EDWARDS, Phil with Bob Ottum.
You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago: The Stoked Side of Surfing or How to Hang Ten Through Life and Stay Happy.
"Waves can't be the god of the sport ... It has to be getting out in it that counts": First Edition of You Should Have Been Here An Hour Ago; Inscribed by Phil Edwards
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.
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Item Number: RRB-145184
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First edition of this classic profile of 'the surfer's surfer.' Octavo, original sky blue cloth, illustrated with full-page photographs. Lengthily signed by the author opposite the copyright page: "You should have been here .... Phil Edwards." Very good in a very good dust jacket, with dampstaining to the book. Jacket photograph by Lynn Pelham-Rapho-Guillumette. Photograph of Bob Ottum by Jerry Cooke.
In 'You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago,' co-authors Phil Edwards and Bob Ottum bring readers the image of what it's like to surf in waters alive with sparkle in the quickest-stoking sport ever. During the composition of this book, Sports Illustrated Associate Editor, Bob Ottum, swallowed some 23.3 gallons of salt water on his way to becoming the Phil Edwards of surfing-writers.
You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago: The Stoked Side of Surfing or How to Hang Ten Through Life and Stay Happy.
$2,800.00
In Stock