The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea.

COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves and Philippe Cousteau.

Item Number: 121871

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1970.

First edition of Cousteau’s compelling narrative dedicated to the life and behavior of the shark. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 124 full-color photographs, index, appendices. Signed by Cousteau on the half-title page, “Best to you! Jacques Cousteau.” Translated from the French by Francis Price. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Books signed by Cousteau are uncommon.

Here, scientific accuracy underlines a great, exotic adventure described in a compelling blend of narrative text and 124 sumptuous full-color photographs. The result is a work that takes the reader into a world of beauty and danger where the members of the Cousteau expedition studied the shark and where they carried out their basic research face to face with the most save animal ever to inhabit the sea.