The Reefs of Taprobane. Underwater Adventures Around Ceylon. With Photographs by Mike Wilson. London; Frederick Muller Ltd., 1957. First UK Edition. Black cloth, title in gilt to spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to jacket, ink stamp from ‘The Colombo Apothecaries, Booksellers‘ on half-title. Overall a nice clean copy.

Signed by Arthur C. Clarke on the half-title page.

A charming, if somewhat dated, time capsule of exploratory diving in the 1950s, written by a science-fiction legend before he became a household name. It is the second installment in Clarke’s “Blue Planet” trilogy, following ‘The Coast of Coral.’