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$25.00
ak1/14/884

The Best of Albert Wendt's Short Stories


WENDT, ALBERT

SIGNED & INCRIBED BY AUTHOR, octavo softcover (nr.FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Random House New Zealand 1999

KEYWORDS: short stories new zealand pacific literature samoan writters fiction

$15.00
xxegc160169

Racing Through Paradise: A Pacific Passage


BUCKLEY, WILLIAM F. JNR

FIRST EDITION super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Random House 1987

KEYWORDS: Buckley sailing Pacific voyage Azores

$60.00
ak1/13/1159

Log of Logs: Volume Two (A Catalogue of Logs, Journals, Shipboard Diaries, Letters, and All Forms of Voyage Narratives, 1788 to 1993, For Australia and New Zealand, and Surrounding Oceans)


NICHOLSON, IAN

THIS VOLUME ONLY, Imperial octavo green illus. light card covers, 608pp, VG- (light scuffing to covers, moderate to heavy creasing and fading to spine, heavy soiling to edges, light soiling to contents, prev. owner's name in pen to title page, notes page at rear has been filled in (pencil only))

PUBLISHER: Roebuck 1993

KEYWORDS: logs journals diaries letters voyage voyages exploration arrivals departures immigration New Zealand history local regional colonial settler migrant maritime sailing ship ships Australia Australian Pacific Ocean Islands

$15.00
xxfhe161058

We, The TIkopia - Kinship In Primitive Polynesia


FIRTH, RAYMOND

Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Beacon Press 1963

KEYWORDS: anthropology sociology polynesia pasifika history pacific

$40.00
1y71/20

Koreri: Messianic Movements in the Biak-Numfor Culture Area


KAMMA, FREERK CH.

Super octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine (probable library rebind), xii+328+folding map to rear, VG+ (tidy ex-library, occasional v. sl. tanning and soiling within)

PUBLISHER: Martinus Nijhoff 1972

KEYWORDS: koreri messianic movements numfor culture area biak biak-numfor pacific schouten islands west papua new guinea syncretic syncretism religion religious spirituality

$40.00
1y74/39

Life and Leadership in Melanesia


NAROKOBI, BERNARD

Octavo illus. light card covers, vi+137pp, VG+ (light soiling to covers edges and occasionally within, light foxing)

PUBLISHER: Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific / University of Papua New Guinea 1983

KEYWORDS: melanesia melanesian pacific islands islanders leadership culture politics papua new guinea png governance government

$80.00
1y73/11

The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster


FORSTER, JOHANN REINHOLD & HOARE, MICHAEL E. (ed.)

4x VOLUME SET, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt emblem to front and gilt lettering to spine, i. xvii+182pp ; ii. viii+187 ; iii. viii+183pp ; iv. viii+276pp; VG+ (occasional light foxing to edges) in d/w VG (light to moderate scuffing, creasing; minor closed tears and chips, v. sl. fading to spines)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1982

KEYWORDS: resolution maritime exploration history johann reinhold forster journal journals memoir hakluyt society captain james cook pacific ocean

$40.00
1y73/50

As Luck Would Have It: the Reminiscences of an Australian Sailor


COLLINS, VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN

Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii+191pp, illus., VG (moderate scuffing and v. sl. fading to boards, light tanning within, prev. owner's details in pen to fep.) in d/w VG- (prev. owner's extensive tape repairsalong top and bottom edges, price-clipped, moderate scuffing, soiling to reverse)

PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1965

KEYWORDS: australia australian maritime autobiography memoir naval royal college grand fleet military history mediterranean world war two second ww2 philippines pacific

$140.00
1y77/47

A Grammar of Lenakel


LYNCH, JOHN

Quarto light card covers, vi+135+16pp adverts at rear, VG+ (light scuffing and creasing to covers, minor little gouges to bottom edge (unobtrusive))

PUBLISHER: Australian National University 1978

KEYWORDS: pacific linguistics series b no. 55 lenakel language reference grammar tanna island new hebrides austronesian islands

$30.00
xxkgw162223

Fast Talking PI


MARSH, SELINA TUSITALA

CD at rear. Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: poetry pacific islander pi pasifika poems poet

$9.00
xxkhj162245

The Whale People


HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Totem Books 1982

KEYWORDS: pacific literature fantasy

$20.00
xxkuj162447

Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific


CHIU, MELISSA et al

large quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2004

KEYWORDS: art modern comtemporary New Zealand Pacific colour color

$100.00
1y81/16

Asia In The Pacific Islands - Replacing The West


CROCOMBE, RON

Super Octavo softcover, illus light card covers, black & red lettering to spine and card covers, xviii + 623pp., VG (light splitting to cover corners, slight creasing to front cover, v. slight creasing to hinges, v. slight soiling to boards, v. light scuffing to page edges. slight creasing to interior page corners.)

PUBLISHER: IPS Publications, University Of The South Pacific

KEYWORDS: politics economics development pacific island pasifika history

$40.00
1y82/28

There is no place like home Migration and Cultural Identity of the Sonsorolese, Micronesia


WALDA-MANDEL, STEPHANIE

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine and covers, vii + 332pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Universitatsverlag Winter Heidelberg 2004

KEYWORDS: Stephanie Walda-Mandel pacific anthropology micronesia sonsorolese

$60.00
1y84/1

By the Numbers


GILROY, M.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, light card covers, black lettering to cover, illust title page, 95 pp, illust, VG- ( heavy chipping to edges, moderate foxing to covers & front & rear eps, slight foxing to pages, moderate tanning to covers & pages, 1 cm open tear top rear cover + 3.5 cm by 1.5 cm open tear lower corner of back cover, 8 mm + 1 cm closed tear top front cover )

PUBLISHER: Oswald - Sealy Ltd 1944

KEYWORDS: poetry poem poems poet humour world war 2 ww2 two Pacific United States America

$15.00
xxpof163534

Tia


CAMBELL, ALISTAIR

FIRST EDITION. Octavo Softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Reed Books 1993

KEYWORDS: literature pacific pasifika modern first edition

$77.50
1y91/48

Art and Artists of Oceania


MEAD, SIDNEY M. & KERNOT, BERNIE

Imperial octavo, orange light card covers, white printed lettering to front cover, white & black printed lettering to spine, illust eps, 308 pp, illust, VG+ ( plastic covering lightly coming off at spine, moderate creasing to spine, slight fading to spine, v slight chaffing to covers, fomer owners name written in pen on fep, slight tanning & foxing to page edges )

PUBLISHER: Ethnographic Arts Publications 1983

KEYWORDS: art history Oceania Pacific Islands artists indigenous maps drawings carving weaving tattoo photos black & white

$25.00
xxrmc164200

Lee Boo of Belau: A Prince in London


PEACOCK, DANIEL J.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1987

KEYWORDS: Daniel Peacock pacific island history colonisation britain british crown biography

$50.00
1y95/13

Possessing The Pacific - Land, Settlers, And Indigenous People From Australia To Alaska


BANNER, STUART

Super Octavo hardcover, brown buckram boards with black spine, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 388, NEAR FINE, in d/w VG (heavy curling and scuffing to edges, mild fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2007

KEYWORDS: sociology anthropology colonialism history pacific indigenous

$65.00
ak4/14/2582

Fri Alert


CARON, ELSA (ed.) [THE CREW OF THE FRI]

Oblong octavo black illus. light card covers, xiii+138pp, illus., VG- (light scuffing and creasing to covers, minor insect damage to front inside cover, light foxing within)

PUBLISHER: Caveman Press 1974

KEYWORDS: nuclear test testing pacific polynesia fri yacht french bomb mururoa atoll maritime new zealand history tahiti

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