Read, Kenneth E. — The High Valley

London, England, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As classic a Highlands New Guinea ethnography as can be found, a ground-breaking and sensitive work about the culture and social-structure in Central New Guinea. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's inked inscription at first free endpaper. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn along top edge, front inner flap clipped, but price present. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and some fine plates of local peoples of Susuroka village near Goroka, currently Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands Province. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvii266 [4] pp..Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,