ATTENBOROUGH, David & BUTFIELD, Colin. Ocean. Earth’s Last Wilderness (Signed by both authors on the title page)

London: John Murray, 2025. First edition. 8vo. pp. 384. Publisher’s grey cloth, spine lettered in white, in original pictorial dust jacket (with “Signed by the Author” roundel). A fine, bright copy.

A major new work by Sir David Attenborough, written in collaboration with Colin Butfield, exploring the fragility and resilience of the world’s oceans. Structured in three parts — from the life of a single blue whale to a sweeping survey of coral reefs, the deep ocean, kelp forests, mangroves and the Southern Ocean — the volume combines narrative authority with urgent environmental advocacy.

Published by John Murray in 2025, this first edition is increasingly sought after in signed state. Copies bearing both signatures are considerably less common than single-signed examples and represent an important association for collectors of natural history, environmental writing and Attenborough first editions.

A fine signed first edition of one of the most significant environmental publications of the decade.

[WR Att]