You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago: The Stoked Side of Surfing or How to Hang Ten Through Life and Stay Happy.

EDWARDS, Phil with Bob Ottum.

$2,800.00

Item Number: 145184

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.

First edition of this classic profile of ‘the surfer’s surfer.’ Octavo, original sky blue cloth, illustrated with full-page photographs. Lengthily signed by the author opposite the copyright page: “You should have been here …. Phil Edwards.” Very good in a very good dust jacket, with dampstaining to the book. Jacket photograph by Lynn Pelham-Rapho-Guillumette. Photograph of Bob Ottum by Jerry Cooke.

In 'You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago,' co-authors Phil Edwards and Bob Ottum bring readers the image of what it's like to surf in waters alive with sparkle in the quickest-stoking sport ever. During the composition of this book, Sports Illustrated Associate Editor, Bob Ottum, swallowed some 23.3 gallons of salt water on his way to becoming the Phil Edwards of surfing-writers.