The Jervis Bay Goes Down by Gene Fowler, published by Random House, New York. Copyright 1941, with “Third Printing” stated. This work recounts the sinking of HMS Jervis Bay in November 1940 during the Second World War, when the armed merchant cruiser engaged the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer to protect a convoy. The volume includes Fowler’s poem and a contemporary newspaper account of the event. The publisher notes that royalties and profits from this edition were donated to the Bundles for Britain Fund.

This 1941 Random House edition is bound in blue cloth with printed paper label to the front board and retains the original dust jacket priced at 50 cents. An early wartime printing reflecting the book’s contemporary historical context.