[Rarebooks] fs: WWI - hospital ship USS Mercy, fold-out photo

[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
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Rock
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