Hawaiian Surfboard
Honolulu, HI: Paradise of the Pacific Press, 1935.
First edition, first printing. 95 pp. Bound in publisher's hand-painted tapa cloth with titles in black on upper board. Near Fine with splaying to boards, light wear. Lacking the dust jacket, though small remnants of the flaps are adhered to the pastedowns, as the jacket was issued by the publisher with the flaps adhered there. Light offsetting at endhseets.Part surfing instruction manual, part history of surfing, the first of its kind by American surf legend Tom Blake. Blake innovated new designs of boards and developed the live saving hollow surf board. “The most important publication in the surfing canon.” - Timothy DeLaVega 200 Years of Surfing Literature B28. Item #140948168
Price: $4,500