“When the torpedo struck, Professor Holbourn had thought of lifebelts at once. Finding none on deck, he took his twelve-year-old friend Avis Dolphin to his cabin corridor. Little Avis was feeling somewhat like Dorothy in the new Oz book, whose familiar and secure world had been sent topsy-turvy by a cyclone.”
Hoehling and Hoehling chronicle the last days of the Lusitania, the huge ocean liner torpedoed and sunk on May 7, 1915. Never before had an unarmed passenger ship been attacked without warning… 1198 persons died with it that day. This copy was once housed in the Independence Seaport Museum of Philadelphia collection.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1956. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 255 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with chipping and edge wear—in protector. Boards clean and bright with some bumping to corners. Binding tight and square. Pages slightly tanned. Wonderful copy with interesting provenance.
