Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener [FIRST EDITION] 1947 • Macmillan

Tales of the South Pacific by James A Michener 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1947] THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1st / 1st.  1947.  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket has general surface and edge wear, as well as several tiny edge tears; a few small pieces of clear tape on underside.  One tiny red stain atop corner of back cover / rear panel.

Book itself looks new and unread. Clean and bright pages read like new. 

Cloth cover is bright, clean and unfaded.  Spine is perfect.  Back of cover has whitening along edges. 

Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and inspiration for the hit musical, South Pacific.

Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting for love in a tropic paradise.