John Player Publisher (4 results)

Nottingham John Player & Sons, Imperial Tobacco Company no date (ca. 1934). Softcover, stappled, 16 pages with 50 colour cigarettes cards, 19x13cm., in acceptable condition (covers soiled, name on frontcover, pages and cards in good condition). Complete with all 50 cards. . An illustrated collectible album devoted to prominent film stars of the 1930s, featuring portraits of actors and actresses from the British and American film industries. The album was designed to accommodate a set of 50 cigarette cards, each presenting a colour portrait of a cinema personality accompanied by a short biographical text and, in many cases, information about their film careers and studio affiliations. Among the performers represented in the different series are Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Katharine Hepburn and Loretta Young. The album provides an interesting visual record of the international film industry during the golden age of early sound cinema and reflects the popularity of film stars and cigarette-card collecting in 1930s Britain. John Player & Sons was a British tobacco manufacturer established in Nottingham in the nineteenth century. The company became part of the Imperial Tobacco Company in 1901 but continued to market its products under the Player's brand. During the first half of the twentieth century, Player's became particularly well known for distributing illustrated collectible cards with cigarette packets. These cards covered a wide range of subjects, including cinema, sport, transport, history and natural history. Specially produced albums allowed collectors to organise and preserve their card collections. (AI-generated content description).…

London John Player & Sons, The Imperial Tobacco Company ca. 1938-1939. Softcover, stappled, 19pp., containing 50 colour cigarette cards, 19x13cm., oblong, in very good condition. Comlpete. This illustrated album provides a survey of modern naval craft from the major maritime powers during the late 1930s. It contains a series of 50 colour cigarette cards depicting battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and other warships from Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the Soviet Union. Each card is accompanied by descriptive information, while additional monochrome illustrations and explanatory text provide further details about the vessels and their characteristics. Among the ships represented are HMS Nelson, HMS Revenge, HMS Hood, HMS Exeter, the French cruiser Algerie, the German Admiral Graf Spee, the Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Japanese Kumano and the American USS California. The album offers an interesting visual and documentary record of international naval development in the years immediately preceding the Second World War. John Player & Sons was a British tobacco manufacturer based in Nottingham, established in the nineteenth century. The company became particularly well known for its illustrated cigarette cards, distributed with cigarette packets as collectible promotional material. Its extensive series covered subjects such as shipping, aviation, military history, sport, transport and natural history. Specially designed albums enabled collectors to assemble and preserve complete card collections. (AI-generated content description).…

First Edition. Fine collections of cigarette cards in protective sleeves. Particularly well preserved, bright and clean. Physical description; 2 collections of 25 cards each : colour illustrations, 7x3 cm. Notes; Series 1 issued 1915, series 2 1916. Contents; Series 1. Shackleton's "South " Expedition (25 cards) -- Series 2; Scott and Amundsen and the journey to the South Pole (25 cards). Subjects; Polar exploration ephemera. Cigarette cards. Player's Cigarettes. Shackleton, Ernest 1874-1922. Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912. Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning 1872-1928. Antarctica. South Pole. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine collections of cigarette cards in protective sleeves. Particularly well preserved, bright and clean. Physical description; 2 collections of 25 cards each : colour illustrations, 7x3 cm. Notes; Series 1 issued 1915, series 2 1916. Contents; Series 1. Shackleton's "South " Expedition (25 cards) -- Series 2; Scott and Amundsen and the journey to the South Pole (25 cards). Subjects; Polar exploration ephemera. Cigarette cards. Player's Cigarettes. Shackleton, Ernest 1874-1922. Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912. Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning 1872-1928. Antarctica. South Pole. 1 Kg. …