The Art of Wave Riding

by Ron Drummond

$4,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Hollywood, CA: The Cloister Press, 1931. First edition. Bound in publisher's pictorial stiff wraps. 26 pp. Near Fine with light toning, slight edge wear and minor foxing to rear cover at spine. Generally regarded as the first book devoted to surfing. This instructional pamphlet on bodysurfing was written to address the pitiful sight of thousands of swimmers, young and old, men and women, always trying and never succeeding

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