Pacific Rim
A History of the Toowoomba Permanent Building Society 1875-1975. (Queensland):Darling Downs Institute Press. 1979. 195pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly worn with some minor soiling to the covers. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$25.00
London:Oxford University Press. 1953. 176pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is worn at the edges with some light fraying and several chips and tears. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy with a good dust jacket.
$16.50
The Hague:W. van Hoeve Ltd. 1955. 465pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is worn at the edges and spine, with some fraying and several chips and tears (one to two inches in length). Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings, save for two brief penciled notations (one on the title page and one on it's verso). Overall, this is a very good copy.
$35.00
London: George Allen & Unwin. (1962). 301pp. Illus. with photographs by the author. Hard bound. With dust jacket. Light fraying of edges of dust jacket, otherwise, a very good, tight, clean copy.
$12.50
Noumea, New Caledonia: Agence de Developpement de la Culture Kanak. (1997). 285 pp. Illustrated. Wraps. Wraps are clean and show only minor shelf wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall a fine copy.
$9.50
Madison:The University of Wisconsin Press. 1963. 253pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly worn at the edges with some minor fraying and some small chips and tears. Spine shows some sun-faded. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$25.00
New York:The Century Co. 1922. 343pp. Illus with photographs. Hard bound. Author served as Governor-General of Philippine Islands, 1913-1921. Front fly-leaf has been torn out. Some foxing on front and back paste downs and on a few pages. Light soiling of binding. Internally a tight, clean copy.
$50.00
Sydney: Communist Part of Australia. 1944. 56 pp. Softcover. Front wrap shows some sunning on the edges, but otherwise in very good, clean condition. Interior is clean and free of markings. Pages brown with age.
$15.00
Translated from the Dutch by Alan G. Readett. Garden City, New York:Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1963. 318pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is worn and frayed at the edges with several small chips and tears. Some soiling to the covers. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$25.00
A Study of a New Guinea Trade System. Seattle:(1967). 282pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is only lightly worn at the edges and spine with just a touch of soiling to the rear cover. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good, near fine copy.
$15.00
Bi-lingual. Both Japanese and extensive English text opposite each of 48 plates. Red linen cloth with gold Japanese characters on spine. An excellent copy.
$35.00
Ideas, Men, and Institutions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Easter Australia. Cambridge:Harvard University Press. 1957. 304pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is only lightly worn with some minor soiling to the covers. Otherwise in very good condition. Book itself shows some mild shelf-wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$35.00
Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under early Spanish Rule. Ithaca:Cornell University Press. (1988). 230pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows only some light wear to the edges and spine (which also shows some light sun-fading), but otherwise in very good condition. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$20.00
Pre-War Philippines Essays. Rizal:Araneta University Press. (1963). 273pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is lightly soiled with some age-toning to the covers and light sunning to the spine. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though there is some toning to portions of pages 30-45. Overall, this is a very good, clean copy. Essays recording pre-WWII Philippines. The author was the Philippines foreign correspondent of the Chicago Daily News Foreign News Service. .
$75.00
Washington D.C.:The Smithsonian Institution. 1943. 104pp. Illustrated. Softcover. Covers are lightly worn with some age-toning to the edges and spine and some very light and localized water staining to the top left corner of the rear cover, affecting the last few pages. Interior is clean and free of stary markings save for some age-toning to the page edges throughout. Overall, this is a good copy.
$15.00
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