Crocombe L (7 results)

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 12mo. A good copy with some foxing to eps and edges of text block, slight roll to spine. Pos on ffep. Pink illus dw very tatty with creasing and large tears to spine-cover edges, back cover top, losses to spine and front cover tails. Book.

Paperback edition. XII, 170 PP with 8 maps and 48 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. Irian Jaya: reluctant colony, by Peter Savage. Papua New Guinea: Aftermath of colonialism, by Stephen P. Pokawin. Solomon Islands: Uniting the diversity, by Francis Saemala. Vanuatu: Overcoming Pandemonium, by Grace Molissa. New Caledonia: Confrontation to colonial rule, by Yann Céléné Uregei. Fiji: The Politics of a Plural Society, by Ahmed Ali.

1st Ed. XII, 170 PP with 8 maps and 48 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Light foxing. Very good. 22 x 15. Irian Jaya: reluctant colony, by Peter Savage. Papua New Guinea: Aftermath of colonialism, by Stephen P. Pokawin. Solomon Islands: Uniting the diversity, by Francis Saemala. Vanuatu: Overcoming Pandemonium, by Grace Molissa. New Caledonia: Confrontation to colonial rule, by Yann Céléné Uregei. Fiji: The Politics of a Plural Society, by Ahmed Ali.

1st Ed. Volume II of Politics in the Pacific Islands. XII, 262 PP with b/w photos & maps, bibliography & index. Pict. card cover. Very good. 21 x 14.7. Contains chapters by various authors and includes 2 chapters on Wallis & Futuna, and on French Polynesia.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Peddie, Tom; Tresilian, S.; Gale, W.J.; Prater, Ernest; Nicholson, W.C.; Sutcliffe, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Policing the Great White North - A photo-illustrated account of the manifold perils and hardships that are the daily portion of the gallant handful of men who represent law and order in the Vast Canadian Arctic; Pathetic fate of two missing WWI Sheffield soldiers revealed - William Thompson and George Walter Howard; Bill's Bear-Cub - An American trapper adopts a bear cub and his partner foretells disaster; Three Months on an Island Inferno - J.K. Wilson explains his 'holiday' on White Island, near Tauranga, New Zealand - with photos; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part I - What happened after H.P. Musson, a transplanted London paper-pusher, lost his job as a hired hand in Western Canada and began looking for his own homestead; Trapping Wild Animals in Northern Siam - The ingenious methods by which the jungle folk trap fierce whild beasts, with great photos; Cycling Round the World - Part III of III of Kai Thorenfeldt's amazing 20,000 mile journey which took over two years - with map and nice photos; Forgotten Fortunes - Frances Dickie describes the remarkable circumstances in which two of the most amazing 'finds' in the history of European art have lately come to light in France - with photo of Mrs. M.L. Westmoreland, who discovered a valuable Goya in a Paris second-hand shop; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part II - Seeking the prehistoric Komodo dragon on a remote Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) island; A Terrible Journey - Joseph Metcalf fell into an underground conduit conveying water from a dam to Port Elizabeth - forty-five miles away!; The Greatest of All Thrills - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article on the new sport of parachuting from aircraft; "Heir Number Six" - A Winnipeg real estate agent goes to the North-West territory in search of an obscure half-breed regarding a dispute over land ownership. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.