SLOPER, W.T.
The Life and Times of Andrew Jackson Sloper
First edition. Page edges foxed, else fine in the original, unprinted clear acetate dustwrapper (not shown in illustration) and fine slipcase. Privately printed memoir by a stockbroker, and Titanic survivor, ostensibly about his father, but mostly his own memoirs, including a chapter on his account of the sinking. Sloper escaped on Boat 7, one of the first away, when no attempt was being made to prevent men from boarding the boats. Later a New York newspaper reported that Sloper, a first-class passenger, had boarded the lifeboat dressed in women's clothing, which he was forced to refute for the rest of his life. Inscribed by the author: "To Margaret Williams, Whose house was always open to me when I was a lovesick Hotchkiss School 'boy' in 1902-1903. William T. Sloper." Exceptionally scarce.
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