Papua & New Guinea from Lawrence Jones

Melbourne: Macmillan, 1981. xv, 254pp, index, appendices, bw ills, tipped in maps. Green cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket, foxing to top edge. The diaries of Archbishop strong during his tenure as Archbishop in New Guinea, including the time of Japanese invasion during WWII. Gives a vivid picture of the Japanese invasion of the north coast, martyrdom… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. xxxvi, 452pp, bw plates, text-figures, appendix by Dr L H Dudley Buxton, folding sketch map at rear. Blue cloth, no jacket. Prev owner bookplate inside front cover, light foxing to page edges, bottom corners slightly rounded. The book gives an all-round account of a primitive people in the far west of Papua. The fifteenth in a… Read more about this item

Port Moresby: Grass Roots Comic Company, 1982. Unpaginated (approx 150pp), bw ills. Pictorial card. Some tonign and foxing as expected. The best of the 1980-81 Grass Roots comic panels (220) from the South Pacific Post. Scarce Papua New Guinea publication.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo.

Port Moresby: Grass Roots Comic Company, 1982. Unpaginated (approx 250pp), bw ills. Pictorial card. Some tonign and foxing as expected. All of the 1982 Grass Roots comic panels (246) from the South Pacific Post. Scarce Papua New Guinea publication.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo.

Gloucester, NSW: The Author, 1999. 136pp, bibliography, appendicesnum w ills. Pictorial card. Small crease at top front corner. SIGNED with personalised inscription by author on reverse of contents page. No 200 Squadron RAAF Special Duties Air Operations in WWII. Includes Semut, Borneo, New Britain, Timor, Agas and more.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Pacific Publications., 1973. 239pp, index, appendices, bw ills, endpaper maps. White cloth in jacket. Jacket spine a bit faded, jacket rubbed with a little toning. Minor foxing to endpapers, page edges evenly toned, prev owner name opposite half-title and business stamp on half-title page. . Third Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

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: F W Cheshire, 1963. 252pp, illustrated with b/w photos, two maps in the text, end-paper maps: Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Brown cloth with gilt vignette, in jacket. Light even toning to page edges with some foxing to fore-edge, small dark mark to bottom edge. Jacket worn with creased, rubbing, short tears and small chips. The book covers… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1987. xi, 316pp, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Or boards in jacket. Slight fading to spine, minor wear to top of boards. First contact between Europeans and the Highlanders of Papua New Guinea in the 1930s with more than 100 photographs from the archive of Michael Leahy.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.… Read more about this item

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