The Frisbies of the South Seas

Small bruise to lower edge of front board. Spots of foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket with tears and small chips to corners and ends of dust-jacket spine. Foxing and rubbing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Mrs. Jones + / Mrs Edmonds, / Aloha nui! / Johnny Frisbie / Dunedin, 1964". First printing. 239. [1] pages. Quarter lime cloth and pink papered boards. Black illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 207 x 136mm. Maps on endpapers. "The five Frisbie children (their father was the writer Robert Dean Frisbie and their mother a lovely Polynesian girl) enjoyed an unusual upbringing in the South Sea Islands. This charming, offbeat memoir is Johnny Frisbie's own account of her childhood and of her remarkable father - who became the children's only parent-teacher-friend after their mother's tragic death in 1938. Diving for mantrap clams; exploring nearby atolls in a precarious outrigger canoe; devising exciting games for moonlit nights on the beach; eating raw fish and roasted 'wide awake' birds; surviving the lashing fury of a typhoon while tied to the top of a coconut palm . . . Johnny Frisbie recalls her childhood with nostalgia and delightful humor." - from dust-jacket blurb. ; Signed by Author

Product Info

Publisher: Doubleday & Company

Year: (1959)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

Seller Info

RenaissanceBooks

Address: PO Box 335 Dunedin, Not Required

Website: https://renaissancebooks.co.nz

Country: New Zealand