Easter Island (SIGNED). by Vanderbes, Jennifer - June 2003.

New York: The Dial Press, June 2003. First Edition, First Printing 1/4 cloth AS NEW in AS NEW DJ 8vo (6-1/4 x 9-1/4), 304 pp plus Author's Note and Acknowledgments. Brilliant first novel is FINE -- AS NEW in AS NEW pictorial DJ and SIGNED by the author on the title page. First edition with complete number line. (h) Two stories intertwine in this book . One concerns Elsa Pendleton, the first researcher who arrives there in 1913 to study the MOAI -- the gigantic stone face statues that are synonymous with the Island, and who discovers the rongorongo tablets, wooden tablets with unknown writing on them. The other begins 60 years lateras Dr. Greer Farraday, an American botanist goes there to study the angiosperm pollen dating from when the island was forested with palms and also, with a cryptographer, tries to decipher the rongorongo. Ms Vanderbes and "Easter Island" have been hailed and applauded around the world, and the novel was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by both The Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor.