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(TITANIC.) Thayer, John B. The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic. 2 illustrations. 30 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, moderate staining; minor foxing; #398 of 500 copies, signed on the limitation page by the author, photograph of the author laid in; additionally signed and inscribed by the author to a Mrs. Kirby on the front free endpaper, with a later owner's signatures and address label. Philadelphia, 1940
The personal memoir of a Titanic survivor. John Borland "Jack" Thayer was 17 when disaster struck. He was unable to get into any of the lifeboats, and jumped into the water just as the ship went down. His mother survived, but his father perished.
