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2026 RBMS Virtual Showcase

June 23-26, 2026

Virtual Book Fair Exclusive

Safety At Sea. You Can't Drown! You Can't Chill!

International Life Suit Corporation

$250
Offered by Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
  • Condition: Very Good
  • Publisher: International Life Suit Corporation
  • Location: New York
  • Date: 1918
  • Seller SKU: 48191

New York: International Life Suit Corporation, 1918. Very Good. 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.

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Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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Washington, District of Columbia 20003
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