A Night to Remember
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. Item #2353171
3rd printing. Very good in fair jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with significant internal tear along spine edges repaired on reverse with tape, some minor chips, ink initials and numbers on front endpaper, fore edge of plate pages a bit foxed, spine and jacket reverse a bit foxed.
209 pp. Includes two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. A Night To Remember is the gut-wrenching, minute-by minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and worst in human nature. Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in the boats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped below decks. Sought help in vain."
Price: $20.00