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A son of the sun
by London, Jack, illustrated by A. O. Fischer and C. W. Ashley
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1912. Hardcover. [viii] 333p., frontispiece and 3 illustrations inserted, very slight split starting at front hinge, otherwise a very good first edition, first prinbting in blue cloth boards with gray lettering and vignette of sailing ship and clouds with white sails and orange trim, very mild shelf wear. Sisson page 64, BAL 11937.
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£142.43
Handbook of Asian American/Pacific Islander Mental Health; Volume 1
by Morishima, James K.; Sue, Stanley; Teng, Li Neal; Zane, Nolan W.S.; Cram, Jeffrey R
Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; National Institute of Mental Health, 1980. Paperback. x, 135p., paperback, 8x10.25 inches. Light toning to spine and rear wrap edge, pen mark on front cover, else very good. Second printing.
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£24.42
![La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627), Translated and edited by Celsus Kelly. With ethnological introduction, appendix, anmd other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I [&] Volume II [pair, complete set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/425/772/1462772425.0.b.jpg)
La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627), Translated and edited by Celsus Kelly. With ethnological introduction, appendix, anmd other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I [&] Volume II [pair, complete set]
by Munilla, Fray Martin de; Celsus Kelly, translator & editor
Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by CUP, 1966. Hardcover. xvii, 270, xv, 273-446p., plates on inserted coated stock, maps and lengthy folded lists of encountered islands as called for, hardbound in the Hakluyt design, fine bright copies in their plain printed dust jackets. Djs are in general good shape, both have some tiny punctures and toned spine panels (v.1 has a quarter-inch chip at the head), each volume with crimping to top and tail rims else entirely sound, clean and unmarked. An...
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£32.56
Sex Life in the South Seas
by B. Schidloff, Ph.D
Melbourne Anthropological Research Association, 1953-01-01. Paperback. Fair. . 0x0x0. FAIR. Black wraps, approx. 6.25'' x 5'', 410pp., most of spine title and spine edge chipped/rubbed away, chips to spine edges, edges and corners of covers, light fading and small chips to covers, small creases to top corner of first few pages, rub wear, a small gray stain and a small light brown stain to side page edges, inner pages are clean and in very readable condition..<p> Once Read Books,...
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£16.20
Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories
by Gonzalez, N.V.M
Manila: The Benipayo Press, 1954. Paperback. 209p., paperback, 5.25x7.25 inches. Wraps lightly worn, half-title page toned, else very good.
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£13.84
Memories of Hanahauoli: The First Fifty Years
by Palmer, Louisa F
Honolulu: n.p., 1968. Hardcover. 74p., [38] pages illustrations, orange boards, 8.75x11.25 inches. List of Hanahauoli School Advisory Board members and Board of Directors inlaid. Light handling wear to boards, previous ownership signature inside front cover, else very good.
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£44.76
Where the Spirits Dwell: an odyssey in the New Guinea jungle
by Schneebaum, Tobias
New York: Grove Press, 1988. Hardcover. 209p. + 16p. photos, map, glossary of Asmat and Indonesian words, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj.
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£9.77
Philippine Nationalism: External Challenge and Filipino Response, 1565-1946
by Mahajani, Usha
St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1971. Hardcover. xii, 530p., hardcover in dust jacket, 5.75x8.75 inches. Sunning to dust jacket, small pinhole in half title page, else very good.
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£40.70
Philippine Quarterly of Culture & Society: Volume 22, Number 3, September 1994
Cebu City: San Carlos Publications, 1994. Paperback. 165-242p., paperback, 7x10.25 inches. Small tear in spine, else very good. Articles on land rights before Spanish colonization, Filipino domestic workers, archaeology, and Feminist readings of contemporary Philippine literature.
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£9.77
Polynesia: A History of the South Sea Islands, Including New Zealand: with Narrative of the Introduction of Christianity, &c.
by RUSSELL, Right Rev. M
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. Hardcover. Good. 486 p. 19 cm. Frontispiece, title vignette, and fold-out map of the South Pacific. Burgundy leather with blank and gilt impressing, all edges gilt. Some spots and rubbing to boards, corners worn. Ink inscription for Douglas Brown of Harbor Grace on front pastedown. Front free endpaper missing. Next leaf has ink signature (E. S. Pinsent) and pencil sketches. Some spots and thumbing to first pages. Rear free endpaper has large chip missing from bottom...
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£61.04
Mindanao Journal: Volume 1, Number 4
Marawi City: University Research Center, Mindanao State University, Marawi City, 1975. Paperback. 134p., paperback, 6x9 inches. Previous ownership stamp and pen mark on contents page, wraps shelfworn, else very good. Illustrated with maps and diagrams. Articles on fish, water, boatbuilding, and Muslim Filipinos.
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£13.84
Gender, Poverty, and Sustainable Development: Towards a holistic framework of understanding and action
by Wee, Vivienne [and] Noeleen Heyzer
Singapore: Engender Centre for Environment, Gender, and Development Pte Ltd, 1995. Paperback. xvi, 168p., wraps, 5.75 x 8.25 inches, wraps worn, soiled, and creased, else very good condition. Particular focus on Asia and the Pacific.
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£9.77
Isles of adventure; from Java to New Caledonia but principally Papua. With illustrations
by Grimshaw, Beatrice
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Hardcover. viii, 293p., photographic illustrations as called for, on inserted plates, first edition openweave cloth boards paneled in blind and titled in silverblue foil lettering, boards lightly edgeworn, bookseller's label on free front endpaper, occasional spots of light foxing within. else very good condition. No dust jacket.
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£16.28
Crisis in the Philippines: The Marcos Era and Beyond
by Bresnan, John, ed
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Paperback. xiv, 284p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good.
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£9.77
The Filipinos in America
by Winter, Frank H
Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1988. Hardcover. 71p., pictorial boards, 7.25x9.25 inches. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs. Boards lightly shelfworn, else very good.
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£16.28
Decorative Art of New Guinea - Incised Designs. 52 Plates. Frontispiece in Photogravure and 2 Text-figures
by Lewis, Albert Buell. Berthold Laufer, editor
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1925. Pamphlet. 2p. plus b&w plates (52, one per page including frontis), staple-fastened plain printed tan wraps, plates as called for, a fine copy: absolutely sound, clean and unmarked, really as-new. Anthropology Design series no. 4. FYI, the plates that are not "photogravure" are perfectly well-reproduced; these are usually rubbings from incised work.
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£20.35
The Kissing
by Bobis, Merlinda
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2001. Paperback. 183p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. First edition. Bobis is a Filipina Australian author and professor who teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong.
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£9.77
Report of the Conference on the Human Environment in the South Pacific, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 8-11 March 1982
by South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Noumea, New Caledonia: South Pacific Commission, 1982. 71p., staplebound wraps, 8.25x11.5 inches, very good.
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£16.28
Newsletter. Vol. 4 no. 1 (Winter 1974)
by Friends of Micronesia
Berkeley: Friends of Micronesia, 1974. Newsletter. 29p., 8.5x11 inches, on newsprint; front cover heavily foxed at edges, edgeworn; interior pages more evenly toned. Laid in is a flyer introducing the group, and another handbill with a map of Micronesia, captioned "'We have the trust, the United States has the territory.' -Ataji Balos." Opposes development and military use of Micronesian islands; this issue largely devoted to the Micronesian economy.
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£17.91
O mea ua iloaina: I oti faafuase'i o tamaiti laiti
n.p.: Hawaii SIDS Information and Counseling Program, [198-?]. Pamphlet. Four-page brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Samoan-language overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, adapted from Hawaiian Department of Health materials by Dr. Lulumafuie Fiatoa.
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£12.21
Evaluation of Tototo-Kilemba and PRRM-SAM at midpoint: An assessment of the Nonformal Education Project..
by Clark, Dr. Noreen, Mr. O. Gakuru & Dr. Pedro Acierto
New York: World Education, 1979. 81p., 8.5x11 inches, tables, very good in stapled wraps.
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£16.28
![Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team: HIV/AIDS from an/other angle; [#1] Spring 199](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/533/931/1555931533.0.b.jpg)
Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team: HIV/AIDS from an/other angle; [#1] Spring 199
by Alumit, Noel, editor
Los Angeles: APAIT, 1994. Newsletter. Four panel newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, information, services, resources, news briefs, events, very good newsletter.
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£12.21
Stories of Adventure
by London, Jack
Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, undated, copyright deleted. Pamphlet. 64p., the usual small pamphlet format, 5x3.5 inches, white wraps matte-side out and semi-laminated side verso (H-J must have bought an odd lot), cover silverfished and irregularly toned, text stock evenly toned. Cover bears a rubber-stamped ownership name and address, a fair to good copy. Little Blue Book 1168. Five short stories: A Goboto Night; Dutch Courage; To Repel Boarders; An Adventure in the Upper Sea; Bald-Face.
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£16.28
Island Peoples of the Western Pacific - Micronesia and Melanesia
by Krieger, Herbert W
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1943. Pamphlet. iv, 104p., illustrated with a fullpage line map and numerous b&w portrait and activity photographs. Softbound in 9x6 inch staple-fastened plain printed wraps, paperstock alkaline, pix reasonably well-reproduced, maps were poor to begin with, overall condition very good: pace a little edgewear and mild bumps to corner-tips, the item is sound, clean and unmarked. Smithsonian Institution War Background studies number sixteen. (`Publication 3737).
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£12.21
A vagabond in Fiji
by Foster, Harry L
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1927. Hardcover. viii, 309p., original green cloth boards with titling in gilt, bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, softly bent corners, else in very good condition.
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£12.21
