Pacific from Lawrence Jones

USA: Human Rights Watch, 1990. 148pp. Orange card. Some fading to spine and adjacent. Adresses abuses by the Philippines government and the New People's Army including summary executions, mutilation of corpses, torture and other vio;ations by both sides.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957. HEAVY. xvi, 715pp, index, bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Alittle foxing to jacket, offset toning to endpapers. This volume relates mainly to operations in Malaya in the first 10 weeks of the war against Japan. Also describes the experiences of small garrisons overrun in New Britain, Ambon and Dutch Timor. Final section describes… Ler mais sobre este item

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1968. xiii, 533pp, index, appendices, num bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket with very light edge wear. Australia's air war against Japan in the latter stages of WWII.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

Brisbane: CopyRight Publishing, 2008. xxxii, 442pp, bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Pictorial glossy boards. As new. The advent of commercial aviation in Samoa.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

London: Collins & Harvill Press, 1977. 223pp, index, bibliography, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Brown cloth in jacket. Foxing to top edge. The story of Omai, taken to London by Furneaux and returned to Tahiti by James Cook.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Port Vila: Vanuatu Cultural Centre, 2005. 303pp, bibliography, glossary, bw ills, appendices. Still pictorial card in jacket. Near new. Oral traditions of Vanuatu presented by province. English language edition.. First English Language Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Melbourne: Macmillan, 1981. xv, 254pp, index, appendices, bw ills, tipped in maps. Green cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket, foxing to top edge. The diaries of Archbishop strong during his tenure as Archbishop in New Guinea, including the time of Japanese invasion during WWII. Gives a vivid picture of the Japanese invasion of the north coast, martyrdom… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. xxxvi, 452pp, bw plates, text-figures, appendix by Dr L H Dudley Buxton, folding sketch map at rear. Blue cloth, no jacket. Prev owner bookplate inside front cover, light foxing to page edges, bottom corners slightly rounded. The book gives an all-round account of a primitive people in the far west of Papua. The fifteenth in a… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney: Pacific Publications., 1973. 239pp, index, appendices, bw ills, endpaper maps. White cloth in jacket. Jacket spine a bit faded, jacket rubbed with a little toning. Minor foxing to endpapers, page edges evenly toned, prev owner name opposite half-title and business stamp on half-title page. . Third Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Brisbane: Pictorial Press Australia, 2013. 245pp, index, notes, appendix, bw ills, maps. Pictorial card. As new. The true story of the Samoan-American girl (Emma Forsyth) who defied convention and founded a commercial empire in 19th century New Guinea.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993. lvii, 409pp, index, bibliography, maps. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise as new. Contents include: Ritualized Homosexual Behavior in the Male Cults of Melanesia 1862-1983; Homosexuality, Male Power, and Political Organization in North Vanuatu; The Dialectics of Sex in Marind-anim Culture; The Numa Cult Recalled; Sexual Transactions in Sambia Culture; Male Couples in… Ler mais sobre este item

Melbourne: F W Cheshire, 1963. 252pp, illustrated with b/w photos, two maps in the text, end-paper maps: Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Brown cloth with gilt vignette, in jacket. Light even toning to page edges with some foxing to fore-edge, small dark mark to bottom edge. Jacket worn with creased, rubbing, short tears and small chips. The book covers… Ler mais sobre este item

Sydney: Pacific Publications., 1942. 414pp, b/w ills, maps (folding), general index, index of place names. Green cloth backed boards. Covers evenly toned, top edge evenly toned-a very nice copy indeed.. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 2000. 238pp, index, endnotes, col ills, map. Pictorial card. Light foxing to prelims.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

Canberra: Australian National University, 1981. xiii, 306pp, bibliography, notes, tables, map. Pictorial card. Generally light edge wear to covers with a silverfish hole in rear cover along with some surface silverfishing, minor foxing, gift note on half-title page. The history of a century of the sugar industry in Fiji examining the circumstances of its origins, the development of plantation agriculture… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Viking, 1987. xi, 316pp, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Or boards in jacket. Slight fading to spine, minor wear to top of boards. First contact between Europeans and the Highlanders of Papua New Guinea in the 1930s with more than 100 photographs from the archive of Michael Leahy.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.… Ler mais sobre este item

Cape Town: C. Struik, 1966. HEAVY. Volume I, Part I only. 841pp. Red cloth. Rear hinge cracked, foxing/minor soiling to page edges, foxing to endpapers. Includes reports on the idigenous inhabitants of Southern Africa, the Canadas, Newfoundland, New South Wales, Van Diemens Land as well as ome information from New Zealand and the South Sea Islands.. Facsimile Reprint. Hard… Ler mais sobre este item

Cape Town: C. Struik, 1966. HEAVY. Volume I, Part II only. 212pp. Red cloth. Slight fading to spine. Official report on the observations of the 1836 Report on indigenous inhabitants of Southern Africa, the Canadas, Newfoundland, New South Wales, Van Diemens Land as well as ome information from New Zealand and the South Sea Islands. It suggests the measures… Ler mais sobre este item

Rutland, Vt: Charles E Tuttle Co, 1971. 296pp, frontis portrait. Maroon cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket, very slight fading to spine. Lawrence Judd was the grandson of early missionaries and his father was Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Supreme Court. He became Governor of Hawaii from 1929-1934 and in 1953 Governor of American Samoa.. First Edition.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. 255pp, bw ills, maps. Blue cloth in jacket. Jacket slightly rubbed. Moderate foxing throughout. The author travelled to India, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Celebes, the Moluccas and New Zealand learning about the arts, ceremonies and taboos of 'primitive poeples' along the way. . First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.