Copies of Mihalic's dictionary [was Sindaun]

[Thomas H. Slone]

Try bookfinder.com:
	http://www.bookfinder.com/
This is a meta-search engine which searches most of the major on-line 
new and used book stores and many of the minor used stores.  The book 
is indeed out of print, but a search turned up 2 used copies for sale 
of the 1971 (second) edition as well as some copies of the first 
edition.

Also of interest to the list, Friedrich Steinbauer's dictionary was 
reprinted recently ("Concise dictionary of New Guinea pidgin").  It 
was originally published by Kristen Pres in Madang and was then 
reprinted by Hippocrene Books in New York (renamed "Neo-Melanesian - 
English Concise Dictionary: New Guinea Pidgin-English Language").  It 
is trilingual and monodirectional, from Tok Pisin to English and 
German.  Its main value for us though is that it includes much 
etymology that Mihalic does not include.

--Tom Slone

>Two enquires:
>
>1) Are copies of the Mihalic dictionary available anywhere these days?
>When I was in PNG last year I gave away my copy to a villager in Lababia
>whose ambition was to teach himself some english(!!!) To my dismay I
>then discovered the book was out of print. I checked every conceivable
>bookstore in Lae and Port Moresby but no one had any copies left. If
>anyone knows where I can get another copy, please let me know.
>
>John Wagner

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Thomas H. Slone
Carcinogenic Potency Project
University of California at Berkeley,
and E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
tom at potency.berkeley.edu