[Rarebooks] fs: USS Mercy, hospital ship, Scarce World War I history

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 8616 )  [Officers and Crew of the USS Mercy]. THE U.S.S. MERCY, A
SOUVENIR LOG OF THE PART IT PLAYED IN THE WORLD WAR [BRINGING HOME THE
WOUNDED THE U.S.S. MERCY 1918-1919, COVER TITLE].
(S.l.): Published by the Ship, [1920?]. Full cloth, Quarto, 94 pages, Black
& White photographs. Good.
      Illustrated record of the World War I cruises of the U.S. Navy
Hospital ship USS Mercy. The Mercy, formerly the Ward Liner Saratoga, was
commissioned in January 1918 and based in Yorktown, Virginia. She ferried
supplies and wounded men from ships to shore in the U.S., and even made four
trips to France and back herself. Inc addition to many photographs there are
crew lists, details of shipboard activities and departments, and a fold-out
photograph of the officers and crew on 31 May 1919. Bound in black cloth
over boards with gilt-decorated upper board. Some rubs to extremities,
shallow chips at spine ends, some mild browning to endpapers. Binding
remains sound. A few leaves have closed edge tears. The fold-out photograph
been neatly repaired with archival tissue where cleanly separated along one
fold. Good copy of this rather scarce ship history.    $150.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/8616.jpg

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