The Canadian Pacific Quadruple-Screw Liner, Empress of Britain

Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket (price-clipped). The jacket has a tiny spot along its top-edge and three short scratches on the rear panel. NO chips. NO creases. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Previous owner's small name-stamp. Pages are crisp and clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First printing of the Updated and Expanded Edition. Oversize Hardcover. 10.5" wide by 13" tall. Illustrated with 247 drawings, diagrams, photographs, and 6 fold-out plans with meticulous details of the ship's design and building. Frontispiece drawing of Empress of Britain by Kenneth Shoesmith. This is No. 4 in the NYGS OCEAN LINERS OF THE PAST series. The book includes a facsimile reprint of the complete souvenir issue of The Shipbuilder & Marine Engine-Builder, published in 1931 on the occasion of the Empress of Britain's maiden voyage. Introduction and epilogue by Leslie Reade. This edition has a new introduction and is updated with the ship's later history describing events each year from 1931 until 1940 when she was sunk by two torpedoes from the German submarine, U32. The Empress of Britain was the largest Allied merchant vessel lost in the Second World War. Bound in the original yellow cloth, with a brown cloth spine stamped in shiny gold. Includes dust jacket.. Updated and Expanded Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Shoesmith, Kenneth. (v), 144pp.