Maggie of the Suicide Fleet. As written from the log of Raymond D. Borden, Lieutenant, U.S.N.R.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930.
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Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Herb Roth. Bookstore label on the front pastedown, else fine in very near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. The story of the pleasure yacht owned by Isaac Emerson, the "Bromo-Seltzer King," who turned it over to the American submarine patrol fleet during World War I, manned it with farmers, and set out to protect the coast, resulting in various misadventures. Nicely Inscribed to Emerson's wife, Margaret, the namesake of the yacht, by the illustrator Herb Roth, with a drawing of a sailor: "To Margaret Emerson from the Coxswain who illustrated Borden's Diary and one of the few survivors of the 'Maggie'. Herb Roth."
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