casting an ominous Sith shadow; C-3PO and R2-D2 selling Star Wars shoes; Luke and Vader in mortal battle aboard the Death Star. Classic posters are joined with text by the world's foremost Star Wars collector, Stephen Sansweet, and poster collector Peter Vilmur, behind-the-scenes stories from artists and designers, a scarcity guide to over 2,000 posters, and a bootleg identification guide. Exploding with color, The Star Wars Poster Book illuminates an unexplored corner of Star Wars history.

2005 by Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Sweet...:

There are SO many different posters in this book. There are so many different styles too! Abstract, paintings, puppets, photo manipulation, product ads, world-movie posters; it has everything! I love it. Oh. There's also little descriptions of each poster, however they're a little vague at times... that's the only issue I have with the book. Other than that. Great!

Great book but not comprehensive........:

This is a nice book. I waited a long time for a book like this. There are plenty of images and interesting information as well. Obviously, not every poster ever made made it into this book. However, don't let that stop you. This is a great book filled with timeless artistic images from that galaxy far, far, away. :)

Best Deal ever!:

At the price I got this for and the shape it was in, it was a definate steal!

Around the world and across the galaxy....:

The artwork in this amazing book speaks for itself! - incredible reference and resource to all the movie posters for this groundbreaking, earthshaking blockbuster that keeps on going into hyper-space year after year.... any collector or artist would LOVE to have this in their collection!

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