By James Norman Hall; Charles Bernard Nordhoff
New York   Harper & Brothers
9" by 6.5" 3-354 [1]pp
The first edition of Nordhoff and Hall's account of their tour of the South Pacific and its Islands.
By James Norman Hall; Charles Bernard Nordhoff

1921 Faery Lands of the South Seas

New York   Harper & Brothers
9" by 6.5" 3-354 [1]pp
The first edition of Nordhoff and Hall's account of their tour of the South Pacific and its Islands.
£85.00
: 1kgs / : 920F4

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Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, first printing, with printer's code 'K-V' to the colophon.

Following the First World War, Americans James Hall and Charles Nordhoff together toured the South Pacific, describing in detail life in French Polynesia in the late 1910s.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-nine further plates by George A. Picken. Collated, complete.

With the inscription of H Shady to the front free endpaper.

The first of many collaborations between Nordhoff and Hall.

Condition

In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Front joint starting, with board firmly held. Rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instances of foxing to the first few leaves.

Very Good

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