MICHENER, JAMES. Tales of the South Pacific. 8vo, publisher's orange cloth, slightest rubbing to spine tips; dust jacket, front flap corners clipped with price intact, professional restorations to verso mending tears and chips; uniform toning throughout text as usually found, faded ink stamp to rear flyleaf and foxing to front and end matter. first edition of michener's first book. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the source material for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. New York: Macmillan, 1947