[Rarebooks] For Sale: Passenger Liner Memorabilia - a fun lot

[Norman Kane]

BURNING OF THE MORRO CASTLE. WALTZ. WORDS AND MUSIC BY IRVING DEGRAW, 
JR.  Little Falls, N. J.: Irving DeGraw, Jr., 376 Main St., (1934.) 
(Arranged by Tom Brino.) Large sheet musics, [6] pages. Large color artist's
  rendering of the great ship on fire & tropical trees.  On page [2]: 
"Ask for this song on your favorite record and piano roll."  Traces 
of a corner crease, a few small marginal tears, otherwise a nice, 
bright copy.  (For a short account of this tragedy, see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Morro_Castle)

BABCOCK, F. LAWRENCE.  SPANNING THE ATLANTIC.  N. Y.: Knopf, 1931.
First edition.  Original cloth, very good, in a worn dust wrapper 
lacking pieces. (An illustrated history of the Cunard 
Line.)  WITH:  A large pictorial Cunard Line baggage label featuring 
the old "Aquitania" pasted to the front end paper; in an ad hoc 
pocket at the rear: an unused color postcard of the old "Mauretania", 
a large Cunard Line baggage tag in color featuring the "Mauretania" 
as seen from the bow, an illustrated flyer, "Electricity Afloat" 
about the "Queen Mary" and an illustrated brochure "Questions and 
Answers About the New Superliner 'The Queen Mary' " with a travel 
agent's stamp.

The lot,  $150.00     (Trade Discount Available.)


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