A Night to Remember. [STATED FIRST EDITION]
by Lord, Walter
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Good. Octavo. 209, (1)pp. Index. Dust jacket over yellow & dark blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue. Illustrated with endpaper schematics of the Titanic, and 32 unnumbered plates. Dj is price clipped and edge worn with some light stains and small chips at extremities of spine.
Contents: "Another Belfast trip" -- "There's talk of an iceberg, Ma'am" -- "God himself could not sink this ship" -- "You go and I'll stay a while" -- "I believe she's gone, Hardy" -- "That's the way of it at this kind of time" -- "There is your beautiful nightdress gone" -- "It reminds me of a bloomin' picnic" -- "We're going North like hell" -- "Go away-- we have just seen our husbands drown."
This book depicts the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. The book was hugely successful, and is still considered a definitive resource about the Titanic. Lord interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster as well as drawing on books, memoirs, and articles that they had written. In 1986, Lord authored his follow-up book, The Night Lives On, following renewed interest in the story after the wreck of the Titanic was discovered by Robert Ballard.--Wikipedia.
Walter Lord's classic bestseller, and the definitive account of the unsinkable ship's fateful last hours At first, no one but the lookout recognized the sound. Passengers described it as the impact of a heavy wave, a scraping noise, or the tearing of a long calico strip. In fact, it was the sound of the world's most famous ocean liner striking an iceberg, and it served as the death knell for 1,500 souls. In the next two hours and forty minutes, the maiden voyage of the Titanic became one of history's worst maritime accidents. As the ship's deck slipped closer to the icy waterline, women pleaded with their husbands to join them on lifeboats. Men changed into their evening clothes to meet death with dignity. And in steerage, hundreds fought bitterly against certain death. At 2:15 a.m. the ship's band played "Autumn." Five minutes later, the Titanic was gone. (OCLC).
Contents: "Another Belfast trip" -- "There's talk of an iceberg, Ma'am" -- "God himself could not sink this ship" -- "You go and I'll stay a while" -- "I believe she's gone, Hardy" -- "That's the way of it at this kind of time" -- "There is your beautiful nightdress gone" -- "It reminds me of a bloomin' picnic" -- "We're going North like hell" -- "Go away-- we have just seen our husbands drown."
This book depicts the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912. The book was hugely successful, and is still considered a definitive resource about the Titanic. Lord interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster as well as drawing on books, memoirs, and articles that they had written. In 1986, Lord authored his follow-up book, The Night Lives On, following renewed interest in the story after the wreck of the Titanic was discovered by Robert Ballard.--Wikipedia.
Walter Lord's classic bestseller, and the definitive account of the unsinkable ship's fateful last hours At first, no one but the lookout recognized the sound. Passengers described it as the impact of a heavy wave, a scraping noise, or the tearing of a long calico strip. In fact, it was the sound of the world's most famous ocean liner striking an iceberg, and it served as the death knell for 1,500 souls. In the next two hours and forty minutes, the maiden voyage of the Titanic became one of history's worst maritime accidents. As the ship's deck slipped closer to the icy waterline, women pleaded with their husbands to join them on lifeboats. Men changed into their evening clothes to meet death with dignity. And in steerage, hundreds fought bitterly against certain death. At 2:15 a.m. the ship's band played "Autumn." Five minutes later, the Titanic was gone. (OCLC).
Synopsis
Recounts the demise of the "unsinkable" Titanic, the massive luxury liner that housed extravagances such as a French "sidewalk cafe" and a grand staircase, but failed to provide enough lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers on board.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53859
- Title
- A Night to Remember. [STATED FIRST EDITION]
- Author
- Lord, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean, Marine accidents
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