Kooijman, Simon — Tapa in Polynesia

Honolulu, Hawaii, Bishop Museum Press, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy, an uncommonly good-looking exemplar of a precious book about the arts and crafts skills and designs of Polynesian tapa cloth-artists. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Scarce in this First Edition state, unusually heavy, brown softpaper wraps. xiv, 498 pp. and complete with map, and plentiful figures and illustrations, photographs galore in black-and-white. Slight sun-toning to rear panel, previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, else clean and bright of interior. xiv [2], 3-498 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine