Keesing Roger Peter Corris (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback book (219 pages)illustrated with decorated endpapers and vintage black and white photographs. Dust jacket shows moderate rubbing/scuffing. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-Door-TS-Down-L) rareviewbooks.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xv, 219pp, index, notes, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Slight creasing to flap otherwie near new. The 1927 killing of William Bell, a colonial government representative on Malaita in the Solomon Islands sparked a destruction more wanton and complete than could have been foreseen. The subsequent random killing of the Kwaio, raping of their women, destruction of their shrines and desecration of their sacred objects resulted in a severe dislocation in the Kwaio way of life from which they never recovered. Size: 8vo.

Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 219pp, notes, index. Corners little bumped but still very good hardback in dustjacket. Reconstruction of the events leading up to the murder of William Bell, colonial representative in Malaita, by the Kwaio warrior leader Basiana. It draws on the testimony of Kwaio eyewitnesses and presents a side of a colonial contfrontation that has hitherto been obscured from view.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 219pp. b/w plates. Very Good copy. 1st ed. The 1927 punitive expedition following the massacre of the colonial government representative & his party of native police in the Solomons. This caused a severe dislocation to the Kwaio way of life.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. In this book, anthropologist Roger M. Keesing, who has spent sixteen years among the Kwaio, and historian Peter Corris reconstruct, for the first tim from both sides, the events leading up to the October 1927 murder of William Bell, government representative on Malaita in the Solomon Islands. **The jacket has a small tear at the top ot he spine**.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1980. Octavo, xvi, 219 pages with 2 maps and 16 pages of plates (totalling 29 images from photographs) plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; a near-fine copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Malaita, Solomon Islands, 1927: William Bell, colonial government representative, murdered, followed by the revenge on the 'Malaitamen'; illustrated; inscribed by Peter Corris in 1987. Fine in dustwrapper. inscribed by author. book.