Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
PROOFS FOR THE BESTSELLING "TITANIC " WORK LORD, WALTER. A Night to Remember. Early typed page proofs, with corrections in ink and pencil throughout, mostly punctuation and small word changes or omissions, likely in Lord's or his editor's hand. A typed list of 23 possible illustrations for inclusion in the published work is bound at the end. [4], 2-155, [2] pages. 8vo, plain grey hole-punched binder, soiled. New York: Henry Holt and Co., [1955]

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Lord's extremely popular work, based on hundreds of interviews with and memoirs of Titanic survivors, is still considered a major resource on the subject. It has remained in continuous print, has been translated into twelve languages, and was adapted twice for the screen.