Keesing, Felix — Modern Samoa: Its Government and Changing Life

London, England, George Allen & Unwin, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no copies available on-line of this First Edition, only P.O.D.s being available. A removed accession number at spine bottom and that has been expertly and finely buffed out in the only sign of its once ex-library status. No check-out pocket, ink-stamps or additional accession numbers. Bound handsomely in green cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. First Edition, scarce in this state and condition. Clean, tightly bound and unmarked of interior. Felix Keesing, father of Roger Keesing, was the preeminent ethnographer of Samoa for many decades. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter, 7-506 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good