LAND TENURE AND RURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
Pp. viii+218, full page text map, appendices, bibliography, index; pictorial printed paper wrappers, lightly soiled and marked; University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1987. Reprinted. More
The Pacific
PLANTATION TO POLITICS:
Studies on Fiji Indians. Pp. [viii]+224(last blank); pictorial printed paper wrappers; University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1991. Reprinted. *A collection of historical papers on Indian life in Fiji, including 'The 1920 Strike', 'Conflict in the Canefields: Fiji in 1921', and 'The Emergence of Muslim Separatism in Fiji'; first printed in 1980. More
MALE CULTS AND SECRET INITIATIONS IN MELANESIA.
Pp. x+140, text maps (one double page), tables, bibliography, index; top fore-corner of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, small stain to top edge of a few leaves; Melbourne University Press,Melbourne, 1967. First edition. More
STEWART'S HAND BOOK OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.
A reliable guide to all the inhabited islands of the Pacific Ocean. For traders, tourists and settlers. With a bibliography of island works. Pp. xliv+536(including many advertisements, some pictorial, a couple printed on coloured paper), 2 full page maps printed on tinted paper, bibliography of works on the Pacific Islands;... More
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AND ADJACENT AREAS.
Volume 4: Supplement to Volumes 1, 2 and 3. With an Introduction by General Douglas MacArthur, United States Army. Part I: The Netherlands and British East Indies and the Philippine Islands. Part II: The Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia. Part... More
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AND ADJACENT AREAS.
Volume 2: The Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [viii] +274, printed double column, folding map at end; tall post 4to; tape backed printed card, slightly soiled; publisher's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; [Pacific Books, Broadbeach Waters... More
THE HISTORY OF THE MELANESIAN MISSION.
Pp. xxviii+372, frontispiece portrait plus 7 plates, folding map, index; med. 8vo; gilt lettered navy cloth, lightly worn; fore and bottom edges uncut; later (but not recent) endpapers?; hinges starting, small inked annotation and bookseller's sticker on verso of upper free endpaper, inked signature on recto of frontispiece, scattered light... More
TO KOKODA AND BEYOND.
The story of the 39th Battalion 1941-1943. Pp. xviii+268(last blank), 12 plates, full page maps and plans, appendices, index; dust wrapper; date stamp (25 Mar 1988) on upper free endpaper; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988. First edition. *The 39th Australian Infantry Battalion was formed in late 1941, and existed as... More
GUINEA GOLD.
A broken run of 478 issues, including the first and last (Volume 1, No. 1, November 19, 1942 and Volume 4, No. 230, June 30, 1946), most of the issues bound (not always in numerical order) in three volumes, plus over 50 loose issues (mostly from Volume 3, 1945). Regular... More
GUINEA GOLD: CALENDAR FOR 1944.
Broadside calendar, headed 'With the Compliments of Guinea Gold' above a photographic view of 'Moresby Harbour in Peace Time'; demy 4to; lightly creased, inscribed in ink above title 'Good Luck Mum & Dad - Love Gordon; mounted, glazed and framed; [Port Moresby],1944. *Guinea Gold was the official newspaper of the... More
THE EXPLORERS OF THE PACIFIC.
Pp. 248, 12 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations and maps (some full page), endpaper maps printed in blue, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1988. First edition. More
THE FRIENDLY ISLANDERS.
A story of Queen Salote and her people. With a Foreword by His Majesty King Taufa'Ahau Tupou IV. Pp. 208(last blank), 16 plates, 4 full page facsimiles, endpaper map, glossary; patterned cloth, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled; small... More
PERPETUAL MOTION.
Travels with Glenn A. Baker. Foreword by Barry Humphries, Pp. xii+220, 8 coloured plates, text photographs; pictorial printed paper wrappers; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993. More
FIJIANS IN TOWN.
Pp. xvi+224, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index; pictorial printed paper wrappers; Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1989. More
THE NEW PACIFIC.
Pp. vi+738, frontispiece map with tissue guard, index; dark green pictorial ribbed cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed and worn, the spine quite faded and scuffed, with a couple of tiny splits at extremities; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; hinges starting at a few points, small surface..... More
INSIDE THE REEF.
A journey through the Fiji islands. Pp. [vi]+114(last blank), numerous text illustrations (several full page), full page map, pictorial endpapers; cr. 4to; pictorial papered boards, edges slightly rubbed; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, name in ink at head of half-title page; Lansdowne..... More
SOUTHERN AND EASTERN POLYNESIA.
Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840. Pp. xx+302, 16 plates, text maps, notes, bibliography, index; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1988. First edition. Pacific Maritime Studies Series, No. 7. *The second volume in a projected quartet on... More
THE PACIFIC.
Ocean of Islands. Pp. [x]+176, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece, 40 black & white plates, text illustrations and maps, title page printed in red & black; cr. 4to; maroon cloth over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, boards a trifle marked; a little light foxing; Seward, Melbourne, n.d.[c..... More
GOLD FLEET FOR CALIFORNIA.
Forty-niners from Australia and New Zealand. Pp. 172, folding endpaper panorama, 16 plates, references, appendices, index; med. 8vo; uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle marked; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Ure Smith, Sydney, 1963. First edition. More
ISLANDS, ISLANDERS AND THE WORLD.
The colonial and post-colonial experience of eastern Fiji. With contributions from Muriel Brookfield. Pp. xviii+324(last blank), text illustrations and graphs, endpaper map, tables, appendix, references, index; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; inked initials on blank preliminary leaf; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988. Cambridge Human Geography series. More
PANGAI:
Village in Tonga. Pp. [iv]+146(last colophon), 2 text figures, tables, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, lettered in black, slightly soiled, the corners bruised, top edge of upper board slightly bumped; bookplate on upper pastedown, the pages slightly browned; The Polynesian Society, Wellington, 1941. First edition. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society Volume 18. More
CHANGING MELANESIA.
Social Economics of Culture Contact. Pp. x+198(last blank), 3 full page maps, appendix (including bibliography), index; lower edges of boards lightly bumped; dust wrapper, browned and brittle, with piece torn from head and tail of backstrip, edges lightly chipped and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Oxford University... More
ISLAND ADMINISTRATION IN THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC.
Pp. viii+158, 4 maps (1 full page, 3 folding); appendices, index; boards a trifle marked; dust wrapper, slightly creased and soiled, edges chipped and split, with a couple of small tears; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, minor production fault (trimming) to bottom edge pp. 15/16, page 16 also... More
SUDSEE.
[Text in German]. Pp. 28(last colophon), frontispiece plus 80 plates, full page map; pictorial brown cloth, lettered and decorated in white, lightly worn; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, endpapers slightly offset, scattered light soiling and foxing; Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1934. *Respected ethnographer's account of travels in the Pacific... More
THE JOURNAL AND LETTERS OF CAPTAIN CHARLES BISHOP ON THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA, IN THE PACIFIC AND IN NEW SOUTH WALES 1794-1799.
Pp. lvi+342, frontispiece, 5 maps (2 folding), bibliography, index; gilt lettered & decorated blue cloth; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle faded; Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, Cambridge, 1967. Second Series, No. CXXXI. *In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship... More