Fuller Force Roland (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Lund Humphries, London 1971
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Lund Humphries, 1971. Large quarto, xvi, 360 pages with a tipped-in colour portrait of Captain A.W.F. Fuller and hundreds of illustrations from photographs plus endpaper maps. Gilt-decorated cloth (with the decoration slightly tarnished); top edge slig…htly marked; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper sunned about the spine and a little chipped and torn (with indifferent repairs on the verso). 'Although the Fuller Collection is pan-Pacific . its three main segments are derived from Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia. The areas most amply represented - and, consequently, those treated most extensively in this volume - are New Zealand and the Solomon Islands' (dustwrapper blurb).
Seller: Richard Neylon, St Marys, TAS, AustraliaRichard Neylon
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Condition: very good. NY, Praeger 1971. Quarto publisher's cloth; 360pp, hundreds of photo illustrations. Loosely inserted is an article on the ethnographic forger and thief James Little.The dedication copy inscribed by Roland Force to "Estelle Fuller with enduring gratitude". Fuller's collection went to the Field Museum in 1958… and by the time this book appeared Fuller himself was a decade dead. I suppose Estelle Cleverly knew what she was getting herself into when Alfred Fuller "proposed to his wife beside his favorite object in the British Museum". But you wonder how she felt when he "cut their honeymoon short to attend an ethnographic auction" and then "every day from noon until three oâclock in the morning, Fuller arranged and rearranged his items" (from notes about Fuller on the Field Museum site). Was he so anxious to find a permanent home for his collection to save it from the well known 'widow's revenge' that often sees a husband's first love go into the bonfire? *This item might cost more to post than quoted by abe.
