Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Marshall, Logan (edited by) (Pen Name Of Logan Howard-Smith) - 1912

No Place: L. T. Myers. Very Good-. 1912. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have red and black illustrations over a dark yellow cloth cover. There is a square illustrated pastedown photographon the front cover that has some scraping and wear to the edges. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have some bumping and rubbing, and both spine ends have had thin strips of cloth torn off. The rear cover has some toning, and spots of ground-in dirt or foxing. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page, and a smallish gold sticker to the front endpaper. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. This book contains a copy of the "Spiritual Consolation to the Survivors of the Titanic" that was published on April 18, 1912, and also a chapter at the end about the goings-on of the Senatorial Investigation regarding the wreck, which was started in April 1912 as well. "Logan Marshall (born 18 November 1883) , was the pen name of Logan Howard-Smith of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Howard-Smith was the son of Robert Spurrier and Elizabeth (McKinney) Howard-Smith. The father was an executive of Link-Belt. Howard-Smith attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1905. Upon graduation he took a position as assistant editor at The John C. Winston Co. , a publishing firm. Winston was later acquired by Henry Holt and became part of Holt, Rinehart & Winston. At Winston, Howard-Smith both edited and wrote a large number of books, mainly under the pen name Logan Marshall. These were often quickly produced and designed to satisfy public curiosity concerning a current event. As a result, Howard-Smith has been characterized as a "hack", and his language criticized as "strained, excessive, or melodramatic." Howard-Smith's (as Logan Marshall) The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, however, achieved a great deal of fame as a result of being quickly at the market, and continues to be cited in bibliographies about the incident. " (from Wikipedia) .