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$22.50
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Cook Islands: A Guide


DOUGLAS, NORMAN and NGAIRE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pacific Profiles 1990

KEYWORDS: pacific Cook Islands travel guides literature

$30.00
xxsig215275

Seekers and Travellers: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast


WYATT, GARY

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: D & M Publishers 2012

KEYWORDS: contemporary art pacific northwest

$100.00
ak5/9/2

Pangai: Village in Tonga


BEAGLEHOLE, ERNEST and PEARL

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, iv + 145pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to top board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, pgs 1 & 2 potentially missing, light creasing to prelims) in d/w, G+ (heavy loss & tape repairs to top edges, moderate creasing & chipping to lower edges, moderate tanning & staining to spine, light general chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Polynesian Society 1941

KEYWORDS: first editions pacific islands Tonga villages Pangai anthropology culture customs

$40.00
ak5/10/22

The Discovery of the Pacific Islands


SHARP, ANDREW

Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + (3) + 259pp, illus, VG (moderate to heavy soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & ep edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate to heavy fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, sl soiling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969

KEYWORDS: pacific islands exploration history Polynesia Melanesia Micronesia ethnology anthropology geography

$150.00
ak5/12/42

Fiji Native Plants, with Their Medicinal and Other Uses


PARHAM, Mrs H B RICHENDA

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red stiff card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, xii + 160pp, VG- (moderate creasing to spine & covers, light to moderate tanning to spine & cover edges, minor soiling, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to front & rear gutters, light foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: The Polynesian Society 1943

KEYWORDS: first edition pacific islands native plants Fiji Fijian nature natural medicine botany alternative

$20.00
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The Last War of Empires: Japan and the Pacific War


BARBER, LAURIE & HENSHALL, KEN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 1999

KEYWORDS: military war history Pacific Japan Japanese

$100.00
ak5/14/37

France and England in the New Hebrides: The Anglo-French Condominium


JACOMB, EDWARD

FOLDING MAP AT Pg208, Octavo, maroon buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 234pp + catalogue to rear, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, minor foxing sporadically throughout, occasional cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: George Robetson & Company 1914

KEYWORDS: pacific islands New Hebrides Vanuatu England English France French history geopolitics

$22.50
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Trading Posts or Penal Colonies


DALLAS, K M

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Fullers Bookshop 1969

KEYWORDS: Captain James Cook voyages Pacific New Holland Australia Australian history penal colonies

$17.50
xxhrc216015

Samoa in Colour


SIERS, JAMES

LACKS D/W, quarto 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1974

KEYWORDS: travel literature illustrated Samoa Pacific islands

$25.00
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The Pacific Islands Year Book 1944 - Fifth (Wartime) Edition


ROBSON, R W (Compiler & Ed)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pacific Pubications 1944

KEYWORDS: pacific island islands yearbooks year books past years pasifika

$30.00
xxhvb216103

Deuba: A Study of a Fijian Village


GEDDES, W R

Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Polynesian Society Inc 1945

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Fiji fijian islands villages anthropology Deuba

$25.00
xxcbb216207

To Live Among the Stars: Christian Origins in Oceania


GARRETT, JOHN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: WCC Publications 1982

KEYWORDS: pacific islands pacifika Christianity oceania religion religious history

$40.00
ak5/21/14

Englishing My Samoan: A Collection of Speeches and Letters


EFI, TUIATUA TUPUA TAMASESE

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO BISHOP MURU WALTERS, octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, xi + 123pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate fading to spine, light to moderate creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of the South Pacific 1995

KEYWORDS: speeches letters signed Samoa Samoan pacific

$30.00
xxcla216395

Lalava: Pacific People and the University of Auckland


N/A

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Auckland 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand pacific island communities University of Auckland

$22.50
xxcxg216573

Colour, Culture & Conflict: A Study of Pluralism in Fiji


MAMAK, ALEXANDER

Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pergamon Press 1978

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Fiji pluralism social history culture race ethnicity

$50.00
ak5/3a/4

At the Gateway of the Day Fiji Methodist Centenary Souvenir 1835-1935


N/A

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, blank spine- white lettering to front cover, frontispiece, 78pp, illus, ephemera loosely enclosed, G+ (heavy creasing & scuffing/soiling to covers, heavy peeling to flaps, complete crack to rear gutter, moderate foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals, heavy creasing & chipping/loss with loss to base of prelims, heavy rusting & separation to staples at front gutter)

PUBLISHER: Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia 1935

KEYWORDS: pasifika pacific islands Fiji religion religious history methodist church methodism history centenary centennial

$160.00
2g40/5

Pacific Game Fishing


FARRINGTON Jr, S KIP & HUNT, LYNN BOGUE (Illus)

FIRST EDITION, dated & warmly inscribed to Hans Christian Adamson (author & castaway survivor), and signed by author, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt fish illus to front board, top page edges stained blue, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 290pp, illus/photos, VG (sl rubbing to spine & extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's sm name label to front & rear eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminalsoccasional patches of minor foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/loss to edges & spine, moderate tanning/foxing/soiling, moderate pink staining to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Coward-McCann, Inc 1942

KEYWORDS: signed first editions pacific fishing hobbies angling game S Kip Farrington Jr

$15.00
xxdue216953

The Cruise of the Snark: A Pacific Voyage


LONDON, JACK

Super 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: KPI Limited 1986

KEYWORDS: jack london pacific sailing memoir

$75.00
2g42/45

Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific


JIAO, TIANLONG (Ed)

Quarto, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, 219pp, illus/photos, VG+ (boards sl warped & soiled, light soiling & foxing to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing & peeling to top edges)

PUBLISHER: Bishop Museum Press 2007

KEYWORDS: archeology archaeology maritime ancient history artefacts China Pacific

$40.00
2g47/38

Pacific Auckland: Photographs by Evotia Tamua


TAMUA, EVOTIA

Oblong quarto, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Little Island Press 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand pacific island culture pasifika photography art photos Auckland Evotia Tamua

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