Kiribati Stamp Album

Good morning,
I recently bought a large collection of albums, locally. This Kiribati album was included. I googled it and cannot find anything similar. There is no frontispiece to tell me who is the publisher. So, my questions are:
Is anyone familiar with this?
Who is the publisher?
Is there any value to this, ie, are there collectors out there for this type of album?

It appears to be complete from 1979-1983. For a tiny country, they sure issue a lot of stamps...
Thank you.

Small/poor countries had (have) a tendency to issue a lot of stamps as a way to raise revenue from collectors. I'm with you about the album itself, never come across a Kiribati-specific album.

maybe a 'special order' album from White Ace?? The page layout & bordering look similar to their product..?? maybe??? (Very Early product line edition)??

I'm not sure about White Ace as this doesn't look much like what they produced. Their albums were all 3-ring albums with a very distinctive page style that this does not have with rounded page corners, a distinctive border design, a black hardcover binder, and so on. And the pages always had "White Ace" in the lefthand margin. At first glance, this looked to me like a standard European or British 22-ring binder. But it's actually a weird 23-ring binder. But anyway that suggests it's European. Because Kiribati was a British colony and in the UK, there is great interest in its colonies, I'd guess this was most likely a British-produced album. There are a lot of this kind of thing with stamp dealers and others trying to drum up interest in collecting some area so they can be the supplier of those stamps.

Kiribati is a group of South Pacific islands with a very small population. So I'm sure they don't need (or use) anywhere the number of stamps they issue which puts this in the category with Sand Dune countries and others who use stamps as a revenue source far more than for postal use. This typically results in many issues to appeal to collectors but which have very little to do with the country "issuing" them, often stamps about pop stars, Lady Diana, Elvis, dogs, cats, birds and other topicals and various lengthy issue honoring other topics. Fine if you like that sort of thing, but a bit unlike most actual "postage" stamps.

That's because these stamps are typically printed out of the country, in Europe usually (nothing wrong with that), but then the publisher ships most of the stamps directly to dealers around the world without the stamps ever getting to the country, itself -- or with relatively few stamps getting there. Kind of a scam, I'd say, and I generally avoid collecting such countries -- though I do make a few exceptions. For this reason, I'd think that collecting such countries' stamps in used condition would be a good deal more difficult than collecting them unused, and that approach might appeal to some collectors.

For those who know their history, Kiribati is where the island of Tarawa is located, famous as one of the bloodier and more awful sites of American landings against the Japanese in World War II.