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$22.50
xxdsb69302

Pacific Liners 1927 - 72


EMMONS, FREDERICK

Imperial 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: Leonard Fullerton 1973

KEYWORDS: specials Frederick Emmons New Zealand Pacific nautical ships boats liners history transport

$10.00
xxdsc69334

Tu Galala: Social Change in the Pacific


ROBIE, DAVID (Ed)

Ex library, imperial 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: Bridget Williams Books / Pluto Press 1992

KEYWORDS: specials David Robie Pacific Islands sociology development human rights environment culture politics

$12.50
xxdsl70549

The Pacific Islanders


HOWELLS, WILLIAM

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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1973

KEYWORDS: specials William Howells Pacific Islands Islanders anthropology sociology

$40.00
xxkvg70905

New Pacific Literatures: Culture and Environment in the European Pacific


MCLAREN, JOHN

Ex library, octavo hardcover (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: Garland 1993

KEYWORDS: specials John McLaren European Pacific literature literary criticism culture sociology society history

$42.50
1g76/13

Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands 1855 - 1868


DE VARIGNY, CHARLES & KORN, ALFONS, L. (Trans)

Super octavo, light brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, light brown patterened eps, frontispiece, xxviii + 289pp, illus, VG (light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (fading to spine, light soiling to rear, 1cm closed tear to lower front, light foxing to inside)

PUBLISHER: University Press of Hawaii / Hawaiian Historical Society 1981

KEYWORDS: Charles de Varigny Alfons L Korn French autobiography memoir Hawaii Honolulu Pacific Islands Hawaiian history travel culture politics

$60.00
1a3a/30

Tiute ma Matafaioi a nisi Tane Samoa I le Faiga o Aiga / The Roles and Responsibilities of Some Samoan Men in Reproduction


ANAE, MELANI & FUAMATU, NITE ET AL

Quarto, illus light card covers with brown lettering to spine & front cover, vi + 264pp, illus, VG (creasing to cover edges & corners)

PUBLISHER: Pacific Health Research Centre 2000

KEYWORDS: Melani Anaew Nite Fuamatu Ieti Lima Kirk Mariner Julie Park Tamassailau saalii Sauni Pacific Islanders Samoan sexual health

$45.00
1a3b/26

A History of Fiji: Volume One


DERRICK, R. A.

Vol 1 only (Vol 2 not published), imperial octavo, brown manila heavy card boards with silver lettering to brown canvas spine, illus eps, vii + frontispiece + 250pp + xxviii appendix & index, VG- (some staining & scuffing to boards, moderately heavy browning to page edges, owner's name in ink to fep, front gutter cracked with rusting to staples evident, creasing to fep, last two pages loose, light tanning to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Printing & Stationery Department 1946

KEYWORDS: RA Derrick Pacific Islands Oceania Fijian history

$125.00
1a3b/33

Lawless Days: A Tale of Adventure in Old New Zealand and the South Seas


TRACY, MONA & EVISON, G. HENRY (Illus)

First edition in scarce d/w, octavo, green buckram boards with pink lettering to spine & front board and pink&black illus to spine & front board, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, VG (v. slight bruising to spine extrems, inscription in black ink to fep, some tanning & foxing to eps) in d/w, VG- (8cm x 3cm tear with loss to upper spine/rear repaired with archival tape, archival tape repairs to lower spine extrem, some creasing to upper edges, moderate soiling)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1928

KEYWORDS: first edition Mona Tracy G Henry Levison children's literature adventure New Zealand South Pacific

$50.00
1a3c/43

Sea-Level Changes & Tectonics in the Middle Pacific


Report of the HIPAC Project in 1981 1982 and 1983

SUGIMURA, A (Ed)

Ex library, small quarto, blue light card front cover with black lettering, white spine & white rear, xii + 270pp, illus, VG- (usu library markings, light staining to covers, chaffing to spine)

PUBLISHER: HIPAC Team 1984

KEYWORDS: DSIR science geology geophysics oceanography environment ecology sea level tectonics middle Pacific Rarotonga

$80.00
1d26/25

Atlas To The South Pacific


EXTERNAL INTELLIGENCE BUREAU NEW ZEALAND

first edition, elephant folio, dark blue faux leather boards with cream spine and gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece double-page south pacific map, iii+ 47pp + 20 map plates, VG+ (slight foxing to page edges and prelims)

PUBLISHER: Department of Lands and Survey 1978

KEYWORDS: External Intelligence Bureau New Zealand first edition atlas maps south pacific reference

$19.50
xxkyf74519

The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne 1841 - 1844


SHINEBERG, DOROTHY (Ed)

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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1971

KEYWORDS: specials Dorothy Shineberg Andrew Cheyne European Pacific exploration travel memoirs anthropology

$18.50
xxaro74567

Kanake: The Melanesian Way


TJIBAOU, J. M.

softcover quarto (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: les editions du pacifique 1978

KEYWORDS: specials J M Tjibaou anthropology melanese south pacific culture illustrated pictorial history

$600.00
1d27/40

Ancient Warriors of the North Pacific


Their Haidas, their Laws, Customs and Legends, with some historical account of the Queen Charlotte Islands

HARRISON, CHARLES

First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt mask motif to spine and blind rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, 222pp, illus + folding map, VG (lower rear board corner cut off, heavy fading to spine, lighter fading to boards, slight bruising to spine extrems, ding to front board upper corner, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, some foxing)

PUBLISHER: HF & G Witherby 1925

KEYWORDS: Charles Harrison Pacific history Queen Charlotte Islands anthropology customs first edition

$9.50
xxfaf75958

Captain Cook, The Seamen's Seaman


VILLIERS, ALAN

paperback (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: Penguin 1969

KEYWORDS: specials Alan Villiers biography travel Captain Cook pacific maritime

$10.00
xxfbb76050

Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands


OLIVER, DOUGLAS & JOHNSON, LOIS (Illus)

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: University of Hawaii Press 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Douglas L Oliver Lois Johnson Pacific Islands Islanders archaeology geography antropology Oceania

$165.00
1d32/14

Wild Life in Southern Seas


BECKE, LOUIS / BECKE, GEORGE LEWIS

First edition (colonial edition), ownership signature & date of historian AA Grace, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 369pp + 6pp book adverts, VG- (some rubbing to spine & boards, some bruising to spine extrems, light bruising & fraying to board edges & corners, front gutter cracked & binding sloppy, moderate browning to eps & page edges, annotation in pencil to rear ep)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1897

KEYWORDS: first colonial edition Louis Becke Pacific Australia Polynesia travel wildlife natural history literature

$15.00
xxfeg78309

The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas


SALMOND, ANNE

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: Penguin 2004

KEYWORDS: specials Anne Salmond Captain James Cook Pacific Islands exploration history

$10.00
xxffb78614

An Afternoon in Summer


GIUFFRE, KATHY

Softcover octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Awa Press 2010

KEYWORDS: specials Kathy Giuffre New Zealand Pacific Islands travel literature memoir

$67.50
2g16b/44

A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas


PARKINSON ,SYDNEY

Octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiii + 214pp, illus, VG+ (sl wear to board extrems, v sl soiling to upper page edges) in d/w, VG (light rubbing and soiling to covers, small 1cm open tear to upper spine, light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Caliban Books 1984

KEYWORDS: Sydney Parkinson journal Captain Cook Endeavour Pacific exploration travel history

$14.00
xxfgl79739

Company of Heaven: Early Missionaries in the South Seas


KENT, GRAEME

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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1972

KEYWORDS: specials Graeme Kent Oceania Pacific Islands missionaries religion history

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