FS ON EBAY THE COMPLETE GOGGLER BY GUY GILPACTRIC VERY VERY RARE

FS ON EBAY THE COMPLETE GOGGLER BY GUY GILPACTRIC VERY VERY RARE

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One of the rarest (if not the rarest) diving books
This title rarely comes onto the market
Do not miss this opportunity to add it to your diving library

THE COMPLEAT GOGGLER
By Guy Gilpatric.
First edition 1938. Dodd, Mead and Company.
Hardcover,
182 pages,
Mono prints.

The 1938 cover text is:

The new sport, which combines fishing, hunting and submarine
sightseeing.

The Complete Goggler
Being the first and only exhaustive treatise on the art of Goggle
Fishing
That most Noble and excellent sport perfected and popularized by GUY
GILPATRIC in the Mediterranean sea .Though long practised elsewhere by
other benighted savages setting forth the proper manner and making the
goggles, spears and other needful gadgets together with descriptions
of many marvels witnessed upon the bottom of the sea and fully
exposing the authors cunning methods of swimming diving and spear
fishing fish and octopi
Description: First Edition. With "1938 by Guy Gilpatric" on the
copyright page. With 33 splendid photographs of speared fish, octopi,
and the Goggler himself adorned in all his glory.
The first book on goggle fishing which includes many photos and a
folding plate of "The Dive" which was once stuck and carelessly
separated, resulting in some tears to the page facing 113.
G+ in woven green cloth stamped in gold on the front boards and spine.
The cloth and gold are rubbed and soiled. Internally very clean and
tight with some foxing to the verso of the frontispiece.
Gilpatric was an American ex-aviator living in southern France,
pioneers use of rubber goggles with glass lenses for skin diving. By
the mid-1930s, face masks, fins, and snorkels are in common use.
In 1934 Gilpatric writes of his Mediterranean exploits for The
Saturday Evening Post, and in 1938 publishes The Complete Goggler, the
first book on amateur diving and hunting. Among the book's readers: a
French naval lieutenant named Jacques Cousteau


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