Search Results: South Pacific from Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore

New York: The MacMillan Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. DJ with light wear, chipping and one open tear ; Real headhunters and cannibals enliven this account of an expedition intended to record the lives and cultures of the Solomon Islands; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 416 pages .

Berlin: Ullstein. Very Good. 1930. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Spine a bit sunned and slightly cocked. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; In German; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 239 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. White DJ a bit tanned and with light rubbing to extremities ; An autobiographical account of two years spent in the Central Highlands of New Guinea; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 267 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. DJ browned and worn with small open tear upper right rear. ; An autobiographical account of two years spent in the Central Highlands of New Guinea ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 267 pages .

Somerset: Oxford Illustrated Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0902280988 . 8vo; 256 pages .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good. 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards a bit darkened and with some wear to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; A long boat trip to many notable points south. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380 pages .

London: Rupert Hart-Davis. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. DJ with very light shelfwear; Searching Polynesia for truly unspoiled lands, with surprising contrasts and conclusions ; Color Photographs; 8vo; 171 pages .

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Very Good+. 1955. Hardcover. Boards with very light rubbing to extremities; A study of Melanesia, with black and white and color photos. ; B&W and Color Photographs; 8vo; 248 pages .

New York: Four Winds Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Of course Jack London is best known for his writings but he also was a sailor of note. This volume examines his journey to the South Seas, a trip of two years undertaken with his wife and a skeleton crew. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 167 pages .

London: John Murray. Very Good. 1845. Second Edition. Hardcover. Moderate wear to boards. Front free endpaper with former owner's name and detached but present. Very light waterstaining to rear pastedown. ; 1/2 calf boards and olive green endpapers. Gilt spine decoration and gilt spine lettering. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 551 pages .

Chicago: Rand Mcnally & Company. Very Good. 1951. Hardcover. Boards with light wear to extremities. ; The classic tale of a sea voyage undertaken to advance the theory that the South Sea Islands were populated from Peru. Nice early edition ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages .

London: Macdonald. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. DJ with light chipping and DJ spine ends missing. ; On the island of New Guinea there existed tribal peoples unaware of the existence of the "white man. " A native of New Zealand, Author Ruhen is certainly qualified to tell their story. ; 8vo; 255 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1913. Hardcover. Brown buckram boards with gilt lettering and minor rubbing to extremities. Numerous b&w illustrations from photographs and a photographure frontispiece. Large map in front pocket; 8vo; 454 pages .

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1929. Hardcover. Gilt spine lettering faded. Light wear to spine ends; Maps in endpapers show the trek of author Humphrey, who meandered through the region and recorded his observations. Green decorative boards with gilt lettering and pictorial design; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 306 pages .

New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1977. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ tattered and taped. ; Author Lord, best known for books about the Titanic, here describes operations behind Japanese lines during World War II; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 272 pages .

London: George Routledge and Sons Limited. Very Good+. 1926. Hardcover. Slight wear to extremites. Light foxing; A collection of folk tales and songs collected in 1909-10 in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, with examples of the native language ; 8vo; 394 pages .

Garden City: Garden City. Very Good+. 1921. Later Printing. Hardcover. Spine a bit sunned; Author O'Brien travels to the South Seas and describes visits to Tahiti and Papeete, among others. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 534 pages .

Auckland, NZ: The Brett Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. DJ browned and with some chipping. DJ with small hole and minor loss to DJ top spine. Boards with light bumping to two corners. Endpapers tanned and with former owner's writing to front free endpaper. ; From the preface: "This collection of interesting facts about New Zealand, 'The Dear Old Maori Land', also the legendary accounts and descriptions of Maori Life and Customs, and the mysterious migration of the intrepid Polynesian Vikings across the unchartered seas of the Pacific Ocean, have been gathered from various sources and put together with the earnest desire of making these 'Fortunate Isles' more widely and better known." ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages .

Papeete, Tahiti: of Commerce. Very Good. 1964. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Lightly bumped on top spine. ; Red flexible boards. One of the main sponsors was Pan Am, advertising their brand on front and back boards. Including an unpaginated 8 page section of color photos. A travel guide with many ads, a small glossary, facts about the island. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208, [8] pages .

Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd.. Very Good-. 1941. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing and minor soiling to extremities. Former owner's neat notes on half title page. Front hinge weakening ; An island off the coast of Australia, New Caledonia is an area rarely written about. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 230 pages .