Keesing Roger Peter Corris (9 results)
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Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.rareviewbooks
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback book (219 pages)illustrated with decorated endpapers and vintage black and white photographs. Dust jacket shows moderate rubbing/scuffing. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-Door-TS-Down-L) rareviewbooks.
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Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, AustraliaLawrence Jones Books
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xv, 219pp, index, notes, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Slight creasing to flap otherwie near new. The 1927 killing of William Bell, a colonial government representative on Malaita in the Solomon Islands sparked a destruction mo…re wanton and complete than could have been foreseen. The subsequent random killing of the Kwaio, raping of their women, destruction of their shrines and desecration of their sacred objects resulted in a severe dislocation in the Kwaio way of life from which they never recovered. Size: 8vo.
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Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaGoulds Book Arcade, Sydney
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket has a bit of wear, with a small tear on the front. The page edges are a bit tanned and foxed. 219 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
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Seller: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaAsia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB
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Endpaper maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 219pp, notes, index. Corners little bumped but still very good hardback in dustjacket. Reconstruction of the events leading up to the murder of William Bell, colonial representative in Malaita, by the Kwaio warrior leader Basiana. It draws on the testimony of Kwaio…eyewitnesses and presents a side of a colonial contfrontation that has hitherto been obscured from view.
Published by Melb. OUP., 1980
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Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, AustraliaThe Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB)
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Or.bds. Dustjacket. 219pp. b/w plates. Very Good copy. 1st ed. The 1927 punitive expedition following the massacre of the colonial government representative & his party of native police in the Solomons. This caused a severe dislocation to the Kwaio way of life.
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Seller: Rons Bookshop (Canberra, Australia), Canberra, ACT, AustraliaRons Bookshop (Canberra, Australia)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. In this book, anthropologist Roger M. Keesing, who has spent sixteen years among the Kwaio, and historian Peter Corris reconstruct, for the first tim from both sides, the events leading up to the October 1927 murder of William Bell, government representat…ive on Malaita in the Solomon Islands. **The jacket has a small tear at the top ot he spine**.
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Seller: Elizabeth's Bookshops, Fremantle, WA, AustraliaElizabeth's Bookshops
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Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condition: Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA -William Bell, the colonial government representative on Malaita, Solomon Islands, was murdered while collecting taxes in October 1927. The party of native police with him were also massacred. Bell was an Australian, a towering figure in the pacification of the wildest i…sland in the Pacific, and his murder by the Kwaio warrior leader Basiana was the end of a confrontation between two strong men and two opposing ways of life. Basiana and his followers feared a pervasive threat to their ancestral way of life, and decided to challenge the power of Empire by killing its most forceful representative. The Kwaio people have never recovered from the subsequent random killing of the 'Malaitamen' by the Australian planters and volunteers requested by the British government, who arrived on the Australian gunboat, H.M.A.S. Adelaide. In this book anthropologist Roger M. Keesing, who has spent 16 years among the Kwaio, and academic historian Peter Corris (who later became a crime fiction writer), reconstruct for the first time from both sides the events leading up to Bell's murder and its aftermath.First Edition. (Light shelf wear to jacket edge) xv,219p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23cm. #030626 Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.
Published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1980
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Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaMichael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1980. Octavo, xvi, 219 pages with 2 maps and 16 pages of plates (totalling 29 images from photographs) plus endpaper maps. Papered boards; a near-fine copy with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper.
Published by Oxford University Press. First Australian edition, Melbourne, 1980
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Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, AustraliaBadger Books
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Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Malaita, Solomon Islands, 1927: William Bell, colonial government representative, murdered, followed by the revenge on the 'Malaitamen'; illustrated; inscribed by Peter Corris in 1987. Fine in dustwrapper. inscribed by author. book.
