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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1957. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 237 pp. With contributions by Van Wyck Brooks and Susanne McConnaughey. Laid in is a card warmly inscribed by the author. Also laid in is a typewritten unpublished poem from the private notebook of James Norman Hall. A fine copy in a square, tight binding. The dust jacket has light edge wear. The spine is a bit darkened..

Salem:: Peabody Museum of Salem,, 1957.. First Printing of the First US Edition. a Fine tight copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a hint of fading to the spine. With the subtitle Interpretations of the oral literature of Polynesia, this is a book of excellent format in which J. Frank Stimson presents interpretations of several tales and legends and of some ninety chants. Most of the original song and tales were transcribed by him Stimson on the island of Raivavae in the Austral group, on several islands of the Tuarnotuan archipelago, or upon his beloved Tahiti. Most of the tales and songs selected by Marshall are from the Tuamotuan Islands, gathered during the Bishop Museum Tuamotuan Expedition of 1929-1931, on which Stimson served as linguist and I as ethnologist and leader, and on the follow-up during the Bishop Museum Mangarevan Expedition of 1934. The value of the material transcribed by Stimson lies in the recording of the sources, and the fact that we know when, where, from whom, and under… Read More