The Story of the Panama Canal - The Wonderful Account of the Gigantic Undertaking Commenced by the French, and Brought to Triumphant Completion by the United States with A History of Panama from the Days of Balboa to the Present Time Panama Collection

n.p., (Philadelphia?): L. T. Meyers, 1913. First impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [22.5cm/9.inches], full ebony-embossed rose-coloured cloth with map of the Canal tipped-on front cover and sans dust jacket, pp.286, with 5 appendices. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Logan Marshall, (1883-1937), was the pen name of Logan Howard-Smith of Germantown, Philadelphia. Howard-Smith attended the University of Pennsylvania graduating in 1905. Upon graduation he took a position as assistant editor at The John C. Winston Co., a Philadelphia-based publishing firm. Winston was later acquired by Henry Holt and became part of Holt, Rinehart & Winston. At Winston, Howard-Smith both edited and wrote a large number of books, mainly under the pen name Logan Marshall. These were often quickly produced and designed to satisfy public curiosity concerning a current event. As a result, Howard-Smith has been characterized as a "hack", and his language criticized as "strained, excessive, or melodramatic." Howard-Smith's -(writing as Logan Marshall)- The Sinking of the Titanic, however, achieved a great deal of fame as a result of being quickly at the market, and continues to be cited in bibliographies about the incident.