Moyle m richard (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Jacket has heavy wear, tears and some marks. Minor pencil marks to top corner of first page, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. Includes vinyl record to front pocket. 271pp Size: 220mm x 285mm. Book.

Hardback. Printed pages: 271. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lacking jacket. Black cloth binding. Foxing to page edges. Very clean text throughout. Complete with the 45 RPM disc which is in mint condition. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 9 x 11.5 inches (22.5 x 29 cm).

imperal octavo, illus light card covers, 54pp, illus, (VG+) light brusing to front cover and fep.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 147 pp., illustrations, bibliography, maps. Includes 2 audio CDs. This modest anthology of fables represents the first publication in the language of Taku, a Polynesian outlier situated off the east coast of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. The island's small size and remoteness have left it largely untouched by Western influences, and a forty-year-old ban on Christian missionaries and churches has allowed the population of 450 to continue unhindered a variety of traditional practices long disconintued on neighbouring atolls, and indeed within Polynesia itself. Taku's language is Samoic and, in common with Samoa itself and other island groups within West Polynesia, Taku's oral tradition includes a category of fables told princibipally for domestic entertainment in a family setting. These stories incorporate one or more short songs which the narrator sings at crucial moments in the plots. The plots of several stories and the names of their principal characters are common to several Polynesian groups, but on Taku the fables are given an extra sense of realism by being localised on the island itself. The numbers of these stories, which are called kkai, are quite low and this anthology represents the contemporary repertoire. Includes 2 music CDs.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Auckland, Auckland Institute and Museum, 1989. Quarto, [viii], 54 pages with 7 maps and numerous illustrations (from photographs). Colour pictorial card covers; head of the spine very slightly torn; an excellent copy. An illustrated catalogue of the sound-producing instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute Museum.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 302 p., bibliography, index. 0.0.

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. F-. First Edition. F-/F-. 8vo. original brown textured paper boards gilt in dustwrapper (trifling edge rubbing & spine fade); pp. x, 302, with frontispiece. A near fine copy.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 28cm x 21.5cm. vii, 183 pages. Illustrated wrappers. Musical score throughout. Minor tanning and foxing. Small amount of insect damage to front flyleaf. Previous owner's name. Category: Aboriginal Australia; Performing Arts::Music; Australia|Western Australia|Northern Territory; 20th Century: 1970s; Performing Arts. ISBN: 0855750871. ISBN/EAN: 9780855750879. Inventory No: 0037345.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1979 (first edition, 'soft cover' version). Quarto, viii, 183 pages with 12 illustrations (from photographs), 19 figures and 64 music scores plus a taped-in errata slip (now loose). Decorated card covers lightly bumped and sunned; small offset tape stain to the first three leaves; an excellent copy.…

First edition. 4to. 271 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. 7" vinyl recording present. Music of the Alyawarra, living to north-east of Alice Springs. Nearly 200 songs transcribed. Illustrated with photographs, musical examples, and notations.