The Reefs of Taprobane: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylon de Arthur C Clarke - 1957

I Books, 2002-07-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

I Books, 2002-07-01. Paperback. Good.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1957. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 205 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Some tanning from age to edges, otherwise pages clean. Cover boards bound in blue, marbled cloth, red quarter cloth (some fading at spine, fraying at top and bottom). Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. Clarke explores a reef and the people of southern Sri Lanka. No dust jacket. Record # 372802

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wilson, Mike (photos). 205pp.; HB quarter-bound; blue w/orange&blk.; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; spine sunned; inked out PON; dj flaps taped to endpapers; clean,tight pgs. Sci-Fi writer Clarke & photographer Wilson explores the seas around Ceylon. illus.

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Harper & Brothers 205 pages. Stated first edition, with C-G code. Covers show a little rubbing and light wear along/near the edges. A 1.5 x 3 inch illustration of unknown origin is affixed to the upper outside corner of the front free end leaf, covering a portion of the map. Top hinge (internal) is just a little shaken. Dust jacket is present, but with multiple closed and open tears. Most of lettering and illustrations on jacket remain good. Jacket is now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve. . First Edition. Cloth - Hardcover. Good/Poor.

Hassell Street Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

*** ASSOCIATION COPY ***The Reefs of Taprobane: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylon, Harper & Brothers, 1957, first edition, upper rear fore edge corner bumped causing some creasing to the same corner of half the text block, else a just about vg copy. INSCRIBED by the author dated at time of publication to his long time friend Val Cleaver. INSCRIBED or SIGNED copies of this book are rare. De-accessed from the B.I.S. with the B.I.S. bookplate on the f.p.d.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Spine slightly faded, else near fine without dustwrapper. Inscribed by Arthur C. Clarke to his protégé, one-time secretary, and longtime friend Ian Macauley, who was the dedicatee of his first hardcover novel (*Islands in the Sky*): "To Ian and Elsa, with my very best wishes for your future happiness - and hoping that you'll be able to visit us here one day. Arthur, 13 March '59." Macauley was an award-winning *New York Times* journalist, who also edited Clarke's book of collected essays, *Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!* (2000). Clarke wrote the last chapter of *Childhood's End* while visiting Macauley in Atlanta in 1952, where he was reportedly greatly influenced by their discussions. A splendid association copy, and not a book one usually finds signed by Clarke.