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NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS' RESIDENCE AMONG THE NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS; OR, A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE

NARRATIVE OF A FOUR MONTHS' RESIDENCE AMONG THE NATIVES OF A VALLEY OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS; OR, A PEEP AT POLYNESIAN LIFE

by MELVILLE, Herman

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Used - Text very clean, free from foxing; rubbing and light edgewear to the binding. Very Good to Near Fine
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First Edition
Published
1846
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Hardcover
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London: John Murray, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Text very clean, free from foxing; rubbing and light edgewear to the binding. Very Good to Near Fine. Contemporary half calf leather with matching corners and marbled boards and endpapers, gilt-ruled spine with two matching gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels; xviii, 285 pages, no terminal ads with the half-title page present.… Read more about this item
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THE CRUISE OF THE KAWA: WANDERINGS IN THE SOUTH SEAS

THE CRUISE OF THE KAWA: WANDERINGS IN THE SOUTH SEAS

by TRAPROCK, Walter

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Used - Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
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First Edition
Published
(1921)
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Hardcover
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1921). First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. A humorous and fictitious travel account, a parody of the usual Polynesian idyll. Illustrated with photographs.
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A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS UNDERTAKEN BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONVEYING THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE TO THE WEST INDIES IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOUNTY COMMANDED BY LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BLIGH INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE SAID SHIP AND THE SUBSEQUENT VOYAGE OF PART OF THE CREW IN THE SHIP'S BOAT FROM TOFAO, ONE OF THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS, TO TIMOR, A DUTCH SETTLEMENT IN THE EAST INDIES

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Adelaide, South Australia: Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn glassine and a Fine slipcase. Geoffrey Ingleton. Tall folio (9-5/8" x 14") bound in full tan homespun linen with the covers printed in terra cotta with nautical silhouettes by Geoffrey Ingleton; 176 pages. Printed at the Griffin Press; introduction by Alan Villiers. One of 2000 copies,… Read more about this item
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