In 2005, the National Business Travel Association, or NBTA, commissioned a custom book from the Cartoon Bank, The Lighter Side of Business Travel, a New Yorker cartoon collection. The NBTA did the same again in 2008, publishing another custom cartoon book with the exact same title but a different cover, also designated as a first edition. Presumably, the 2008 book is not merely a reprint of the 2005 book, but it's hard to be certain without examining them side by side. Instead, I examined the eBay listings side by side, surely the next best thing. They are archived below, with the newer collection first, because those photos are the better ones. Incidentally, the NBTA is now the Global Business Travel Association, or GBTA, but there are no new cartoon collections to show for it.
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| The Lighter Side of Business Travel (2008) eBay listing accessed February 8, 2022 |
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| The Lighter Side of Business Travel (2008) eBay item description |
I'm afraid we don't get nearly as good a look at the 2005 collection:
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| The Lighter Side of Business Travel (2005) eBay listing accessed February 9, 2022 |
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| The Lighter Side of Business Travel (2005) eBay item description |
Note: Well, there you have it. An easy way to compare these two books would be to compare their artist indices. The one from 2008 is already included in the first listing, but I would like to be able to also post a scan of the Index of Artists from the 2005 edition, that is, the collection with Pandora's Carry-On by Robert Leighton on the cover. Please help me out, if you can.
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