(Gilbert and Ellice Islands) Tuvalu and Kiribati A large col...

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(Gilbert and Ellice Islands) Tuvalu and Kiribati A large collection of reports. Colonial Annual Reports. 'Gilbert & Ellice Islands,' a complete run from 1948 to 1974, up to 1965 all card wraps with rusted staple binds, then modernised card wraps with 66-68 being colour wraps, duplicate 1952/53, all vg, (19); 'Tuvalu Independence Official Programme, 26th Sept.- 1st Oct. 1978,' staple bound, vg; 'Tuvalu. The Queen's Visit 1982, Official Programme 26-27th Oct. 1982,' staple bound, light spotting, vg; 'Official Programme and Official Arrangments for the royal Visit 1982,' printed card wraps, staple bind, different colour paper stock throughout, pagination suggest a sammelband of different reports, vg; 'Living in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony,' Issued by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Overseas Development Administration, three copies dated 1971, 73 and 77, card wraps, vg; 'British Possessions in Oceania,' ring bound, quality of the printing would suggest printed on an island, 1920 (but later); 'Report of the Gilbert Islands Constitutional Conference,' London, November/December 1978; 'A Report on the Results of the Census of the Population of Tuvalu 1979,' card wraps, vg, Government of Tuvalu, Funafuti, Tuvalu, 1980; 'Tuvalu. Second Development Plan 1980-1983,' card wraps, light spotting, Stredder Print Limited, New Zealand; 'A Report on Information and Broadcasting Services in The Gilbert and Ellice Islands,' printed thin card wraps, spotting, some ink annotations, Commissioned by the Ministry of Overseas Development, July 1970; 'The Proceedings of HMS Royalist Captian E. H. M. Davis, 1892, In the Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Islands,' card wraps, some spotting, typescript, The Tungavalu Society, 1976; With another copy and errata list; With thirty other reports, mostly all with card wraps, including both governmental and academic. (50+) Increasingly scarce. Tuvalu National Archives major project | Endangered Archives Programme From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.