EVERETT, Marshall. Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic.

The Ocean's Greatest Disaster: a Graphic and Thrilling Account of the Sinking of the Greatest Floating Palace Ever Built Down to Watery Graves More Than 1,500 Souls. Giving Exciting Ecapes From Death and Acts of Heroism not equalled in ancient or modern times, told by The Survivors. Including history of icebergs, the terror of the seas; wireless telegraphy and modern shipbuilding. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings made expressly for this book.

Published by L. H. Walter, 1912. First edition. Octavo. pp. 320. Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Illustration of the Titanic laid on upper cover. Spine professionally rebacked preserving original backstrip. Tissue repair to margin of titlepage A very good copy. Just before midnight on April 15, 1912, the Titanic struck a gigantic iceberg in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, on its way to New York. Originally published just months after The Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic, this sobering yet sensationalist volume written and edited by Marshall Everett includes a collection of survivors' accounts, including close escapes and unparalleled acts of heroism. Special introduction, "Women and children first" by Rev. Henry van Dyke.

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