SHIPS OF THE LIBERA LINE. Foreword by Frank O. Braynard.

ONE OF A VERY FEW HARDCOVER COPIES INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS FATHER - Octavo, 9 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine. The edges of the covers are slightly soiled. 92 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece and several pages of photographic illustrations. Near fine. One of a very few [9?] cloth bound copies, so identified by the author in ink at the bottom of the front endpaper: "This is one of 9 [?] hard bound copies".The book is inscribed in ink by the author to his father at the top of the front endpaper: "Dad - Even when you doubted that it would ever be, you never let me know - but I knew because I had my own doubts, too! Love, Mark".An account of the Italian shipping line Navigazione Libera Triestina. This hard cover copy is lacking the addenda which was issued in some of the soft cover copies.RARE in cloth.