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The Spell of the Pacific - An Anthology of its Literature, a rare collectible.

The Spell of the Pacific - An Anthology of its Literature, a rare collectible.

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This is a scarce, huge and important anthology of Pacifica work. Introduced by James Michener, and featuring Herman Melville, Pierre Loti, Mark Twain, Henry Adams, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Rupert Brooke, and others. Michener had won the Pulitzer Prize the year before this publication for his first book, Tales of the South Pacific.

Edited by Carl Stroven and A. Grove Day. Published by The Macmillan Company New York 1949. 940pp

Cloth hard cover, gilted titles, dust jacket tidy with minor tears and scuffs. Owners signature to inside front cover. Very limited foxing. Overall a VG copy for its age. 

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