FUN IN THE WATER- Rare 1952 "Book"

[Sam Miller III]

FUN IN THE WATER
By Commander Bob Winston, USNR
With Drawings by Eric Gurney
1952, Price $1.00
June, Osborn, Foster & Smith, 350 Fifth Ave, NYC
No ISBN or LCCC numbers
Soft cover, 8-1/2 X 11
Fully Illustrated with line drawings
61 pages
This is one of the missing links of American Diving history, ranking rarity and collectability just below Williamson's "20 years under the sea" published in 1936 and Gilpatric's classic work "Compleat Goggler" published in 1938.
The book describes via verbiage and numerous humorous illustrations the crude diving equipment, diving techniques, and harvesting of 1952.

 

[covediver]

Wow. this is indeed a rare one. I had a copy purchased from Acre of Books in Long Beach back in the early 1990s. It got cast off to another used bookstore in one of my many moves during that period.

 

[Sam Miller III]

Like the Winchester I in 1000 or the JBL gold plated spear gun gun- Rare!

The books owned by diving bibliophile collectors are possibly all the copies that will ever be available. And not one has appeared for sale on the used book market since the appearance of E bay. Today many used book dealers toss older soft cover books I suspect FUN IN THE WATER is like the first issue of SDM published in December 1951 in which there is only about 2 dozen in circulation- Perhaps even fewer copies of FUN IN THE WATER .

It is a tragedy that you have lost yours..

SDM