[NEW GUINEA] A dictionary of the Motu language of Papua.

Sydney, NSW : A. H. Pettifer, Government Printer, [1941]. Second edition. Octavo (240 x 150 mm), publisher’s silver-lettered green cloth over boards (lightly marked); pp. 158; internally clean and sound, a very good copy with original owner’s name to front pastedown and the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne) to front endpaper.

‘This Dictionary is a re-issue, with a few corrections and additions, of the vocabulary section of Messrs. Turner and Clark’s “Revised Motu grammar and vocabulary” published in 193 … The essay on “The connection of the Motu language with Indonesian and Melanesian,” which appeared as an introduction to the original book, is also reprinted here.’ (Editor’s note)