New Guinea Headhunt

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Hardcover. Second impression, viii, 441p., illustrated with sketched vignettes and fullpage paintings reproduced in b&w, hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch black cloth boards lettered pale yellow; lacks any jacket. Front endsheets are a doublespread line map, rear endsheets are blank except for an owner's bookplate (an interesting image belonging to one Maurice Chayet). Foxed… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. First edition, first printing. The author's second book, preceded by Headhunting in the Solomon Islands (1942). Both works are based on the long letters Mytinger (1897-1980) wrote to friends and family during her travels in the Solomon Islands and Papua-New Guinea with childhood friend, fellow painter… Read more about this item

The adventures of two American women in 1926 who traveled to New Guinea to paint portraits of the Papuans and to record of a society that was becoming extinct. They stayed for four years and learned how natives lived and Caroline painted the headhunters and ceremonies, etc. . Mytinger, (1897-1980) an artist who studied at the Art Students League… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 441 pages. Black and white illustrations. Rebound in sturdy library buckram with usual markings. Average wear. A sound copy..

macmillan new york 1947. second printing 441pp ills.[b/w] VG (black cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,sunned spine,map to feps,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed) lacks d/w

NEW GUINEA HEADHUNT, Macmillan, 1946, first edition, a vg+ to near fine copy. Illustrated. INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page to famous magazine illustrator John La Gatta. Earlier in her career La Gatta utilized Ms. Mytinger as a model years before this book was written. A copy of a book rarely found SIGNED or INSCRIBED.

New York, U.S.A.: The Macmillan Company , 1947. Author and artist in 1926 she traveled to the Solomon Islands and Papua-New Guinea with her friend. CONDITION Black bds, map to front ep, pp x 441 with wood block illus and photo plates. Copy is mostly bright with odd mark and slight foxing to ends. Has paper tape reinforcing to hinges… Read more about this item

Macmillan, New York, 1946 First Printing.. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, hardcover, in black boards. Light sun to spine, hinges broken, book label removed from endpaper else VG. Map endpapers showing territory of New Guinea. 441 pp. Story of the between-the-wars travel in Papua-New Guinea by two women artists. B/w photos of paintings and many drawings.

N.Y. Macmillan., 1946.. Or.bds. Dustjacket. 441pp. (sl foxing) b/w plates & ills. Very good copy. 1st US ed. An account of an expedition made by two young women to the Solomon Islands and New Britain in the Territory of New Guinea, to paint portraits of the headhunters who inhabit this region.

The Macmillan Company, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.