Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Edition. BOX packed with padding. (See Photos!) First Edition, 2011, with full number line, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 . Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, fine edges. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, light bumping to edges, rubbing to parts of edges, creases at top spine. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California.  ABOUT: In the middle of the twentieth century, surfing and other ocean sports were overwhelmingly confined to warm-water latitudes and summer seasons. The few brave, cold-water surfers relied on soggy woolen layers and warm-up sessions around a beach fire. The concept of a second skin that would allow full freedom of movement while enveloping you in a benign microclimate, even in the middle of the harshest water and air temperatures, was inconceivable. 

By the end of the twentieth century, surfers were riding waves in some of the most remote cold-water corners of the world—places like Scotland, Tasmania, and Canada—in the dead of winter. Jack O'Neill made that possible with the invention of the wetsuit, which started as a bathing suit stuffed with foam sheets and morphed into the high-tech, super-stretch neoprene suits of today.