Various: pre-war - "Distinguished Liners from The Shipbuilder 1906-1914, Volume 1"

Ship History:  "Distinguished Liners from The Shipbuilder 1906-1914, Volume 1", edited by Mark Warren, printed 1995, hardbound w/ original dust jacket, 224 pages. In this volume Warren complies all the special launch issues from the famed British publication, "The Shipbuilder".  Covering the years 1906 to 1914, forty ships are profiled, ranging from the EMPRESS OF IRELAND (summer 1906) to METAGAMA and MMISSANABIE (December 1914).   As the cover illustration shows, the OLYMPIC and TITANIC are included.  Other notable ships: LUSITANIA and MARUETANIA, EDINBURGH CASTLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, AVON, VOLTURNO, FRANCE, ASCANIA, and even the White Star Line tender (and sole surviving vessel) NOMADIC.  There are numerous fold-outs with deck plans and cutaway, hundreds of interior photos, and many pages of period advertising. I once commented to Mark about the luxuriously tight binding on the book. He explained that he and partner Michael hand-bound each book to create the custom fit, a labor of lov