The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic, April 14-15, 1912

by John B. Thayer

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Philadelphia: John B. Thayer, 1940. First edition, first printing. Number 303 of a limited 500 copies signed by John Thayer on the limitation page. Near Fine with light rubbing to spine and covers, small bit of paint to bottom cloth at edge, modest edge wear and faint toning to contents. An account by a survivor who was 17 at the time of the Titanic's sinking, and one of the 40 or so people who fell off or jumped into the

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