The Silent World.

COUSTEAU, Jacques Yves with Frederic Dumas.

Item Number: 135912

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1953.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “To Richard Williams Wishing him the best of clear waters, Jacques Cousteau.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

Before becoming the man who introduced us to the wonders of the sea through his beloved television series, Jacques Cousteau was better known as an engineer and the inventor of scuba. He chronicled his early days of underwater adventure in The Silent World—a memoir that was an instant, international bestseller upon its publication in 1953.