(Pacific Islands) Eight good works George Cousins. 'The Stor...

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(Pacific Islands) Eight good works George Cousins. 'The Story of the South Seas. Written for Young People,' special centenary gift and New Year Offering edition, original pictorial cloth faded with a split to head of spine, vg text block profuse with illustrations and steel engravings, good, London Missionary Society, London, 1894; William Reed. 'Recent Wanderings in Fiji; Glimpses of its Villages, Churches, and Schools,' original decorative cloth with some light staining, lacks ffep, frontis steel engraving, spotting to edge of text block, good to vg, T. Woolmer, London, 1888; Frederick O'Brien. 'Atolls of the Sun,' decorative pictorial cloth, slight cracking to inner hinge, b+w photographic plates throughout, vg, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1922; W. Wyatt Gill. 'Jottings from the Pacific,' original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, present inscription to ffep, sixteen steel engravings, vg, The Religious Tract Society, London, 1885; Louis Becke. 'Pacific Tales,' third edition, original green cloth, lacks ffep, frontis engraving of the author, vg, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1897; Sir Albert Ellis. 'Mid-Pacific Outposts,' original cloth, toning throughout, b+w photographic plates with some spotting, Brown and Stewart Limited, New Zealand, 1946; Ernest Beaglehole. 'Islands of Danger,' original rust cloth with paper label to spine, plates and frontis, vg, Progressive Publishing Society, Wellington, 1944; With two other works. (8) 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.