Shields of Melanesia

/ Edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig. Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai’i Press, in association with Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, 2005. Quarto (295 x 215 mm), publisher’s black cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; pp. xix, [1], 287; illustrated in colour and b/w; maps; an excellent copy.

Provenance: Professor Joost Daalder, with his occasional pencilled annotations. Loosely inserted are two typescript drafts of a review of the book by Daalder (one amended in pencil, the other rewritten and incorporating the amendments).