Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

The Papuas of Waropen

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xv, 384 (1)pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph. Study of the Waropen tribe, the only coastal tribe in Northern New Guinea which at that time still remained pagan, under the instructions of the Netherlands Bible Society at Amsterdam. The manuscript was finished in 1942 but only published in 1947 in Dutch. An English translation was commissioned by the Editorial Board of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde after the untimely death of the author in 1955. Illustrated with many b/w photographs and drawings, one folding map in-text and one at rear. Binding with small tear and bump at middle of top cover. Dealer sticker on inside back cover. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition. vg. Item #34997

Price: $95.00

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