My Samoan Chief (First edition hardback 1963). By Fay G. Calkins

My Samoan Chief by Fay G. Calkins.

Publisher: Frederick Muller, London, 1963, first British edition.

Good hardback; no jacket; some rubbing; bumping; fading and marks to green boards. Inscription to ffep; binding firm; some foxing; minor marks; light stains to page edges. 224 pages.

This is an engaging autobiographical account of a young American woman's life in her Samoan husband's native home. Fay Calkins, a descendant of Puritan settlers, met Vai Ala'ilima, a descendant of Samoan chiefs, while working on her doctoral dissertation in the Library of Congress.

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