FIJI AND ITS POSSIBILITIES.
Illustrated from photographs. Pp. xiv+316(last blank), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 48 plates, title page printed in red & black, index; med. 8vo; dark green ribbed cloth, upper board decorated in blind, rebacked, with the original gilt lettered spine laid on, the cloth slightly rubbed, edges (especially the corners) lightly worn; t.e.g., others uncut; later endpapers; upper hinge starting, small piece torn from fore-edge pages 15/16, the plates faintly offset, a couple of small edge splits, scattered light soiling; Doubleday, Page, New York, 1907. First U.S. edition. The Geographical Library series. *Ex library copy, with inked markings on title page and at head of page 21. Published in England earlier that year as From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands. Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953) travelled extensively in the Pacific and lived for a time in Papua before settling in Australia. She wrote over 30 novels and travel books, mostly with a Pacific setting, plus numerous short stories, which were published in a variety of literary periodicals. Item #099609
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