Author: Walter G Ivens
Title: The Island Builders of the Pacific
Description: London, Seeley and Co. Limited, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce ethnographical work on the social practices of the indigenous Mala people, illustrated throughout. A fascinating ethnographical work on the indigenous Mala people, who reside on the Mala Island in Tonga, located east of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. Including chapters on their social organisation, religious beliefs and practices, Mala folk-lore, and more. Written by linguist Walter G. Ivens, a research fellow of The University of Melbourne and author of several works on South Pacific indigenous groups.The first edition of this work. Including eighteen illustrated plates from photographs, along with three maps, two of which are folding. Collated and complete.  Containing an ink signature from a previous owner to the front free-endpaper, dated 1944. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, sound, with some light shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Fading to the spine. Previous owner's ink signature to the front free-endpaper. Internally, binding is slightly tender. Instances of scattered spotting to the pages, particularly to the first and last few pages and pages opposite the plates. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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