The Wild White Man of Badu. by IDRIESS, ION L: A Story of the Coral Sea.

Angus & Robertson, Australia, No date. Frontier Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Size: 8vo Octavo (8 to 9 inches). Item Type: Book. Binding loosening, spine and titling faded. . Slight foxing front/rear pages. Edges slightly foxed and browned.. Minor marks and wear to book..

Angus and Robertson 1950. FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1950. 1st edition. hard cover. G. Good condition with shelf wear and edge wear to covers, spine slightly canted, name ticks against some books by the author listed on flyleaf, signed by the author on title page, light soiling./No Jacket. Signed by author. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps, endpaper maps. 22 cm.

In good condition - has some markings on spine due to wear - no dust jacket - has previous owner's name and address in front cover - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.So, here at last is the story of Wongai, Wild White Man of Badu. It is the best I can do with the scanty scraps of material. But to delay longer would mean it would never be printed. Not that that would matter one iota, of course. However, the book may prove of passing interest to those interested in "flashes" from our Australian past. And to those interested in a tiny but colourful race of islanders, a race whose descendants today have reached the full climax of their ambition, to become "civilized" enough to even don uniforms in a "white man's war". But Time passes, like Wongai, like the islanders' culture of a thousand years, like history, like - everything.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson. Fair in Fair dust jacket. (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library labels and markings. Dust-jacket taped into plastic jacket. 40mm chip to front panel of dust-jacket. Adhesive tape stains to boards. Map on rear pastedown endpaper partly obscured by library label, a photocopy of the unobscured map has been tipped in. ; 232 pages + frontispiece + 18 illustrations on 6 plate leaves + maps on endpapers. Green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. .

Sydney 7 London: Angus and Robertson, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good +/good. True story of a convict who escaped from Norfolk Island and after a voyage during which he killed and ate his companions, became chief of Badu, in Torres Strait. The natives believed him to be the reincarnation of Wongai, friend of the gods. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket has some chips and edgewear. The rear flap has been reinforced with tape along the fold. A few tears have also been tape-repaired. Contains maps and photographs. Previous owner's name covered by white-out. Coverboards have light edgewear. Size: 8vo (8" to 9")