Safety At Sea. You Can't Drown! You Can't Chill!
New York: International Life Suit Corporation, 1918. Very Good. Item #48191
New York: International Life Suit Corporation, n.d., ca. 1918. Narrow octavo (22.5cm); photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; sixteen panels printed on [8]pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Some dust-soil and foxing, contemporary rubberstamp of the Boston agent W.H. Eaves to upper panel; Very Good and sound.
Promotional pamphlet for this ingenious floating rubber coverall, the Ever-Warm Safety-Suit. The brochure features a team of men and women testing the suit on a December day in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Sandy Hook. The group can be seen dancing, frolicking, taking great big glugs of beer.
Brochure accompanied by a bifolium pamphlet listing some of the more esteemed patrons of the Safety-Suit, including members of the Vanderbilt family and Sarah Bernhardt, not long after her leg was amputated, on tour in the United States.
One example separately catalogued in OCLC as of May, 2026, at the Mariners Museum in Virginia.
Price: $250.00