Tom Blake

A first edition copy of Hawaiian Surfboard in the Tapa-Cloth binding.

• Tom Blake (American).
• Introduction by Duke P. Kahanamoku.
• Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific Press, 1935.
• Octavo.
• 95 pages.
• With 32 photographic plates, plus other illustrations in text.
• Bound in the original tapa-cloth, issue without surfers on upper covers.

First edition of the first title devoted to surfing. Blake was an early 20th century surfing and health food pioneer who conceived and developed the hollow surf board. Inscribed on front pastedown to Dan (Close) and his family Donna Garrett & Christine, "Tom Blake 1902-1993," also inscribed on one of the plates. The first definitive book on surfing by the sport's greatest innovator and the first person to surf Malibu Point along with Sam Reid in September of 1926. "The most important publication in the surfing canon."