The Book of Puka-Puka By Robert Dean Frisbie 1st UK Edition 1930

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Author: Robert Dean Frisbie (illustrated by Mahlon Blaine) 


Title: The Book of Puka-Puka 


Publication:  First UK Edition 1st Impression Published By John Murray London 1930…………(See Pictures) 


Condition and Status of The Book: 


This is a Very Good Copy of this book in publisher’s original red cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine and with illustrated drawing in black to the front cover.No Dust-Jacket.Maps as endpapers of the Pacific Ocean and the Island of Puka-Puka.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.There are no former owner’s names present.Illustrated in black and white by Mahlon Blaine.Contents remain clean with just a little age toning/dulling to the text block edges.First UK Edition and a lot rare than the US First Edition,8vo 356pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1930] 

** Puka-Puka is a triangular coral reef, some seven miles in circumference with three islands. It frames a lagoon so clear that one can see the coral forests some ten fathoms below. It is the most remote, and probably the most beautiful, of all the Cook Islands.Inhabited by a South Seas Trader a young American who fishes, picnics, swims, sleeps and falls in love but fortunately also listens out for good stories **

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