Papua & New Guinea from

Sydney: Cowrie Books, 2002. 32pp, bw ills, map. Pictorial card. Very slight edge wear to cover. Tells a Trobriand Islands (PNG) highlighting the strict oblidation, or duty, in the matrilinear Trobriand culture for a brother to make gardens for his sister.. Signed & Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Port Moresby: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies in association with Niugini Press., 1979. 56pp, bw ills, references. Pictorial card (red, black & white). A little light rubbing. Content includes Indigenous Anthropology in PNG; Some Aesthetic Concepts in Melpa; 3 plays; Eleven Canoe Prows from the Trobriand Islands; a historical poem from the Trobriands and drawings by Kambau Namaleu Lamang..… Read more about this item

Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1970. ix, 214pp, index, bibliography, appendices. Black cloth in jacket. Slight fading to spine, gift note on front free endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Australian Military History Publications., 2001. xvi, 288pp, index, appendices, nominal roll, glossary, maps, bw ills. Pictorial glossy boards. As new. The 61st Australian Infntry Battalion was sent to Milne Bay in mid-1942 and within weeks found itself in the front line against the Japanese. The inexperiencedmilitia battalion soon learned on the job, as they slowed and stopped the first… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Book Generation, 1992. xix, 172pp, index, bibliography, appendices, map, bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Or tan boards in jacket. Protective plastic cover taped to reverse of jacket-this has been attached too tightly causing rippling of the jacket. The story of the search for oil in PNG from an insider's perspective, culminating in the dicovery at Kutubu in 1986..… Read more about this item

Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, 2002. xii, 241pp, bibliogoraphy, bw ills. Or pictorial card. Slight of edge wear to cover, minor crease to edge of front cover. Memoirs of service by a sapper with 2/7 Field Coy, RAE, 9th Div, AIF in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo during WWII.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Australian Military History Publications., 2000. HEAVY. Pictorial card. x, 496pp, illustrated throughout witih b/w photos, maps, 13 appendices: Australian Infantry; Australian Gunners and support units; RAAF Units; American forces; Japanese forces: Civilians, small boats, ships, shipping; General Clowes' Report; Japanese orders and reports; Webb Royal Commission into atrocities; Breaking the Japanese code; Malaria; the prose of war; addendum,… Read more about this item

Honiara, Solomon Islands.: H.C.C. Ltd., 1982. 30pp, map, bw ills. Cream & brown pictorial card. Very slight edge wear to cover. Solomon Islands art and artifacts including carved wood, turtleshell and clamshell; woven baskets, tapa cloth; fishing tools and more. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1974. 53pp, index, col ills, 45rpm record in front pocket. . Pictorial cloth boards. Light foxing to endpapers. Traditional songs of PNG in both their original language and English translation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. Square 8vo.

Christchurch, NZ: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., 1952. 86pp, bw ills. White, green & black pictorial card. Very light even toning to cover otherwise near new. For children ages 10-12. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: The Australian Board of Missions, 1959. 63pp, bw ills. Pictorial card. Small bookseller label inside front cover, old price placked out on front blank. Fictional account of a Papuan boy from the village of Gisemu in Daga country, PNG and the coming of the missionaries for young people.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Murray, Jennifer.. 8vo.… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. xii, 264pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, map. Cloth backed boards in jacket. Near new. Centres on the ways the experience of work in New Guinea changed the Roman Catholic mission and the rhetorical strategies missioanries used to reconcile their innovations in practice with their ecclesiatical ideals. Traces the development of the Sepik region as… Read more about this item

Sydney: Random House Australia, 1990. 239pp, bw ills. Paperback. Some foxing to page edges. Thirty years in Papua New Guinea amongst crocodiles, cannibals and coffee.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1934. x, 285pp + 7pp publisher ads, glossary, bw ills, endpaper maps. Orange cloth titled in black, in jacket. Jacket with short tear and small chip at head of spine and bottom of rear panel, several short tears at top of front flap fold), small scuff to front panel; but bright and fresh in appearance. Some… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Pictorial Press Australia, 2013. 245pp, index, notes, appendix, bw ills, maps. Pictorial card. As new. The true story of the Samoan-American girl (Emma Forsyth) who defied convention and founded a commercial empire in 19th century New Guinea.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Melbourne: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1946. xxii, 425pp, index, appendix, 53 bw ills, 6 maps, pictorial endpapers. Or green cloth, no jacket. Page edges evenly toned, minor wear at top/bottom of spine, occasional minor foxing, prev owner name/date opposite half-title. The story of the Coast Watchers role in guarding Australia from Japanese attack in WWII. New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides.. First… Read more about this item

Brisbane: Southseas Press, 1995. 250pp, index, bibliography. Pictorial card covers. As new. In 1933 young gold seekers Dan and Mick Leahy chanced upon the Wahgi Valley in highland PNG discovering a tribal people undisturbed for thousands of years. Dan Leahy went on to establish a home, farming in the remote Mt Hagen region and marrying in tribal custom. Dan's story… Read more about this item

Palm Cove, Qld.: Alan Caudell & Associates., 2010. HEAVY. 448pp, index, bw & col ills. Or blue cloth titled in silver, in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacket, near new. Biography of Queensland born, Papua New Guinea businessman and philanthropist Sir Brian Bell.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2005. xvi, 272pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, appendices, bw ills, maps. Pictorial card. Lightest of edge wear to cover, very light foxing to page edges. A powerful visual history of the men who fought in the 9th Australian Division seeing service at Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. Small 4to.

Melbourne: Lansdown Press, 1969. Foreword by D O Hay. xiii, 266pp + index, portrait frontis and b/w photos, bibliography, index, folding map in pocket at front. Red boards in jacket. Edge wear to jacket with tear at chip at top of spine and associated creases. Spine faded, corners bumped. Foxing to page edges and prelims.The story of patrol officer 'Jack-a-Hides',… Read more about this item