Fire at Sea: the Story of the Morro Castle by Thomas Gallagher - 1960

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Pan Books Ltd, 1962. Paperback. Good. 1962. This Edition. 187 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pan book G569. Black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Lyons Press, 2003-08-01. Paperback. Good.

Rinehart & Company, NY, 1959,, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Octavo, hardcover, VG in edgeworn black dj with chips and tears. (not price-clipped). First Ed. 280pp, illustrated with 8 pages of photos, about a ship plunging to NY from Havana in the late 1920's. Suddenly sheets of fire engulfed the ship.

New York: Rinehart, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover. 280 pp. with passenger list and crew list. Illustrated with photos. Fine in very good, price clipped dust jacket with modest wear at the spine ends. Laid in are a first day cover from the 75th anniversary of the wreck as a folded facsimile of the ship's dinner menu from June 1934. The SS Morro Castle (named after the 16th century fortress that guarded Havana harbor and first launched in 1930) was an American passenger liner that caught fire at sea and ran aground off Asbury Park, New Jersey on September 8, 1934. The previous night, the ship's captain, Robert Willmot, had suddenly died in his cabin and replaced in command by Chiel Officer William Warms. Just before three in the morning, a fire broke out in a storage locker; the fire quickly burned through the electical cables, plunging the ship into darkness, and quickly spreading through the ship. The response of the crew was slow, as was the launching of rescue ships by the Coast Guard… Read More

New York: Rinehart, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. First edition. Outer edges of pages browned, dustwrapper spine browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Frederick Muller Limited, London, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor/Poor. 280 pages (complete). The desperation and destruction of Morro Castle in 1934, four years after her maiden voyage, by fire led to considerable safety changes to the construction and maintenance of cruise-liners. The dustjacket of this copy of Gallagher's investigation into the fire, is scruffy, worn, wrinkled from damp but filmicly dramatic. It is secure and sure. The contents are mild, bold, aged, confident, clean and clear. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York: Rinehart & Company, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. 280 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Related magazine clippings glued to preliminary pages. Price clipped dust jacket with foxing, wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages. Record # 613678

Rinehart. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. A book that is used but still very attractive WITH DUSTJACKET ; 9.12992125053 X 6.57086613503 X 1.11023621934 inches .

London: Pan Books Ltd., 1962. Soft cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tears, scuffing, creases on corners of front cover affecting first few pages. Fluid stain from a liquid spill on the first few pages. Two inch tear and a little peeling at the base of the spine.