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Hardcover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Moderate foxing to paper on boards.; Second edition of this directory. [Worldcat, in addition to this 1903-1904 title, also lists similar titles for 1902-1903 and for 1905]. vi, 207 pages including printed pastedown endpapers + 1 folding map (Fiji). 2 full page maps within the pagination (New Caledonia; Georgian & Society Islands). Printed papered boards with blue-green cloth spine. Page dimensions: 212 x 140mm. "We have much pleasure in placing the second edition before our readers [. . .] The whole of the letterpress has been carefully revised, the map of Fiji re-drawn, new maps have been furnished for New Caledonia and Society Islands. Several new half-tone engravings have been inserted typical of the Islands; while the whole of the various heads of information has been classified and placed together for convenience of reference, thus: All the Directory names are placed together, under their own island groups, in the following order: Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tahiti, Tonga or the Friendly Islands, and Cook Islands." - from the Introduction, page v. Contents includes "Commercial Directory" lising the names and occupations of many individuals, arranged by Island group. Includes advertisements. Illustrations include half-tone photographic illustrations of Samoan Girls; Fijian Princesses; A Fijian Hawker; A Tongan Langi. No date on title page, but the volume includes an "Almanac & Diary" with sections for each month of 1904. A footnote dated 13th January, 1903 on page 80 has "Since the above was written, a destructive hurricane, accompanied by a tidal-wave, swept over some of the low-lying islands of the Paumoto group [. . .]" Title on front board: "Dineen's Commercial Directory and Tourists' Guide to the South Pacific Islands. 1903-4." Very Good No dust jacket as issued.…