Headhunting in the Solomon Islands [*SIGNED*]

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good-. 1942. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. (beige cloth; no dust jacket) [slight fraying at crown of spine and at several corners, spine slightly turned, front hinge a little loosey-goosey but not cracked or separated]. (B&W plates, small pen & ink drawings) SIGNED by the author on the title page, additionally dated 1-3-47. Popular travel book, but not the manly adventure suggested by the title; rather, it's an account by the artist-author and her traveling companion (also a woman) of their four-year expedition (1926-1930) throughout the Southwest Pacific, during which Ms. Mytinger painted portraits (truncated) of the indigenous headhunters who inhabited such places as the Solomon Islands and New Britain. A second book about their adventure, New Guinea Headhunt, was published in 1946. Mytinger's paintings (67 of them) are in the collection of UC Berkeley's Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and were featured in the Museum's 2008 exhibition "Face to Face: Looking at Objects That Look at You." Uncommon signed. Signed by Author . (Inventory #: 28890)