Rainier, Chris — Where Masks Still Dance: New Guinea

Boston, Bulfinch, an imprint of Little, Brown, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. But for the unobtrusive remainder mark along the top edge, a near-gift quality condition copy, bound in an oversized, quarto oblong hardcover format, with simple black cloth over board, white lettering to spine. Augmented with 107 duotone photographs, a black-and-white map, assaying eight trips taken by the author to Papua New Guinea over a decades. 132 pp. Opening essay by Meg Taylor, former Papua New Guinea ambassador to the U.S., 1989-1994, and daughter of Australian patrol officer extraordinaire, Jim Taylor. The chapters include a collaboration with Paul Berry and the following titles: Further into the Forest; Rites of Passage; A Forest for the Trees; The Cult of Cargo; At the Sing-Sing; A Tribal Fight Begins; The Undiscovered; and The Message in the Forest. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Fine,