collection ephemera (5 Ergebnisse)

Collection of 19 items gathered on trips to Japan made between 1968-1970. 5 folding brochures including a small timetable for New Tokaido Line, large folding map of Japan, 3 visitor guides in stapled wrappers, 2 magazines in stapled wrappers of which one from The New Otani hotel and a copy of The Nissan Graphic May 1970 issue. 5 issues of "Facts about Japan" published by the Public Information Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Envelope from International Hotel Kyoto, Suntory coaster and a business card from Shinachu, a restaurant in Nagoya. Overall in very good condition. This collection offers an insight into the experience of tourists in Japan before the country became a major travel destination.

A collection of 7 items relating to tourism in India, late 1960s-1970. 3 Air India folding brochures, including advertisements for an "under 26 fly to London $360 from Perth" campaign and a "36 Day Study Tour" to India, Ceylon, Nepal and Hong Kong. Profusely illustrated "Festivals and Fairs" brochure, a large folding brochure and introductory guide to India in stapled wrappers with a loosely inserted folding map published by the Department of Tourism for the "1967 International Tourist Year". A copy of The Overseas Hindustan Times, April 25 1970. This collection offers insights into India's tourism industry and its government's efforts to promote inbound tourism in the late 1960s to early 1970s.

A collection of 5 items from the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). A boarding pass for flight BA911, 2 brochures advertising BOAC's "Mini Fare" ($390 from Sydney to London!) to Australian and New Zealanders under 26 years old, large folding brochure introducing the BOAC aircraft VC10, 92pp in-flight magazine in wrappers. Overall in very good condition. Collection from an Australian traveller who flew from Australia to London with BOAC around 1970.

A fascinating collection of 22 items from Japan Airlines flights between 1968-1970. 4 boarding passes, 2 luggage tags. Two large folding "JAL Word Route Map[s]", a small rectangular plastic card with map showing JAL's partner hotels in Tokyo. A large folding brochure that introduces 8 JAL aircrafts with profuse photographic illustrations. 96pp "JAL Pocket Guide" and 320pp "JAL City Guide" to destinations across East and Southeast Asia, both in Japanese and English text. 86pp English-language Japan guide in stapled wrappers. Wallet-style document holder, one with card board covers and another made from waterproof material. A blank letter set, 3 postcards and 2 "In-flight Shopping Guide" brochures loosely inserted. Overall in very good condition. This collection of Japan Airlines ephemera is from an Australian tourist who made multiple visits to Japan between 1968-1970. Japan Airlines was designated the official airline of Japan for the 1970 Osaka World Expo and its Tokyo-Sydney route was inaugurated in 1969.

Comprising 220 separate line items. Most in publisher's bindings or original wrappers, several in limp leather, limp suede, or stiff vellum, a few nicely bound in half or full morocco, and TWO PICTORIAL MOROCCO BINDINGS, one by RIVIERE (with inlaid frame of brown stems, green leaves, and purple grapes), and the other by BAYNTUN (with a reclining figure in a turban under a moonlit sky, the scene framed by titling at top and bottom and a very handsome panel on the left and right with brown stems, green leaves, and purple grapes set against a densely stippled ground). Much of the collection with bindings showing light (and in some cases moderate) wear, contents with occasional minor foxing, soiling, and similar issues, the two fine bindings rejointed; but a good portion of the books in excellent condition, with only trivial issues. Amassed over the course of many years by a passionate collector of the Rubaiyat, this is a very substantial and wide-ranging group of 220 items that attest to the work's enduring popularity more than 150 years after Edward FitzGerald introduced it to the West. Son of a wealthy Irish landowner, FitzGerald had enough money to pursue a rather desultory literary career as a "genteel gipsy" (in Terhune's words) before beginning to study languages in middle age. He started his translation of the quatrains ("rub?iy?t" in Persian) attributed to "Umar Khayyam" in 1856; according to DNB, about half of FitzGerald's final work paraphrases (rather than directly translates) portions of the 11th century poem, while the rest is original verse inspired by Omar. "The result is generally seen as being in some ways an original English poem, one that is much better known than Omar's poem is in Persian." (DNB) In Jewett's opinion, it certainly earned FitzGerald "a prominent place among the immortals of English literature." In 1858, FitzGerald submitted 25 of the "less wicked" verses to "Fraser's Magazine," only to be rejected. He had 250 copies published, anonymously, at his own expense, but had no luck selling them. Admitting defeat, he gave 200 copies to Quaritch; these sold so poorly that they were relegated to the penny bin, where Potter says they were discovered--and soon celebrated--by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne. Those copies that remained unsold when Quaritch moved to Piccadilly in 1860 were either lost or destroyed, but by 1861, Rossetti and his Pre-Raphaelite brethren, along with Celtic scholar Whitley Stokes, were evangelizing for the work, embracing the lush, lyrical verse that would move English poetry away from Victorian orthodoxy and convention. According to Day, by the end of the 19th century, "a copy of the 'Rubaiyat' upon an Oxford table was a symbol of sophistication. Today . . . it remains the most popular single poem of the Victorian era." The present collection contains a large number of editions with FitzGerald's text (the earliest examples being a Third Edition (1872), a Fourth Edition (1879), and the First Published American Edition (1878)), but it also contains a number of other important translations that followed thereafter, such as those by Justin Huntley McCarthy (First Edition, one of 60 copies on Large Paper), Eben Francis Thompson (First Edition, one of 485 copies signed by the translator), and Elizabeth Alden Curtis (First Edition, one of 600 copies), as well as translations into languages other than English, examples of which here include the First Edition in French (1867) and the First Edition in Yiddish (1926). The collection is especially strong in illustrated editions, with more than 40 different artists represented, including Edmund Dulac, Elihu Vedder, Willy Pogany, Florence Lundborg, Adelaide Hanscom, Gilbert James, Edmund J. Sullivan, Arthur Szyk, and Stephen Gooden. It also contains an impressive selection of fine press material, including limited editions issued by the Vale Press, Gregynog Press, Thomas Mosher, Essex House, the Roycrofters, and the Shakespeare H.