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$19.50
xxcye223716

Western Pacific Islands


COATES, AUSTIN

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: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970

KEYWORDS: western pacific islands history Austin Coates

$20.00
xxcyf223722

D-Day New Guinea


BRADLEY, PHILLIP

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: Allen & Unwin 2019

KEYWORDS: Pacific war military history Lae aviation naval aerial maritime warfare ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$17.50
xxaqz223795

Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific


RANDALL, WILL

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: Scribner 2003

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Solomon Islands south pacific Will Randall

$35.00
xxaua223803

Polynesia's Sacred Isle: The Ring of Fire, Volume III


DODD, EDWARD

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Dodd, Mead & Company 1976

KEYWORDS: Polynesia ring of fire geology Raiatea Pacific science Apetahia travel history

$45.00
3i2/6

Nguna Voices: Text and Culture from the Central Vanuatu


FACEY, ELLEN E

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xii + 351pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light fading to spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Calgary Press 1988

KEYWORDS: signed Ellen E Facey Vanuatu ethnology folklore lore Nguna culture Pacific islands

$350.00
3i2/33

A Directory for the Navigation of the South Pacific Ocean; with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands etc, from the Strait of Magalhaens to Panama, and Those of New Zealand, Australia etc, its Winds, Currents and Passages (Third Edition)


FINDLAY, ALEXANDER G

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to boards, folding map/frontispiece, viii + 966pp, illus/folding maps, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy scuffing & cracking/bruising to spine, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate foxing & soiling to prelims inc. folding map frontis, occasional moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light to moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Published for Richard Holmes Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, EC 1871, With Additions to 1874

KEYWORDS: south pacific ocean directories geology landscapes islands history historical

$75.00
3j5/32

Healing Practices in the South Pacific


PARSONS, CLAIRE D (Ed)

Super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps at eps, xii + 250pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to front board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. ownership inscriptions in ink with some correction fluid to ffep & half title page) in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing to spine, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, other minor chafing also)

PUBLISHER: The Institute for Polynesian Studies 1985

KEYWORDS: oceania medicine Polynesia south pacific alternative healing folk medicines

$245.00
3j4/2

A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origins, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants (Sixth Thousand)


WILLIAMS, JOHN & BAXTER, G (Wood Engravings)

SIXTH THOUSAND, octavo, half leatherbound brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine with rsaised bands also, aeg, frontispiece, illus title page, xviii + 590pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork, minor fading & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling to gilt page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: J Snow 1837

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history natural history missions missionaries south sea islands pacific anthropology

$15.00
xxdcf223960

A Doctor in Paradise


LAMBERT, S M

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: J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1942

KEYWORDS: medical history medicine pacific islands S M Lambert

$50.00
xxsae224232

We, The Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific


LEWIS, DAVID

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G); 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 University Press of Hawaii 1972

KEYWORDS: pacific orientation wayfinding landfinding navigators

$35.00
xxpjb224438

The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Volume III


MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT

THIS VOL ONLY 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: Castle Books 2001

KEYWORDS: history United States naval operations second 2nd world war two 2 ww2 wwii educational navy military history Pacific conflict

$14.00
xxcaf224473

Tales of the Tikongs


HAU'OFA, EPELI

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: University of Hawai'i Press 1994

KEYWORDS: fiction Polynesian Pacific Hawai'i Hawaiian author

$35.00
xxsap224563

The Church in Post-Sixties New Zealand; Decline, Growth and Change


WARD, KEVIN

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: Archer Press 2013

KEYWORDS: church sixties New Zealand Kevin Ward pacific christianity

$22.50
xxsjj224792

A History of the Pacific Islands


FISCHER, STEVEN ROGER

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: Palgrave 2002

KEYWORDS: Steven Roger Fischer Pacific history geneology science polynesia

$40.00
3j1/14

Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West


THOMAS, NICHOLAS (ed) & COLE, ANNA (ed) & DOUGLAS, BRONWEN (ed)

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps,pale yellow text to wrapper & spine, 252pp, VG+ (v slight fading to spine & wrapper, v slight soiling to wrapper, previous bookseller's label to inside wrapper, v slight tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2005

KEYWORDS: tattoo body modification art culture pacific western pasifika west

$120.00
3k2/25

Fred Gratten, Talatonu: Islands and Atolls: A Biography


GRATTEN, MIKE and HELEN & GLUYAS, JEANNIE and RICHARD

SIGNED BY SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS, quarto, illus glossy light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, [4] + xii + 164pp, illus/photos, folding family tree to rear, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Michael and Helen Gratten & Jeannie and Richard Gluyas 2009

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Samoa Fred Gratten biography memoir biographies family history research genealogy

$40.00
3k2/26

Pacific Tales


BECKE, LOUIS

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & black lettering to spine & front board, black illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 323pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine extrems, sl bruising & rubbing to board extrems, minor discolouration/soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1924

KEYWORDS: travel exploration history Pacific islands Louis Becke

$10.00
xxrgc225375

New Zealand's Coasts


MONTEATH, COLIN

Super octavo softcover (VG), inscriptions in pen to tp; 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 Ling 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand landscape photography coast coastline ocean sea Pacific

$40.00
3L2/31

Men from Under the Sky: The Arrival of Westeners


BROWN, STANLEY; BURR, RAYMOND (forew.)

FIRST EDITION. Sm octavo, orange cl boards, spine lettered in white & blue; illus. eps, frontis., illus., plates; 327 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; price clipped).

PUBLISHER: Charles R. Tuttle Company 1973

KEYWORDS: Westeners social history colonial Fiji Fijians European American pacific islands

$15.00
xxral226017

A Pacific Parliament: A Pacific Idea - An Economic and Political Community for the South Pacific


MOORE, MIKE

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: Asia Pacific Books 1982

KEYWORDS: Asia Pacific politics political economics Oceania

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