Ocean Liners (5 results)
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents
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Add to basketCondition: VG. Five individual menus, each on heavy card stock, each 12 x 18 inches folded in half once. Front panel on each menu is color illustration painted by C. Macouillard. VG plus. Clean and bright, almost no wear at all.
More imagesPublished by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, (New York), 1926
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA
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Add to basketPrinted Wrappers, Stapled. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Although undated, we've posited 1926 as publication date based on the style of the cover and photographs. 8vo (measures 6 x 9.25 inches). Unpaginated [24 pp.] Promotional brochure intended for American travelers. Frontis. illustration. Substantially illustrated with bl…ack-and-white photography, mostly interior shots, along with a couple exterior views featuring passengers strolling on decks. Borders of photos are enhanced with line drawings. Bound in folded blue stock with three-color design printed on the front cover. Saddle-stapled, with staples oxidized at the centerfold with slight migration of rust. A well preserved copy. A superb brochure for one of the fabled ocean liners of the Jazz Age, the S.S. France of the French Line fleet operated by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. She entered into service the week following the sinking of the Titanic. Following WWI, the France was "Weekly Express Service" between New York and England or France. Published in New York for discriminating Yank travelers, many of whom enjoyed transatlantic travel as an escape from Prohibition constricts, and indeed showed a club-like allegiance to The France. In somewhat breathless prose ("she isn't as big as the biggest, but neither is the Ritz . In speed she is one of the fastest liners on the Atlantic - and one of the most luxurious"), the swanky attributes of the ship are extolled, as well as the refined company one would keep among fellow passengers. Photos promote first class cabins, staterooms and suites, the grand salon, dining salon, smoking room, children's playroom, gymnasium and deck activity, including a tennis match. The cover is an exquisite exercise in restrained French styling, presenting an art-deco porthole vignette of the ship's red funnels. A charming publication, quite scarce: No copies were located by OCLC. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing. .
More imagesPublished by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, (New York), 1926
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA
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Add to basketPrinted Wrappers, Stapled. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Although undated, we've posited 1926 as publication date based on the styles of the cover and photographs, and the history of the ship. 8vo (measures 6 x 9.25 inches). Unpaginated [24 pp.] Promotional brochure intended for American travelers. Frontis. illustration. Sub…stantially illustrated with black-and-white photography, mostly interior shots, along with a couple exterior views featuring passengers strolling on decks. Borders of photos are enhanced with line drawings. Bound in folded brown stock with two-color art-deco design printed on the front cover. Slight edge-wear, light dampstain spanning the gutter of all leaves and with slight abrasion, smaller than a US dime, at the top right corner of the cover. A well preserved copy. A superb art deco brochure for one of the fabled ocean liners of the Jazz Age, the S.S. Paris of the French Line fleet operated by Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. We suspect this brochure was produced prior to sinking after a 1929 fire; although refloated, activity was chastened by the Great Depression; promoting luxurious travel with lavish collateral was likely limited. However, in the mid- to late-'20s she was providing "Weekly Express Service" between New York and England or France. Published in New York for discriminating Yank travelers, many of whom enjoyed transatlantic travel as an escape from Prohibition constricts. In somewhat breathless prose ("how delightfully life is arranged on the Paris! You, Madame, may desire to entertain in the exclusive individuality of your own luxe suite . "), the swanky attributes of the ship are extolled, as well as the refined company one would keep among fellow passengers. Photos promote first class cabins, staterooms and suites, the grand salon, dining salon, smoking room, children's playroom, gymnasium and deck activity. The cover is an exquisite exercise in restrained art-deco styling, presenting a porthole glimpse of the ship set as a vignette within a single funnel, amid wispy smoke and rigging lines. A charming publication, quite scarce: No institutional copies are located by OCLC. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing. .
Published by February - October 1940, 1940
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketAn attractive collection, exhibiting the continuation of relatively comfortable commercial sea travel in the early years of the Second World War, before the Japanese government requisitioned large numbers of O.S.K. and N.Y.K. vessels for military use. The menus supplement a predominantly Western style of cuisine with occasional…Japanese titbits. Passengers on the Brasil Maru were treated to musical performances while they dined. 10 items, octavo. Original colour or monochrome card covers, 7 with letterpress bifolium fixed with colour string, 3 with contents printed direct (1 of these formed from sheet folding into quarters). Light wear, especially to largest examples, foxing and a little soiling: a very good collection.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United KingdomPatrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB
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Add to basketThe edges are slightly warped, otherwise in very good condition.
