E.J. Pratt was one of the legends of Canadian Literature in the early to middle of the 20th Century. U of Toronto has a library named after him for this reason.

This book retells 1912's sinking of the Titanic in a modernist form, but in the language of the time, alternating between rhyming verse, quotations, and simple narrative.

This exemplar is from the first printing, signed by the author at a party a decade after publication, and includes as ephemera a note from two of the author's close friends, one of whom is an ancestor of mine - the book has been in our family for going on eighty years. Fortunately it was kept on the top shelf and not read often, so the binding is intact.