[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Mitsinari : twenty-one years among the Papuans

A$25 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

London : Staples Press, 1954. First UK edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher s gilt-lettered green cloth (a few marks), in the pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned, else edges chipped with small loss), endpaper maps, pp. 256, illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates; preface by Paul Claudel; a very good copy, from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the half title. First edition of the English translation of Roman Catholic missionary Father Dupeyrat s memoir Vingt et un ans chez les Papous .

• Binding: Hardcover

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