Whitman Publishing, LLC; $19.99

Collectible Movie Posters: Illustrated Guide With Auction Prices is a book you’re going to have to sit with a while. It’s not that it’s a difficult read or so text heavy that it will take a long time to read, but you’re just going to want to take some time and let it soak in.

The premise of this book is that is will give the reader the basic answer to a question that has puzzled many a collector: “What makes a movie poster valuable?” It readily succeeds identifying the top 100 posters and gives collectors some real insight into what might make a poster collectible, but it’s also an almost impossibly wonderful resource for artists who need a spark of inventiveness.

Casting across much of cinema history with one-sheets, lobby cards and other display images from great, near-great and even some not-so-great movies, this book captures some wonderful, rare achievements.

From Disney films to the Universal horror classics, from Casablanca to Gilda, from The Adventures of Robin Hood to This Gun For Hire, from Mary Pickford to the Marx Brothers, this is not a mere resource. It is a treasure trove built at the intersection of art and cinema.