PAPAUN GOLD The Story of the Early Gold Seekers by Lett, Lewis - 1943

F.W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG-/G in DJ (some warping, pages browned, DJ tattered) 8vo with DJ 107+[1]ppIllustrated by with b/w photos.

London: Collins, 1949. Hardcover. In quite good condition./No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full ebony-embossed puce-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 317. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... One reviewer observed: "In 1904, Murray was appointed as a judge in what was still British New Guinea. He was appointed Acting Administrator in 1907 and Lieutenant-Governor in 1908, a position he held until his death in 1940. When Murray first went to Papua there were 64 white residents. There were 90,000 square miles of territory, much of it unexplored jungle land, with many native tribes of whom some were cannibals and head-hunters. He set himself to understand the native mind, and found that an appeal to vanity was often more effective than punishment. Murray eventually wiped out cannibalism and head-hunting, largely by ridiculing tribes that followed those practices, and praising… Read More

Melbourne University Press, 1942. Unmarked copy in full cloth binding. ix, 204pp. Photos. Fold-out map.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Melbourne University Press in Association with Oxford University Press, Melbourne and London, 1944. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 295 g.; XIV, prefaced by author, prefaced to the second edition, list of illustrations and index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece of Mr. Justice Murray in 1912. The text is illustrated with 17 black and white photographs and one foldout map at the rear of the book showing the territory of Papua in 1938. Gray coloured boards with green titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing to the book corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. Foxing and browning to the text block edges. Light browning and offset tanning to the endpapers and like age training to the internal text. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Plain text dustwrapper with white and green background and white and green titles to the front panel and white titles to… Read More

F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1944. 108 pp, b&w plates, previous owner's name on front end-paper, pages browned, else very good copy in blue, cloth boards.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Good. 1944. Second Edition. Soft Cover. 1947 reprint.208p, index, pullout map, b/w photos. Crease to bottom corner of brown cloth covered cover which has a few frayed threads bottom edge. Owner's name on ffep. Old b/w photos; B&W Photographs; 8vo .

Australia: Cheshire, 1944. slight bug damage to endpapers, slight wear to covers and cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1945. xiv, 207pp, index, folding map, bw ills. Or tan limp cloth. Some fading/rubbing to spine, light edge wear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne.: Melbourne University Press.. Second edition.. 1944.. Folding map, portrait frontispiece of Mr Justice Murray, black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 207pp, index, endpapers, edges and margins little browned, cover slightly marked with browned spine, a sound secondhand copy. Australia's role in Papua New Guinea. .

Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1945. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A good clean copy. The jacket has light edge wear.