A Night To Remember.
“But legends are part of great events, and if they help keep alive the memory of gallant self-sacrifice, they serve their purpose": Walter Lord's A Night To Remember; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
A Night To Remember.
LORD, Walter.
$1,400.00
Item Number: 143668
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955.
First edition of this classic work, which mainly served as the basis for the 1997 film Titanic. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
A Night to Remember is a work by Walter Lord that depicts the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. The book was hugely successful, and is still considered a definitive resource about the Titanic. Lord interviewed 63 survivors of the disaster as well as drawing on books, memoirs, and articles that they had written.
