(The Fijian Islands) Ten good works Agnes Gardner King. 'Isl...

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(The Fijian Islands) Ten good works Agnes Gardner King. 'Islands Far Away. Fijian Pictures with Pen and Brush,' presentation inscription by the author to half title, second edition, original cloth with pictorial embossing, scribbles to prelims, frontis, plates and vignette illustrations, vg, Sifton, Praed & Co, London, 1921; George Stringer Rowe (ed) and Thomas Williams and James Calvert. 'Fiji and the Fijians,' two volumes bound in one, second edition revised, original green cloth rubbed and bumped, light spotting to edge of text block, plates, with Heads of Chiefs in Full Dress coloured, fold out map, vignette steel engravings, generally vg, Alexander Heylin, London, 1860; H. Stonehewer Cooper. 'The Coral Lands of the Pacific: Their Peoples and Their Products,' new and revised edition, original blue decorative cloth, frontis engraving, spotting to edge of text block, vg, Richard Bentley and Son, London, 1882; C. F. Gordon Cumming. 'At Home in Fiji,' fifth edition, original decorative cloth with water daamged back strip, cracking to innier joints, MS gift note pasted to front pastedown, couple of tide marks to front and back but generally a good text bloock, frontis and plates, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1885; Beatrice Grimshaw. 'From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands,' first edition, original red cloth with gilt lettering, backstrip a some what faded, frontis, ink MS gift inscription to halftitle, some spotting, plates and vignette illustrations, vg, Eveleigh Nash, London, 1907; Arthur Alban Wright (ed). 'The Colony of Fiji 1874-1929,' second edition, original card wraps with colour illustration pasted to front cover, nibbles and tears with a small amount of loss to ends of back strip, spotting to edge of text block, ink MS gift inscription to the verso of frontis, profuce with fascinating sepia photographic plates, fold out map, tight text block, vg, J. J. McHugh, Govenment Printer, Suva, Fiji, 1929; with four other works. (10) 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.