[iv], 240pp, with black and white plate illustrations. In green cloth-coverd boards with black lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth on spine is faded, gently pushed at spine ends. Mild offset tanning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, very lightly chapped along upper edge, gently rubbed on other extreme edges, a little sunned over spine and some browning on verso.
The memoirs of a colonial adminstrator in the Soloman Islands, with much about the Islands, their people, culture and development in the mid part of the 20th century.
