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Another Image: Papua New Guinea
by Bailey, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First edition. Mathews Miller Dunbar/Bailey Co-Production. London. 1975. Quarto. 144pp. 130 plates in monochrome and colour, indexed to rear. Marbled endpapers. A very good copy in the original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. The original dust wrapper is sunned and faded to spine, more so to the head, with short closed tear and crease to upper edge. A nice copy.
"The Highlands of New Guinea escaped the Victorian explorers which left this country with a last frontier... To take my camera and record an image that, that other corrupter of innocence, tourisme, has not yet destroyed. To just see people that have not been seen to death. To feel, no matter how small, a little of what the Burtons felt in abundance...
Maybe one day in the distant future a child might come across this book in a pile of second-hand junk, and ask, "Did people dress like that when there were still tigers in the world?" and he might add "how lucky they were in the 20th century to have had such wonders"."
"The Highlands of New Guinea escaped the Victorian explorers which left this country with a last frontier... To take my camera and record an image that, that other corrupter of innocence, tourisme, has not yet destroyed. To just see people that have not been seen to death. To feel, no matter how small, a little of what the Burtons felt in abundance...
Maybe one day in the distant future a child might come across this book in a pile of second-hand junk, and ask, "Did people dress like that when there were still tigers in the world?" and he might add "how lucky they were in the 20th century to have had such wonders"."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Paul Haynes Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio723
- Title
- Another Image: Papua New Guinea
- Author
- Bailey, David
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mathews Miller Dunbar/Bailey Co-Production
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Photography, Anthropology, Oceania
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration; Art; Australasia;
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About the Seller
Paul Haynes Rare Books
Biblio member since 2016
Hay on Wye, Herefordshire
About Paul Haynes Rare Books
Paul Haynes has been an antiquarian bookseller since 1978. Based in Hay on Wye, he travels worldwide to buy and sell rare and old books. A member of the ABA, ILAB and PBFA. Paul Haynes Rare Books offers both antiquarian and scarce books in all subjects, with something of a bias towards the owner's passion for Travel and Exploration.
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