Lewis Priday (7 results)

Soft Copy. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Illustrated cover with moderate soiling, heavy foxing and some rubbing. Spine: open wear/ splits to head & foot. Edges: old browning and foxing. Fep with small stamp: Kippenburger Research Library. Single name to Contents page top margin. Few only faint small old smudges to a few pages margins. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG albeit the internal staples are rusty. 144p. Ex-Library.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. A worn copy. Creasing to covers. Heavy foxing to covers. Heavy rubbing, tears and abrasions to spine. Chips to inner blank margin of "Foreword" leaf where it has pulled away from staples. Moderate foxing internally. ; 144 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 235 x 171mm. Illustrated. Military history, World War Two, South Pacific. Contents: Japan's Farthest South; Fiji; Tongatabu; New Caledonia; Norfolk Island; Samoa Defence Group; Bora-Bora; Aitutaki; Penrhyn; Efate; Spiritu Santo; New Georgia; The Solomons Campaign; Fijians in Action; Forward Bases. [Reference: Bagnall P978].

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Moderate foxing to covers. Rubbing to covers. Rubbing to spine, with abrasions to front join.; 144 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 235 x 173mm. Illustrated. Military history, World War Two, South Pacific. Contents: Japan's Farthest South; Fiji; Tongatabu; New Caledonia; Norfolk Island; Samoa Defence Group; Bora-Bora; Aitutaki; Penrhyn; Efate; Spiritu Santo; New Georgia; The Solomons Campaign; Fijians in Action; Forward Bases. [Reference: Bagnall P978].

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Some rubbing to spine. Some abrasions at head of spine. ; 144 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 236 x 172mm. Illustrated. Military history, World War Two, South Pacific. Contents: Japan's Farthest South; Fiji; Tongatabu; New Caledonia; Norfolk Island; Samoa Defence Group; Bora-Bora; Aitutaki; Penrhyn; Efate; Spiritu Santo; New Georgia; The Solomons Campaign; Fijians in Action; Forward Bases. [Reference: Bagnall P978].

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 144pp, map, bw ills. Or blue/white pictorial card. Covers and prelims foxed, the middle 1/3 (approx) of pp93/94 cut/torn out (otherwise complete), chipped at top & bottom of spine, 2 holes pierced in front cover extending to start of Chapter 1. Has its problems but very scarce. Coconut Square (in Noumea) was the centre of the Allies Polynesian and Melanesian island defences in WWII. The book includes chapters on Japan's Farthest South, Fiji, Tongatabu, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Samoa, Bora Bora, Aitutaki, Penrhyn, Efate, Espiritu Santo, Solomons Campaign, Fijians in Action and Forward Bases. The missing section of a page is from the Efate chapter. Size: Small 4to.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The War From Coconut Square : The Story of the Defence of the Island Bases of the South Pacific by H. E. Lewis Priday. Publisher: A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington, 1945. Fair softback, some marks, rubbing and creasing to covers and page corners, damage to spine ends, no inscriptions, tanning and some chipping to pages, last page is chipped at edges and has some closed tears. 144 pages, illustrated. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A couple of 12mm tears to joints at tail end of spine, with archival paper tape repair. Moderate foxing to covers. Previous owner's signature at corner of front cover. ; 144 pages. Illustrated card covers. Page dimensions: 237 x 170mm. Illustrated. Military history, World War Two, South Pacific. Contents: Japan's Farthest South; Fiji; Tongatabu; New Caledonia; Norfolk Island; Samoa Defence Group; Bora-Bora; Aitutaki; Penrhyn; Efate; Spiritu Santo; New Georgia; The Solomons Campaign; Fijians in Action; Forward Bases. [Reference: Bagnall P978].