(Pacific Islands) Twelve works Walter E. Traprock. 'The Crui...

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(Pacific Islands) Twelve works Walter E. Traprock. 'The Cruise of the Kawa. Wanderings in the South Seas,' first edition, original cloth slightly grubby, lacks dj and map, photographic plates complete, vg, G. P. Putman's Sons, New York and London, 1921; Jack McLaren. 'My Odyssey,' first edition, original cloth, spotting to endpapers and edge of text block, b+w plates good, Jonathan Cape, London, 1923; Robert Gibbings. 'Over Reefs,' first trade edition, original cloth will gilt decorations, scarce unclipped dj, ex libris label, spotting to edge of text block, good to vg, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1948; Sverre Holmsen. 'Singing Coral,' translated by Joan Bulman, first English edition, bookplate of Sir Raymond Edward Priestley MC (20 July 1886 – 24 June 1974), original cloth, unclipped dj, heavy spotting to endpapers and edge of text block, James Barrie, London, 1951; Sir George Grey. 'Polynesian Mythology & Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealanders. As Furnished by Their Priests and Chiefs,' the New Universal Library, original cloth with gilt decorations to the spine, some light spotting, George Routledge & Sons, London, n.d; With seven other works mostly reprints. (12) 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.