[Shipboard Newspaper]

The Aorangi News. Souvenir Edition. Printed and published onboard R.M.M.S 'Aorangi' by the Pacific Wireless Press Agency [cover title]

At Sea, RMMS 'Aorangi', [1928].

Quarto, [46] mimeographed pages with some illustrations and pictorial advertisements inserted in a printed wrapper with a printed leaf of advertising at each end.

Overlapping colour pictorial title-wrappers attached to the contents (which are stapled together through the inner margins, without much attention paid to squaring up the edges); covers a little marked and creased, with short tears to the overlapping edges now expertly sealed; in excellent condition. The front cover illustration is by G.B. Norton, the other three surfaces of the wrappers carry shipboard illustrations or advertisements.

The editorial page notes that the souvenir commemorates the ship's '24th Voyage South'. The 'Ocean Autographs' page has been signed by 12 passengers; there is a loosely-inserted card in the name 'Basham', and the signature of R. Basham on the rear cover.

Item #111453

Price (AUD): $250.00
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