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191022341Honolulu: The Hawaii Promotion Committee 1910. Folding 9 panels; originally folded to 18cm x 8cm promotional brochure. Map compiled for the Hawaii Promotion Committee by E.A. Southworth. Locates principal public buildings hotels businesses parks and wharves by number keyed to map. Descriptive text and tourist information on verso. A fine copy of a scarce promotional piece with map of Honolulu from Diamond Head to Kalihi; OCLC/WorldCat lists a handful of copies from 1906 to 1915. The Hawaii Promotion Committee unknown
BAY_01_SH_042307University of Hawaii Art Gallery. Used - Very Good. Wraps are firm text block clean without highlights/underlining or markings. Some rubbing/curling to wraps. Very clean nearly like new. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped. University of Hawaii Art Gallery paperback
1946219301946. Japanese-American WWII Official yearbook of the 1946 graduating class at Punahou School in Honolulu Hawaiʻi which serves as a vivid document of postwar life in a multiracial student body that included a notable presence of Japanese American students. Bound in embossed dark blue leatherette. 8.5" x 11". Heavily illustrated. Published just one year after the conclusion of World War II the yearbook offers a rare and humanizing portrait of Japanese American youth in a period when many of their families were still reeling from forced incarceration surveillance or military service. While Japanese Americans in Hawaiʻi were spared the large-scale incarceration endured by their mainland counterparts they still lived under martial law from 1941 to 1944. During this time thousands were dismissed from government jobs arrested without charge or pressured to prove loyalty-conditions that deeply affected the Nisei generation. Many of the students represented here likely had family members who served in the famed 100th Infantry Battalion or the 442nd Regimental Combat Team the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. Others may have experienced community surveillance loss of employment or restricted freedoms under Hawaiʻi's military government. In this context the 1947 Oahuan is not simply a yearbook-it is a document of recovery dignity and the quiet persistence of young Japanese Americans reclaiming space in public life through scholarship athletics and social visibility. This yearbook reflects a moment of restoration and resilience capturing a cohort of Nisei students reclaiming normalcy through education sports and extracurricular life in a territory that would not become a state for another thirteen years. The 1946 Oahuan features dozens of portrait photographs and detailed bios of Japanese American seniors-including Florence Takahashi Alice Asahina and Raymond Akana-who were active in campus life through clubs like Hui Eleu Ka Punahou and the Camera Club. The prominence of these students across social and athletic leadership roles demonstrates the partial reabsorption of Japanese Americans into Hawaiʻi's civic fabric even as anti-Japanese sentiment lingered nationally. Particularly striking is the equal treatment of Asian and white students a stark contrast to the segregated yearbooks of most mainland U.S. high schools at the time. The layout includes numerous posed group photos framed by Oʻahu's lush volcanic landscape a reminder of the local terrain that shaped these students' hybrid island identities. Minor toning and faint edgewear; overall very good condition. A poignant and timely artifact from a transitional moment in Japanese American history reflecting the endurance and reintegration of Nisei students in a society still reckoning with its wartime policies. unknown
19802080202102702054Honpo shoseki 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: A3 size Honpo shoseki paperback
1995BN174709University of Hawai'i Press 1995. 1995. Softcover. Translation and Interpreting: Bridging East and West : Selected Conference Papers LITERARY STUDIES EAST AND WEST <br/><br/>Translation and Interpreting: Bridging East and West : Selected Conference Papers LITERARY STUDIES EAST AND WEST University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Languages Linguistics and Literature; East-West Center University of Hawai'i Press paperback
1900332947Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Print 1900. 84pp. 8vo. Publisher's stapled tan wrappers. Toning wrappers a bit brittle. 84pp. 8vo. A political pamphlet relating to the election of 1900 -- the first election following admission as a U.S. Territory -- prepared by the central committee of the Republican Party concerning the land commisssion report. Not in Forbes. Scarce. Hawaiian Gazette Print unknown
193975558San Francisco: Colt Press 1939. First edition. One of 486 copies of which this is one of 90 with the Valenti Angelo designs illuminate in colors. Quarto. 86 2 pp. Publisher's mauve boards with spine lettering anc cover device in white. A very clean and fine copy.Written by Marie Louise Burke this item has become somewhat scarce in the trade. From the librray of Francis P. Farquhar. Colt Press hardcover
MA12A-01875Advertiser Publishing Co. Ltd. Collectible - Acceptable. Honolulu HI: Advertiser Publishing Co. Ltd. 1940. 4to. 16pp. Illus. maps. Fair book. Ex-library else Good. Hawaii regional planning Inquire if you need further information. Advertiser Publishing Co., Ltd. unknown
1947219701947. Japanese-American WWII Official yearbook of the 1947 graduating class at Punahou School in Honolulu Hawaiʻi which serves as a vivid document of postwar life in a multiracial student body that included a notable presence of Japanese American students. Bound in embossed dark blue leatherette. 8.5" x 11". Heavily illustrated. Published two years after the end of World War II this year's volume shows the continued presence and leadership of Nisei students despite the hardship faced in school years prior. With numerous signed messages by students-including Japanese American classmates such as W. Kobayashi G. Ogawa and H. Takakuwa-this volume provides rare evidence of social reintegration and interracial camaraderie in the wake of a war that saw Japanese Americans subjected to mass suspicion and surveillance across the United States. While Japanese Americans in Hawaiʻi were spared the large-scale incarceration endured by their mainland counterparts they still lived under martial law from 1941 to 1944. During this time thousands were dismissed from government jobs arrested without charge or pressured to prove loyalty-conditions that deeply affected the Nisei generation. Many of the students represented here likely had family members who served in the famed 100th Infantry Battalion or the 442nd Regimental Combat Team the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. Others may have experienced community surveillance loss of employment or restricted freedoms under Hawaiʻi's military government. In this context the 1947 Oahuan is not simply a yearbook-it is a document of recovery dignity and the quiet persistence of young Japanese Americans reclaiming space in public life through scholarship athletics and social visibility. This particular copy is especially notable for its extensive endpaper inscriptions with dozens of students having signed their names in ink making this a personalized artifact of postwar student life. The volume features photographs of senior portraits student clubs athletic teams and lively candid montages with Nisei students prominently and equitably featured. Sports team photos show a remarkable ethnic diversity with surnames like Kobayashi and Koneshige appearing beside those of white and Hawaiian students. The visual presentation echoes Hawaiʻi's unique multiracial culture and hints at the relative integration of elite schools like Punahou in contrast to the segregation typical of many mainland institutions during this era. Endpapers are completely filled with original signatures. Wear to covers with some cracking at interior hinge and one corner of the pastedown torn. Overall very good condition. A rare signed witness to Nisei perseverance in a racially stratified but uniquely hybrid territory on the cusp of statehood. unknown
192548263Hawaii: n.p. ca. 1925. Oblong 8vo. 36 pp unpaginated. With 26 photos tipped-in 1 real photo postcard of the King Kamehameha Statue Kapaau Hawaii. Photo album with Koa wood covers gilt seal of Hawaii on front cover yarn tied at gutter margin a couple photos w/ minor creasing to corners postcard w/ corner slightly torn some leaves shaken still a nice copy. This charming Jazz Age photo album of a trip to Hawaii includes illustrations of disembarking on a Matson Navigation Company Steamship a visit to a sugar cane factory with railcars loaded with cane setting beside the factory and another image showing the burning of the cane field as well as one of a field hand with machete; Waikiki Beach with Diamond Head in the Background; Japanese workers planting rice in paddies and using oxen for plowing; pineapple & banana plantations; as well as others showing the tour group the homes they stayed and the beautiful natural landscape of the time. n.p., unknown
189874354San Francisco: N.p. 1898. First edition. Oblong folio 18 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches. 136 pp. including numerous photographic illustrations. each page with a floral border in blue. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt cover lettering and frames. decorative endpapers. Some light corner and edge wear but a very good copy of this scarce item. OCLC only locates 7 copies and this cataloger has never seen one.Seems to be mainly a promotional book which attempts to tie together the futures of California and Hawaii. The publication date is significant as the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898. It contains a foreword by Hugh Craig President San Francisco Chamber of Commerce regarding U.S. annexation of Hawaii. There is also a lengthy essay starting on p. 101 entitled "What Is and What May Be: Prospective benefits likely to accrue in the near future. Valuable and interesting statistics concerning the commercial relations of California and Hawaii." The last 15 pp. are taken up with biographies of California's most prominent citizens but the bulk of the book is a general history of the state and quite well written and illustrated. N.p. hardcover
1856332945Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin 1856. First edition. 12pp. 12mo. Publisher's tan wrappers. Foxing and toning. First edition. 12pp. 12mo. "In 1856 a group of special trustees assembled in Boston in order to raise an endowment of $50000 to be invested in the United States for the benefit of the school. This was the pamphlet with which they launched that appeal. It gives a resume of educational endeavors of the mission the founding of Punahou the withdrawal of the American board and the transfer of Lahainaluna to the Hawaiian government. The text describes the need for a school of higher learning for the increasing population 'of foreign origin' and claims that the school is 'essential to the development and continued existence of the Hawaiian nation'" Forbes. Scarce. Forbes 2186 Press of T.R. Marvin unknown
1856332946Boston: Press of T.R. Marvin 1856. First edition. 12pp. 12mo. Publisher's green wrappers. Foxing and toning. First edition. 12pp. 12mo. "In 1856 a group of special trustees assembled in Boston in order to raise an endowment of $50000 to be invested in the United States for the benefit of the school. This was the pamphlet with which they launched that appeal. It gives a resume of educational endeavors of the mission the founding of Punahou the withdrawal of the American board and the transfer of Lahainaluna to the Hawaiian government. The text describes the need for a school of higher learning for the increasing population 'of foreign origin' and claims that the school is 'essential to the development and continued existence of the Hawaiian nation'" Forbes. Scarce. Forbes 2186 Press of T.R. Marvin unknown
192849883Honolulu: Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1928. 1928. First edition. 6 3/4" x " in color pictorial boards showing Hawaiian hut outrigger and scenery. Covers printed in red yellow green and dark green. 228pp. Contents. Photo frontispiece. Photo plates. Text illustrations. Maps 6 large folding including city map of Honolulu. A well-illustrated and informative handbook. Details the history of Hawaii followed by information on Waikiki Beach Honolulu The Pali Manoa Bishop Museum Pearl Harbor Punchbowl Crater Oahu Waipio Valley Maui Kauai the pineapple kingdom on the Island of Lanai the leprosy colony on Molokai etc. Light wear to extremities. Near fine. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1928. hardcover
185228720Boston: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion 1852. Hardcover book. Good overall. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion a 19th century English newspaper/periodical well-known for its woodcut illustrations. The periodical ran from 1851 to 1859.<br /> <br /> This issue has articles and illustrations for Hawai'i Honolulu Cook's Monument and Sandwich Island dance 2pp; Niagara Falls A Valuable Series of Illustrated Views of Niagara Falls 2pp; West Point Second Series of Illustrated Views of West Point New York 2pp; Australia Departure of the Lizzie Webber the first Emigrant Ship to Australia from Sunderland UK 1pp; California A Series of Interesting Sketches and Scenes in California 2pp; Chicago 1pp and many other articles with a complete index. <br /> <br /> Folio 416pp No. 1 Vol. II Jan-June 1852; No. 1 Vol. III Jul-Dec 1852 3/4 black leather and brown cloth boards no title at spine covers detached but present some pages loose ruffled at edges but clean internally and complete. A view into the world in 1852. Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion hardcover
1819176174Tokyo: 統制社. Tosei-sha. Showa 18 1943. 54 x 77cm folding to 27 x 19.5cm pin holes and small loss at upper corners but now neatly secured with archival washi. Some paper undulation and creasing at upper corner. Browning and small holes/chips along the central fold with some neat repairs still a good copy. Japanese language map of Hawaii complete with its original sleeve published by Toseisha as part of a series of maps of Greater East Asia. The main physical map shows the Hawaiian archipelago from Ni'ihai in the northwest to the big island of Hawaii in the southeast insets show the wider area extending as far as Midway Island and a detailed map of the Honolulu and Pearl Harbor areas with road and rail lines district names etc. . 統制社. [Tosei-sha]. unknown
1999mon00009483155/1/1999 12:00:01 AM. spiral_bound. Good. in x in x in. Minor stain on top outer corner of a few pages. Published by Hawaii TMK Service. unknown
1920219786Circa1920s - 1930s. Collection of twenty-six loose photographs and five postcards two in colour. Photograph sizes vary but most are 10 x 14cm a few a bit smaller. The largest photograph measures 17.1 x 27.3cm and while silvered and torn with loss at the lower left corner is a lovely period piece showing a Japanese man driving an early 20th century car and an attractively dressed western-style Japanese woman looking on. In general the photographs show signs of wear some corner tears evidence of removal from albums or silvering but are still a fascinating collection showing people at home at work or on a day out. An interesting collection of photographs and postcards mostly black-and-white with a couple of coloured postcards. They appear to come from the family album of Japanese migrants to Hawaii or California. Most date from the 1920s and 1930s although one postcard was written during a visit to Paris in the 1950s. A few have dates on the back - the oldest being a photo of a smartly-dressed Japanese couple dated 1921 it is difficult to tell whether this was taken in Japan or the USA. <br> <br>Two photographs dated 1929 and 1931 show a Japanese woman with her small daughter - in one image she is shown with an Anglo-European family. There a studio photograph of a Japanese man holding serious-looking photographic equipment suggesting that at least one member of the family was a keen photographer. A particularly interesting shot shows the interior of a shop evidently run by the family selling a wide range of goods from electric fans cooking utensils baskets padlocks and other items. The family seems to have prospered quite well since several photos show outings in their car and a trip to Santa Cruz and the collection also includes a postcard from the famous Hotel Wawona in Yosemite National Park California. Another postwar postcard sent from Paris to the Tsuchiya family in Numazu describes a trip from Japan where the writer apparently stayed with the Tsuchiyas to France via Switzerland. . unknown
19812080202102500727Japanese Books Co. Ltd. 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Japanese Books Co., Ltd. paperback
191451977Honolulu H.T.: n.p. ca. 1914. Seven Real Photo Postcards all printed on split-back CYKO photo postcard stock and stamp box w/ outline CYKO imprint indicating 1906-1915 dating slight edgewear very slight dustsoiling still NF set of images. This scarce group of Real Photo Postcards chronicle some of the floats and events from the 1914 Floral Parade held on the 8th day of Carnival Feb. 21 1914 with the parade forming at Aala Park in the afternoon. The first shows bustling crowds a cleared street men women and families lined up along the street as the parade passes down the corner from McInerny’s Shoe Store with store front and window displays clearly shown in downtown Honolulu. The next series of cards depict the pyramid of children sitting on the Lincoln-Lee Legion float touting their lifelong temperance pledges to abstain from alcohol a large model wooden ship on the Inter-Island Transportation float another showing Lady Liberty on a Spanish War veterans float; along with a RPPC of the Honolulu Fire Department Engine Co. No. 1’s first motorized fire engine what appears to be a 1910 Knox High Pressure Hose Wagon fitted with ladders on the side cab-over configuration and large Brass lamps in front fitted with ladders and firemen riding in the parade. The RPPC of the Iolani Palace lit up at night with floodlights bringing out the architectural details and revealing all of the windows draped in American flags. n.p., unknown
19812080202102900246Honpo shoseki 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. Books: 3 books Honpo shoseki paperback
1887329927Honolulu: Daily Bulletin Steam Print 1887. 204pp. 12mo. Original lettered wrappers. 204pp. 12mo. Includes accounts of the celebration reminiscences and a table of the missionaries sent by the ABCFM and the Seamens' Friend Society with their date and place of birth death arrival return and descendants. Forbes 3909 Daily Bulletin Steam Print unknown
19602162Honolulu Hawaii U.S.A.: Hawaii Visitors Bureau 1960. MAPS TOURIST BROCHURE. Four of the folded tourist brochures measure 6" x 3" and open to 12" x 9". Each is printed on colored paper and features tourist information on one side along with a relief map that includes an inset map of the eight major islands showing their placement in the island chain on the verso. The maps include a compass rose legend elevations major roads towns crops sports facilities hotels and topography featuring volcanic mountains forests parks beaches and more. Light age-toning at some folds the Maui brochure has a ¼" cut on one panel; all near fine.<br /> <br /> The four large brochures with maps are: Hawaii The Big Island; Kauai The Garden Island; Maui The Valley Isle; and Oahu Crossroads of the Pacific. The fifth brochure is smaller and pictures the island of Molokai it measures 6" x 3" and opens to 8 7/8" x 5 7/8". It features a table of distances to various towns and to the airport from Kaunakakai. Dating the maps is based on hotels that opened in the early 1960s and closed in the late 1960s. Hawaii Visitors Bureau unknown
19812080202102708005Honpo shoseki 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B5 size Honpo shoseki paperback
1861332879Honolulu: Paiia e ka poe hoolaha 1861. Illustrated with 7 woodcut illustrations. 36pp. 12mo. Stitched. Toned. Provenance: Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library inked stamp on last page. Illustrated with 7 woodcut illustrations. 36pp. 12mo. Includes a chronological timeline of notable events in Hawaiian history on pages 29-33. Forbes 2417 Paiia e ka poe hoolaha unknown
