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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. Account of the 1854 wreck of the Collins Line flagship 'Arctic' off the Newfoundland coast in a fog; of nearly 400 on board, only 86 or 87 were saved, all of them men. Here the author, great-grandson of the President of the Collins Line, many of whose family were on board, details the wreck & its causes, the aftermath & effect on safety regulations, and the fates - and excuses - of the survivors. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor scuffing, crease to front flap, hint of waterstain to lower front corner, worse waterstain to rear corner - book seems unaffected; rubberstamped name. Text clean; 255 pages + 16 b/w plates; index, appendix, poem. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York:G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1961). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Good. New York:G. P. Putnam's Sons. (1961).  255pp.  Illustrated.  Signed and inscribed by the Author on the verso of the first free endpage.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  Red boards in very good, clean condition.  Page edges soiled. Previous owners bookplate to the first free endpage.  The dust jacket is only in good condition, with extensive soiling from dust residue along edges and shelf-wear, including small chips and tears, to edges and seams.  *On September 27, 1854, America's largest and most magnificent ocean liner, the wooden hull paddle steamer Arctic, pride of the Collins Line, sank with the loss of more than 300 lives off the coast of Newfoundland after colliding with a small French iron steamer, The Vesta. 

London: Frederick Muller,, 1962. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Slight foxing to fore-edge and endpapers, otherwise near very good indeed in slightly foxed and edge torn, near very good, price-clipped dust jacket.

Warwick, Va: 'Ballymena', 1954. First edition. 23pp. 4to. Blue wrappers. Fine. First edition. 23pp. 4to. With 2 TLSs to Percy Chubb from the author about Chubb Brothers and the wreck.