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    Author - Percy F. Westerman 

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    About Percy F. Westerman.
    He was a prolific childrens fiction writer and wrote several books with diving content and some have beautiful spines, dustjackets, covers and prints inside. 
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    There's a potted life history of Percy Westerman here. You will see he was an admiralty clerk and maybe that's where he got the diving interest from? 

     
    CAPTAIN FOSDYKES GOLD
    Percy Westerman
    Illustrated by E S Hodgson
    Published by: Blackie & Sons Ltd, London c1930. (Book not dated)
    Hardback no dustjacket;  319 printed pages. Dimensions: 20 cms tall by 13.5 cms wide.
    The book follows Rob Wroxhall, asstant engineer to a sea salvage firm aptly called Findon and Rayse and his adventures raising various wrecks.  It has 32 chapters and 6 monochrome drawings, two of which are diving.
    HAUNTED HARBOUR
    Percy Westerman
    Illustrated by: John de Walton
    Published by: Blackie & Sons Ltd, London c1940’s
    (Book not dated)
    Hardback with dustjacket - 224 printed pages
    Dimensions: 19 cms tall by 12.5 cms wide
    Another juvenile story with lots of intrigue involving smugglers, boy scouts, top secret devices and of course diving, including a duel underwater between two “hard hat” divers.  Written in 25 chapters and there are 4 monochrome prints including the “divers duelling” frontispiece.

     

     
     
    IN DEFIANCE OF THE BAN
    Percy Westerman
    . Illustrated by E S Hodgson
    Published by: Blackie & Sons Ltd, London c1930
    (Book not dated)
    Dimensions: 20 cms tall by 13 cms wide.
    Alan Brampton, the hero of the book,  builds his own aircraft which has much in common with the flight characteristics of an early helicopter. Without a licence or a certificate of airworthiness he decides to embark upon his maiden flight and ends with the inevitable crash!  The story takes the “hero” around the world and inevitably lots of diving involved.  Written in 36 chapters, the book has 4 monochrome illustrations, to of which are divers.

     
     
    RIVALS OF THE REEF
    Percy Westerman 
    Published by Blackie & Sons Limited, London & Glasgow in 1929 
    Printed hard covers with dustjacket;  320 printed pages. Dinemsions: 19.5 cms tall by 14 cms wide. 
    Written in forty chapters for juvenile reading. The book has five monochrome plates plus the frontice - one of which is a diver confronted by a hammerhead shark while he is stood in front of a treasure chest.  [pt]
    THE RED PIRATE
    THE RIVAL SUBMARINES
    Percy Westerman 
    Published by S W Partridge & Co Ltd, Old Bailey, London in1913 
    Printed hard covers no dustjacket;  432 printed pages.
    Dimensions: 20 cms tall by 14.5 cms wide. 
    Written in thirty-three chapters for juvenile reading. Has five monochrome plates plus frontice, two of which show divers. Illustrated cover depicts two divers tackling a huge conger eel with axes and another diver is shown on the sea bed injured. The spine shows a diver with a submarine in the background above him. [pt]
    THE SALVING OF THE FUSI YAMA.
    A Post War Story of the Sea
    Percy F. Westerman.
    Illus by Edward S. Hodgson.
    Blackie & Son Ltd, c1931.
    Grey pictorial cloth.Picture to front cover and spine; 6 b/w plates, 288 pages. [pt],[ps].

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    THE TREASURE OF THE SACRED LAKE
    Percy Westerman 
    Published by C Arthur Pearson Ltd, Henrietta Street London in 1924.
    Printed hard covers no dustjacket;  224 printed pages.
    Dimensions: 20 cms tall by 14 cms wide.
    A juvenile tale with diving content. Written in 20 chapters with 8 monochrome plates. Look at the cover design, two divers in hand to hand combat with a huge eel behind them, the head appears on the spine. [pt]
    WRESTED FROM THE DEEP
    Percy Westerman 
    Published by Blackie & Sons Limited, London & Glasgow in 1954.
    Hard covers with dustjacket;  283 printed pages.
    Dimensions: 20 cms tall by 14 cms wide.
    Written in thirty-six chapters for juvenile reading. There are three naive monochrome plates plus the frontice, one of which is a diver. The DJ cover and spine have divers. The cover has three divers in what looks like a wreck, the one in the forground is lying on his front. The spine shows a diver being dressed, the helmet being put on by the attendant. [pt]
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