Advertising Postcard for Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur," Memorial Edition, (1908), sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co.
"Wallace Memorial Edition -- BEN-HUR: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace with halftone autographed portrait of General Wallace. Gorgeous jacket in colors and gold -- The Chariot Race -- and illustrated pictorial end sheets, 560 pages. . . It is a thrilling grand story and the handsome book of the year. The picture on the other side is a copy of the jacket . . ."
(Description on the back of the postcard)
The picture of the chariot race which first appeared on the dust jacket of this 1908 memorial edition of the book had an enormous influence on later film adaptations of the story in 1925, 1959 and 2016.
Advertising Postcard for Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur," Memorial Edition, (1908), sold by Sears, Roebuck & Co.
"Wallace Memorial Edition -- BEN-HUR: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace with halftone autographed portrait of General Wallace. Gorgeous jacket in colors and gold -- The Chariot Race -- and illustrated pictorial end sheets, 560 pages. . . It is a thrilling grand story and the handsome book of the year. The picture on the other side is a copy of the jacket . . ."
(Description on the back of the postcard)
The picture of the chariot race which first appeared on the dust jacket of this 1908 memorial edition of the book had an enormous influence on later film adaptations of the story in 1925, 1959 and 2016.