Rangatira (the High-born). A Polynesian Saga
Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1959.
Octavo, 208 pages with line illustrations by Douglas F. Maxted.
Decorated papered boards; spine a little sunned; endpapers tape-marked; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed and torn at the extremities, and the spine a little tanned.
Signed by Harold A. Lindsay on the front free endpaper. 'Two Australian anthropologists, Norman Tindale and Harold Lindsay, making full use of their long study of the subject, have constructed a vivid, fascinating story of these early Maori people of whose later days Melville wrote in 'Typee'' (from the front flap of the colour pictorial dustwrapper - illustration also by Maxted).
Item #128190
Price (AUD):
$55.00