Signed book: The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic, April 14–15, 1912. Limited first edition of 500 copies (this being No. 441). Philadelphia: John B. Thayer, 1940. Hardcover, 6 x 9, 30 pages. Signed on the colophon by Thayer, and signed and inscribed on the first free end page, “To Dr. Francis R. Packard with best regards from John B. Thayer, Nov. 11th 1941.” In fine condition, with a strip of toning lightly affecting a couple words of inscription. This scarce relic is a private printing of the account given by Thayer’s father, John Borland III, a first-class passenger who survived the cataclysmic wreckage of the White Star passenger liner, providing essential first-hand accounts used to reconstruct the events of that fateful night. RR Auction COA
