Headhunting in the Solomon Islands : Around the Coral Sea.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Black and white illustrations. Book club edition. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Slight presses to spine tips, light sunning to upper and lower edges, still near fine in very good dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine head, several short closed tears to upper and lower edges with archival tape repair to spine head verso, lightly toned spine and extremities, in mylar cover. Item #243046
FAMILIAR WITH THE HEADHUNTERS
Caroline Mytinger took off from San Francisco armed with her art supplies and the task of painting portraits of headhunters throughout Papa New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Her work introduced the visuals of many Oceanic tribes to the West.
This book club edition is specially inscribed from one veteran to another: "For Walter, Who will find much of this familiar and all of it, I hope, interesting. With grateful appreciation of this part in the war for us. Pearle November 1945," capturing a memory of the Pacific Theater of World War II.
Price: $65.00