The Cruise Of The Kronprinz Wilhelm

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Good. 1931. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Third US printing. This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and fraying, along with a couple of small edge tears. The covers have spotting and ground-in dirt. There are several spots of discoloration to the rear cover and the bottom rear book end has loss of color to the cloth the entire length of the rear cover. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is a large previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page. "SS Kronprinz Wilhelm was a German passenger liner built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company now part of Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) , in 1901. She took her name from Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. She had a varied career, starting off as a world-record-holding passenger liner, then becoming an auxiliary warship from 1914–1915 for the Imperial German Navy, sailing as a commerce raider for a year, and then interned in the United States when she ran out of supplies. " (from Wikipedia) .