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South Seas Magic by Ronald Rose - 1959

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South Seas Magic by Ronald Rose - 1959

South Seas Magic

by Ronald Rose

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Robert Hale & Company, London, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Firm blue covers, sunned spine with dulled gilt lettering, sound binding, clean pages. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 60718071057..
  • Bookseller Bailgate Books Ltd GB (GB)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good Condition
  • Jacket Condition No Dust Jacket
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Robert Hale & Company
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1959
  • Keywords BZDB4 NOISBN Australasia and the Pacific; South Seas Magic Ronald Rose

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South Seas Magic

by ROSE, RONALD

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Robert Hale 1959. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
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South Seas Magic

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London: Robert Hale, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London, Robert Hale, 1959. Octavo; cloth a little bumped (with slight associated creasing to the intial leaves); spine a little lightly sunned; flyleaf slightly marked; a very good copy with the very good dustwrapper a little rubbed, creased, chipped and torn with slight loss. '... an investigation into magic and psychical beliefs in modern Samoa...'.
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South Seas Magic.

by Ronald Rose:

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London: Robert Hale, 1959. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 192pp. 19 plates. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (some light rubbing).
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South Seas Magic

South Seas Magic

by ROSE, Ronald

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London: Robert Hale, 1959 Illstd with b&w photos. A name in front, light foxing in the fore edges. Dust jacket is unclipped and bright, in a clear film protective sleeve.
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South Seas magic

by Rose, Ronald

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Robert Hale. 1959. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. small tears to edges of dust jacket, price clipped from inside dust jacket, foxing (age spots) to page edges and some pages. 192 p., illustrations, index. . This is the story of an investigation into magic and psychical beliefs in modern Samoa. Together with his wife as co-experimenter, and accompanied by their two children, the author lived on the tiny island of Manomo for six months. The family lived largely as the Samoans do, in a thatched house by the side of the coral lagoon. They fished with the Samoans, were accepted into the native society, and took part in feasts and ceremonies. In addition to giving Samoan accounts of ghosts, magic, sorcery, "spirit sickness' and psychical healing, and describing the experimental investigation of telepathy and clairvoyance, the book describes the daily life of Samoans, their social organization, morality and sex life, and their prospects for self-government. It describes the extraordinary influence of… Read More
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