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Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xi, 302. Frontis and 4 b/w plates, one folding. New Edition, published in the same year as the first edition and the second impression came out in the July, this in the October.The author was one of the survivors. Book bound in original publisher's aubergine coloured cloth with gilt titles on the front and spine. Sound slightly used vg minus copy lacking the blank front and rear endpapers, slight split at lower spine hinge but sound.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$184.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New Edition, published in the same year as the First Edition in the July, this in the October. The author was a late Scholar of Gonville and Caius Colege and one of the survivors. Book bound in aubergine coloured cloth with gilt titles on the front and spine a little sunned along the spine. Some mior wear at spine head and corners but remaining neat and robust. Hinge and text block sound, no inscriptions. Closed page edges browned, one or two spots to pages but generally clean and clear. Frontispiece photographic image of Titanic with tissue-guard. Further illustrations and fold-out plans all present. A very well preserved copy.
Seller: David's Bookshop, Letchworth BA, Letchworth Garden City, HERTS, United Kingdom
Beesley, Lawrence;. The Loss of the R.M.S.Titanic. William Heinemann, London, 1912.
Price: US$315.35 + shipping
Description: Untertitel: ist Story and ist Lessons Untergebiet: England Abbildungen: Photos u. Pläne Zustand: Berieb., gering stockfl. Seiten: 301 S Auflage: New Edition (Okt.)im Jahr d.Erstausg. Format: 8°. Einband: Ln. Gebiet: Seefahrt
Seller: Antiquariat Narrenschiff, Trin, Switzerland
Price: US$404.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st ed. Boards have some wear, some surface marks to rear. Fading to spine. Content is clean and has mild toning. Some spotting to page ends. Minor foxing to front and rear end paper. No DJ. Previous owner gift message in ffep. 301pp.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1764.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of this important work by one of the survivors of the Titanic, a gripping and accurate account of the sinking disaster. The first edition of this scarce work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, two folding plans, and two plates.Collated, complete.Including a contemporary postcard that commemorates the sinking of the Titanic.'The Loss of the S S. Titanic' was published just nine weeks after the sinking disaster.A first hand account by one of the survivors, Lawrence Beesley.Beesley survived the Titanic by being on the Lifeboat 13 which was starboard. The lifeboat was not yet full when Beesley came near to it, and as there were no women or children in sight Beesley was instructed to jump onto the boat.After the disaster Beesley was urged by honourable lawyers and editors of newspapers to write an accurate and gripping account of the disaster for the public, who had understandably been ardently following the news of the sinking. Thus Beesley here offers an accurate and detailed account of the disaster. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some rubbing and light marks to the boards and spine, including a ring mark to the front board. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is discoloured. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Front hinge is starting but firm. Bookseller's label to the rear paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are a little age-toned with the occasional spot. Small chip to the margin of page 49/50, no loss of text. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom