The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1980, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Ordinary, first, Illustrated By: Stephen Laughlin

288 pages, last 2 blank, acknowledgements, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations and line drawings by Stephen Laughlin. Bright blue coloured boards with metallic purple writing on the spine. Photographic dust wrapper, showing a man and woman after a swimming, with pink writing on the front panel and pink and black on the spine. A book about swimming and the benefits that one can gain from swimming not only physical but also emotional and psychological. A little bumping to the top spine edge and shelfwear to the lower book edge. Foxing to the paper edges. Rubbing and chipping, with loss to the dust wrapper corners. The top and bottom dust wrapper edges have become quite rubbed and the top has also suffered some creases. Either side of the spine has become rubbed. Foxing to the verso of the dust wrapper. this is the first USA edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Stephen Laughlin. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sports & Pastimes; ISBN: 0672526220. ISBN/EAN: 9780672526220. Inventory No: 0104505.