THE FATAL IMPACT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1767-1840
Written by Alan Moorehead.
Stock no. 1831257
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The late Alan Moorehead evocatively recounts the almost inevitable tragic consequences for the native people and cultures of the South Pacific when Western man "discovered" them, even when the discoverer, Cook, was no conquistador and had come with high hopes of peaceful and productive co-existence. Green cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. B/w photos and illustratilons. xiv and 230 pages including index. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-rubbed.

THE FIRST TEAM
Written by John B. Lundstrom.
Stock no. 1329411
Published by Naval Institute Press. 1990. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Reprinted with updates and corrections. Dark grey cloth boards, silver title to spine. 547 pages. B/w photos. Pacific naval air combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. ISBN: 0870211897. Dustwrapper has a slight crease to top of spine edge on rear panel.

PERILOUS PARADISE: PHOTO STORY OF NEW GUINEA AND ITS EMERGING PEOPLE
Written by Eric Were.
Stock no. 1829032
Published by Pacific Press Publishing Association. 1st 1968. Very good condition.

From its steamy, mosquito-infested swamps to its high fertile valleys and mist-enshrouded peaks, New Guinea presents 300,000 square miles of highly diversified terrain with 2,000,000 needy but fascinating tribal people. This land is a perilous paradise with minimum of comfort and maximum of challenge. Especially featured in this book are a group of missionaries who are doing humanitarian work, often under difficult circumstances. Matt pictorial boards. B/w photos, a few colour photos. Not paginated. Spine lightly faded, corners of boards lightly worn. Bookplate to half-title page and a few grubby marks to same. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE PACIFIC
Written by Gregory Bienstock.
Stock no. 2139505
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1937. Good condition.

Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Ex-lib. with many ink stamps to prelims and outer page edges; number to spine. Bumping and wear. A reading copy.

THE BLUE OF CAPRICORN
Written by Eugene Burdick. Illustrated by William Hofmann.
Stock no. 1818943
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1962. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The Pacific in its Wonder. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Second impression. Text block lightly browned. Price-cut blue pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn with a few tape repairs to verso, scuffed to rear panel.

MY ADVENTURES AMONG SOUTH SEA CANNIBALS
Written by Douglas Rannie.
Stock no. 1606080
Published by Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1912. Almost very good condition.

An account of the experiences and adventures of a Government official among the natives of Oceania. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 39 plates and 1 map. 314 pages including index plus 16 pages publisher adverts to rear. Spine and corners bumped, spine faded. Some foxing. Contents generally very good. All plates and map present.

49TH FIGHTER GROUP ACES OF THE PACIFIC
Written by William N. Hess.
Stock no. 1605323
Published by Osprey Publishing. 2nd 2005. Nearly fine condition.

Card wraps. Aviation Elite Unites series 14. B/w photos and colour illustrations. ISBN: 9781841767857.

THE PACIFIC
Written by Hugh Ambrose.
Stock no. 1801198
Published by Canongate. 1st 2010. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A unique historical perspective on the war against Japan during the Second World War. True stories of five men and their fellow servicemen who put their lives on the line for their country. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781847678225. Horixontal crease to cloth near top of spine else a fine copy in a pictorial wrapper which is lightly creased at edges.

THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC SINCE 1900
Written by C. Hartley Grattann.
Stock no. 560546
Published by University of Michigan. 1st 1963. Almost very good condition.

759 + xxviii pages. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Australia, New Zealand, the Islands and Antarctica. Ex-lib with stamping to prelims else contents very good.