First edition salesman copy of MEMORIAL EDITION - SINKING OF THE TITANIC 1912. (Mowbray, Jay Henry. Sinking of the "Titanic" Most Appalling Ocean Horror with Graphic Descriptions of Hundreds Swept to Eternity Beneath the Waves;... Harrisburg (PA): The Minter Company). 8vo, printed cloth boards with tipped in photo of a painting of the ship. Accompanied by 7 original, period snapshot photographs, approx. 3.375 x 5.5 in. (with water damage at the edges). One appears to be a previously unpublished photograph of the famous RMS Carpathia Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and other photos from the deck of the White Star Line ships showing unknown passengers. Book contents: 15 full-page plates, several of survivors, others of the ship and lifeboats, etc., table of contents, 16 more full-page images, including the Captain Smith, John Jacob and Mrs. Astor, more views of the ship; Chapter 1 (pp 17-32), pp 161-175, list of subscribers. Condition: Salesman's sample book quite worn but interestingly with full page of filled-in "subscribers."
First edition salesman copy of MEMORIAL EDITION - SINKING OF THE TITANIC 1912. (Mowbray, Jay Henry. Sinking of the "Titanic" Most Appalling Ocean Horror with Graphic Descriptions of Hundreds Swept to Eternity Beneath the Waves;... Harrisburg (PA): The Minter Company). 8vo, printed cloth boards with tipped in photo of a painting of the ship. Accompanied by 7 original, period snapshot photographs, approx. 3.375 x 5.5 in. (with water damage at the edges). One appears to be a previously unpublished photograph of the famous RMS Carpathia Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and other photos from the deck of the White Star Line ships showing unknown passengers. Book contents: 15 full-page plates, several of survivors, others of the ship and lifeboats, etc., table of contents, 16 more full-page images, including the Captain Smith, John Jacob and Mrs. Astor, more views of the ship; Chapter 1 (pp 17-32), pp 161-175, list of subscribers. Condition: Salesman's sample book quite worn but interestingly with full page of filled-in "subscribers."
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