Author: FRISBIE, FLORENCE (JOHNNY)
Title: Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka
Description: New York, Macmillan. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 241pp. Turquoise boards with red ornamentation to front and spine. Extremely rare and fragile, unclipped dustjacket has some loss and minor chipping and is separating along spine-crease. Now protected in archival cover. Sub-titled 'The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter' this is the rare autobiographical narrative of Florence "Johnny" Frisbie (b. 1932), daughter of the American novelist and travel writer, Robert Dean Frisbie. Encouraged to write by her father, Johnny wrote her novel from her own journals. It deals with her life on the Cook Islands atoll and her bond with her father and family. Extremely rare with dustjacket. Very Good/Good.
Keywords: Literature, Novels, Biography, Polynesia
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Title: Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka
Description: New York, Macmillan. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 241pp. Turquoise boards with red ornamentation to front and spine. Extremely rare and fragile, unclipped dustjacket has some loss and minor chipping and is separating along spine-crease. Now protected in archival cover. Sub-titled 'The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter' this is the rare autobiographical narrative of Florence "Johnny" Frisbie (b. 1932), daughter of the American novelist and travel writer, Robert Dean Frisbie. Encouraged to write by her father, Johnny wrote her novel from her own journals. It deals with her life on the Cook Islands atoll and her bond with her father and family. Extremely rare with dustjacket. Very Good/Good.
Keywords: Literature, Novels, Biography, Polynesia
Price: EUR 475.00 = appr. US$ 516.25 Seller: Neale Williams Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 8912
- Book number: 8912
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