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1924 · 59714 — New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1924. Thick tall 8vo. xiii 1 414 pp. Illustrated title page. Photo frontisp. 79 photo illustrations. Green publisher’s cloth gilt decorative lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine photo-illustrated endpapers t.e.g. minor bumping to couple corners still VG bright copy. First American edition of this lavishly illustrated work featuring the photo illustrations drawn from Hurley’s 1921 silent film documentary Pearls and Savages. He further edited and enhanced the film for re-release in October 1923 with the follow-up film title “With the headhunters in Papua†released in October 1923. The documentary expedition surrounded photographing and recording the work of Anglican missionaries working amongst the peoples of Papua New Guinea and the Torres Strait. Hurley and McCulloch dubiously obtained hundreds of objects including sacred items from indigenous peoples at the time and in fact the territorial administrator Sir Hubert Murray intervened by ordering some returned and Hurley was refused reentry to shoot more films. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover