CLASSIC DIVE BOOKS
Author - Percy F. Westerman These books are not listed for sale. |
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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. http://westermanyarns.blogspot.com/2009/02/percy-westerman-book-list.html 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)
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HAUNTED HARBOUR
Percy Westerman
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IN DEFIANCE OF THE BAN
Percy Westerman
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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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