THE SILENT WORLD by Dumas, frederic & J Y COUSTEAU - first edition , 1973

ballantine books, first edition , 1973. fine trade paperback,

Harper and Brothers, 1953. first edition. hardcover. very good- : bumped top corners, age wear/soiling to boards, toning/foxing to pastedowns and endpapers, gift inscription on FFEP. Text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 266pp. 48 pp. b/w photos, 16 pp. of color photos. stated first edition (A-C Harper Brothers code). Cousteau and Émile Gagnan designed, built, and tested the first "aqua-lung" in the summer of 1943, off the southern coast of France. In the opening chapters, Cousteau recounts the earliest days of scuba diving with his diving companions Frédéric Dumas and Philippe Tailliez. The aqualung allowed for the first time untethered, free-floating extended deep water diving, and ushered in the modern era of scuba diving. Later chapters include excursions diving to shipwrecks. Became the basis for the popular 1956 documentary film scarce first edition . #00821.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harper. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1953. Clean & Tight Contents. Hard Cover. (G376) a good hard cover with a good dust jacket "L-E" on the copyright .

HarperCollins, 1953-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hamish Hamilton. Collectible - Fair/No Dust Wrapper. 1953. Spine Lean. Hard Cover. (G396) flat signed by "J Y Cousteau" on the title page; spine lean, foxing to the page edges, worn at the top of the spine, white paint stain at the top of the spine; .