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lazypadawan ([personal profile] lazypadawan) wrote2007-11-02 07:54 pm

Star Wars Vault

My copy of "Star Wars Vault," a massive book by Steve Sansweet and Pete Vilmur, arrived today from Amazon.com. Obviously, I haven't had time to sit down and read the whole thing, but I've flipped through it to see what it had.

You have to buy this. Seriously.

I know it's expensive (I got the bargain price of $53), but if you're going to buy only one SW book this year, buy this one. Do whatever it takes. Sell your bodily fluids if you have to. If you're any kind of SW fan at all, this is a must-have. It has two CDs of radio ads, rare interviews, and Princess Leia warbling away during the Holiday Special. It has reproductions of all kinds of cool stuff you can pull out to look at, including ads, invitations to various events, George Lucas's handscribbled notes, John Williams's handwritten music sheets, stickers, advertisements, newsletters, postcards, stickers, filmstrips, etc.. A lot of it is stuff I'd never seen before, such as a Queen Amidala tarot card used as an invitation to a Lucasfilm function or rare photos from the set of ANH.

I can't wait to dig through it all!
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[personal profile] nic 2007-11-03 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you had a chance to read the written content? Any thoughts on that?

[identity profile] lazypadawan.livejournal.com 2007-11-03 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I started reading some of the written content...this is a book that's bigger on visuals than on information but it's still interesting.