Samoa: A Hundred Years Ago, and Long Before. Together With Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-Three Other Islands in the Pacific
Author:
TURNER, GEORGE & TYLOR, E B (Preface)
Title:
Samoa: A Hundred Years Ago, and Long Before. Together With Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-Three Other Islands in the Pacific
Publisher:
Macmillan & Co 1884
Description:
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & board edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 395pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, VG- (moderate cracking to rear hinge of spine, moderate soiling/tanning to spine with 1x sm label also, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy soiling to rear board, minor soiling to front board, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, spine sl cocked, single library plate to front pastedown, heavy scuffing to front gutter, light soiling to prelims & sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to rear gutter)
Keywords:
Pacific islands Samoa history historical travel writing literature exploration islands history culture first editions