South Sea Yarns

by Basil Thomson

$75 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 326pp., 32pp. advertisements . Original illustrated mocha cloth with black lettering on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Basil Thomson served in the colonial service in Fiji and as Prime Minister of Tonga and New Guinea. This account of the culture and customs of Oceania is illustrated with

• Binding: Hardcover

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