Kovave: A Journal of New Guinea Literature [pilot issue with prospectus signed by Ulli Beier laid in]
Milton, Queensland, Australia: Jacaranda Press, 1968. Very Good. Item #48510
Milton, Queensland, Australia: Jacaranda Press, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated wraps; 56pp. Prospectus for Kovave laid in, noting this as a pilot issue and featuring a brief hand-written note from Ulli Beier. Light wear and creasing to wraps; curling to corners; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good.
Rare pilot issue of Beier's important periodical, published contemporaneously with the Papua Pocket Poet series, each of which featured many of the same authors who were students at the time and would go on to lead the nation in independence. Included here are works by Vincent Eri, who would serve as the country's Governor-General, and Albert Maori Kiki, who would become Papua New Guinea's first Deputy Prime Minister in 1975.
Kovave was named after the first initiation ceremony of the Orokolo people, and this, New Guinea's first literary magazine, was to encourage young Papuan and New Guinean writers and thinkers, an important creative vehicle in one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse regions in the world. All issues of Kovave rather uncommon.
Price: $750.00