Older dive books

[onokai]

Well reading the want old books wanted list of Dans really cost me some$$$
I had to order few of the rare titles for winter reading.
My book shelve has a few of them he is looking for already but not all.
There are a few not on that list but belong there. I pulled them down and they are-

We come from the sea-by Hans Hass 1959-great photos

Spearfishing handbook for beginners -by I.S. Ivanovic its printed in Great Britan published by A.S> Barnes and company-no year on it
Its full of great photos of Hans Has and others-my guess late 40's and early 50's by the gear. Some very Vintage gear in almost all photos.

Diving Cutting and Welding in Underwater Savage Operations-by Frank E. Thompson-1944
reprinted in 1977 by Cornell maritime Press,Inc Cambridge Maryland
This book has some classic shallow water photos-also some pearl harbor salvage shots.
Its another in the series -the others are Marine salvage operations-Underwater work-Dan mentions these in his want list
but this one is not on it and should be.
I have some others but its late.
Mark

[onokai]

For those who may not know Divers Alert Network has some great HDS books
I'm reading Kirby Morgans book now-you can pick up a signed edition thru the Dan site
They have some hard to find books.
Mark

[SeaRat]

In my library is:

Skin Diving, by Joan and Van Ellman, The Young Sportsman's Library, Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York and Toronto, 1961.

Skin Divers In Action, by Erik Bergaust and William Foss, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1965.

The latter book was discarded from a school library in Glide, Oregon, and I think I got it for twenty-five cents.

I also have:

Inner Space, by Cdr. M. Scott Carpenter, Century Monographics #5, Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1969. This book has a lot of the SeaLab photos in it.

John

[DavidRitchieWilson]

Jan 30, 2014 0:16:59 GMT -8 onokai said:

Spearfishing handbook for beginners -by I.S. Ivanovic its printed in Great Britan published by A.S> Barnes and company-no year on it
Its full of great photos of Hans Has and others-my guess late 40's and early 50's by the gear. Some very Vintage gear in almost all photos. Mark

Interesting. Are you sure about the wording of the title? My copy of Stepen W. Collins' Down to the sea with books: NAUI International Bibliography of Diving and Related Sciences (1973) lists two titles by I. S. (Vane) Ivanović:

Ivanović, I. S. Spearfishing. New York, New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1951.
Ivanović, I. S. Modern Spearfishing. New York, New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1955.

There's a longer list of editions of these books at
Classic Dive Books
which mentions a book entitled Sub-marine Spearfishing, published by Nicholas Kaye of London in 1951, but no mention of "Spearfishing for beginners". The page has pictures of the book covers:



On my bookshelf, I have copies of the last two of these, namely Modern Spearfishing, 1955, apparently a first edition (purchased for £2.50), published by Nicholas Kaye of London; and Modern Spearfishing, published by Henry Regnery of Chicago, bought for £2.75 but sadly not a first edition, though loved nevertheless!

David