The Sea Around Us

The book went through many printings within months. The first printing must lack any printing number on the copyright page; later Oxford printings state the printing number above the copyright notice. Book-club copies typically measure about 8.375 inches with a rough-cut front edge and no cloth backing to the page block. The second-state dust jacket adds John Kieran and Waldo L. Schmitt review blurbs to the front flap. The revised 1961 edition is a 'first thus,' not the true first.