This Island's Mine

London, England: The Adventurers Club, 1959. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/Good. First-person autobiographical account of the author's adventures as the acting District Commissioner on the island of Ysabel in the Solomon Islands while it was a British colony during the early 20th century thru WWII. In 240 pages, with photographic frontispiece & black & white photos… Read more about this item

Constable, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1959. First Edition. 240 pages. Green jacket over blue cloth with silver decoration to spine. Contains black and white photographic frontispiece, with other plates throughout. Pages are lightly tanned, but text remains clear. Mild marking to some pages throughout; text is not obscured. Plates are bright. Binding is firm. Inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards… Read more about this item

Constable, 1959. Book. Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. An almost very good copy, mild page tanning, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, very mild shelfwear to cover, binding firm; unclipped wrapper has rubbing, foxing and marking, edges are worn with some short tears, two areas of loss to spine (one small piece laid in)..

The Adventurers Club, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 239 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear… Read more about this item

London: Constable. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. British Colonial Administrative Service. " 'Would you like to go to the Solomon Islands?' "I don't know,' I said, surprised by his question. 'I don't know where they are or anything about them.' ". Dustwrap torn and chipped with some loss to edges, NOT… Read more about this item

Used; Good. 2-E-28 The Adventurers Club 1959 Hardcover. Text is clean and unmarked. Jacket has moderate wear with sunning to spine. Book Condition; Good Jacket Condition; Good . 1959. Book Club Edition. BOOK CLUB EDITION..

London: The Adventurer's Club. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Tight clean book with single name to ffep. in dj with short tear to top of spine. 11 illustrations .

London: The Adventurers Club, 1959 vi,240pp. 11 plates, dw. The author was an acting District Commissioner on the Island of Ysabel in the Solomons during the 1930's. From the library of Philip Snow with his bookplate on the front endpaper. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the… Read more about this item

London, The Adventurers Club, [1959], . . original cloth, dj (spine bit faded), fine in vg dj. . 8vo [22 x 15 cm]; [viii], 240 pp, frontis, illustrations from photos. . The author describes his years on the Solomon Islands where he was a district commissioner. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

London: The Adventurers Club, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 240 pages, plus black-and-white phptographs; very gently read, if at all, hardly a trace of shelf wear, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked; DJ spine sun faded, gently bumped, but no chips or tears, now in new mylar protector. … Read more about this item

London: The Adventurers Club, 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 240 pages, plus black-and-white phptographs; very gently read, just a hint of shelf wear, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked; DJ spine sun faded, numerous tiny chips/tears. See also our listing Hector Holthouse's extremely… Read more about this item