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1819332862Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong 1819. 40 xvi pp. 8vo. Disbound. Foxing. 40 xvi pp. 8vo. "A sermon preached at the ordination of two missionaries just prior to their departure as members of the first 'company' of missioanries . to the Hawaiian Islands" Forbes. Includes "Instructions from the Prudential Committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Rev. Hiram Bingham and the Rev. Asa Thurston and others . Members of the Mission to the Sandwich Islands" in the rear. Shaw & Shoemaker 48291; Forbes 499; Sabin 33794 Samuel T. Armstrong unknown
0332036812.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
Broché. 128 pages. 17x27cm.
186657404London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1866. 16mo. 188 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. numerous woodcut engraved plates. Recent three-quarter calf over marbled boards raised bands gilt decoration on spine red & gilt morocco spine label bookplate on front pastedown of W.A. Foster ownership markings of J. Carrick Murray dated 1882 and binder’s tick on rear pastedown for Atkinsons Salisbury. First edition of this work intended to provide background knowledge to the British public and SPCK members following the visit of Queen Emma of Hawaii 1836-1885 following her visit to Queen Victoria for an audience but also granted the rare honor of spending the night with the British royal family at Windsor Castle. Drawing from Cook’s voyages in-house journals of the SPCK the writings of Manley Hopkins and Missions to the Heathen the author details Cook’s voyages to Hawaii customs an interesting section on the Hawaiian language and details the plummeting population caused by British and other foreign seamen bringing smallpox measles dysentery influenza and venereal disease to the islands. Queen Emma & Queen Victoria maintained a long close correspondence with one another after Victoria had agreed to be Godmosther to Prince Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Leiopapa a Kamehameha 1858-1862 followed in 1863 by the death of King Kamehameha IV. See: Rhoda Hackler “My Dear Friendâ€: Letters of Queen Victoria and Queen Emma The Hwaiian Journal of History vol. 22 1988 pp. 101-130 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, hardcover
Features: Nice color Pepsi ad on page 3; Merrily we Probe Along - Ralph Schoenstein talks about the analysis fad and a nation of psychic Peeping Toms; The World Needs the Truth about America - RFK proposes a plan to sell U.S. Ideals on an open market; Water-Hole Wonderland - man-made Lake Texoma; Hawaii's Hustling Shepherd - Rev. Abraham Akaka of Hawaii infuses new vigor into the Christian ministry; Don't Tell Me About Diets - Jockey Eric Guerin reveals the dieting truths he has learned during a 15-year struggle to avoid eating himself out of business; The Many Moods of Robert Mitchum - an exclusive account of the turbulent career and times of Hollywood's rugged nonconformist - many great black and white photos; Luxurious Mountaintop - the Burgenstock in Switzerland; Frank Robinson Comes of Age; Grand Tour for a College Combo - the Route 2 Tooters junket through Europe bartering their jazz music for a summer's fun. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Waste in the world of diplomacy - Ellis O. Briggs says the game of musical chairs impairs our ambassadors' effectiveness; Cuban Prisoner Exchange - James Donovan explains the inside story of how freedom was won for the Bay of Pigs captives; Americans - at least 21 languish in Castro prisons - 2 photos of JFK addressing the Cuban issue; Hawaii - where progress is the big problem; The Beverly Hillbillies TV Show - proving that corn is evergreen; It Hurts to Run - Runner Jim Beatty - his greatest foes are fear, fatigue, agony; "Ask Americans to Pray for Us" - Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski tells of his newest conflicts with Poland's Communist rulers, his efforts to avert bloodshed, his struggle to uphold religious freedom; Innocent's Grim Ordeal - Airman Gerald Martin Anderson is accused of murder in Mountain Home, Idaho - a year later, it became obvious that Air Force investigators simply picked a victim. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1528541510.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0266241506.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0824803906.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
192960866Honolulu H.T.: Hawaii Tourist Bureau 828 Fort St. January 1929. 8vo. 32 pp. printed throughout in yellow & black colour & yellow-tinted photo illustrations double-page colour map as centerfold. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art of Hawaiian girl w/ lei on front cover couple next to outrigger on back cover minor shelfwear slight creasing still VG- copy. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon promotional brochure to Hawaii at the end of the 1920’s. Of particular interest is the cover artwork by John Melville Kelly 1879-1962 a California artist and sculptor who traveled to Hawaii in the 1920’s and chose to stay with his wife and he championed native Hawaiian depictions in etchings aquatints and promotional materials. Hawaii Tourist Bureau, 828 Fort St., paperback
192348749Honolulu HI: Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd. 1923. Tall thick 8vo. xvi 915 1 pp. 100s of photo illusts. Dark-brown embossed & decorated cloth gilt embossed lettering on front cover & spine minor soiling & edgewear to fore-edges of textblock some soiling to endpapers still G copy. First edition of this very scarce volume in the Men of Hawaii series which offers a well documented and illustrated biographical history of the influential founders and famous Hawaiians. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd., hardcover
USA, anni '30, 8vo br. pp. 96 con ill. n.t.
Yellow octavo ; 319 p : illus ; 23 cm Both authors signed and inscribed title page // Hawaii -- Ferries -- Environmental aspects -- Politics. Tourism industry in Hawaii.
196627392<p>Young Scott Books New York 1966 HBDJ 1966 1st Edition VG/FINE- AS-IS The EX-Library book has a pocket on the back and a FEW SMALL MARKS mark . The story pages are not marked. Pages are unmarked; the illustrations are wonderful done in silver gold blue and brown on white paper. Price is not clipped. 48 PGS Color cloth Illustrated boards Match DJ Illustration have some Tape Residue at edges cvr DJ Protected Clear Mylar This is a story of a Mexican ghost. Mexican ghosts follow their customs and styles in ghosting. He doesn't moan groan rattle old chains or crunch on bones and skulls. He doesn't want to scare you; as a matter of fact they are afraid of people. The great thing about this ghost is that if you ask him right he will lead you to buckets of gold! Binding has shelf wear on the bottom edges and both spine ends. .The story of a Mexican Ghost named Teodoro and his adventures in his life with gold and with those who follow him in their earthly pursuit of it. The value of life and living and how greed of Gold Fever and what is really imporant in life is the story. A Mexican folktale of greed the Paris-born and trained artist CHARLOT who--drawn by his heritage on his mother's side moved to Mexico and worked as assistant to muralist Diego Rivera. Ex-library book has a pocket on the back and a mark on the title page. Unique illustrations as they are around the page edges instead of the usual format. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Jean Charlot Prof. at University of Hawaii. Ex-Library.</p> Young Scott Books, New York hardcover
195130803Honolulu: The Kamehameha Schools 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good . Decorated hardbound octavo. 249 pp. Illustrated by Richard Goings. A collection of legends of the Hawaiian Islands. A very attractive copy. The Kamehameha Schools hardcover books
194656608Hilo T.H.: The Hilo Tribune-Herald 1946. Tall 8vo. 14 double-page leaves unnumbered. printed on coated magazine stock reproducing Hilo Tribune-Herald front pages with many illustrations 1 large folding plate showing the devastation from the tsunami. Photo-illustrated softcovers wraparound photo cover art minor shelfwear rubbing still VG copy w/ original printed mailing envelope from the library of Inez Turner Angus 1896-1990 and her daughter Ramona Angus Bennett 1924-2017 who originally owned the Montana Agate Shop a Texaco service station as well as the “Honeymoon Cabins†motel in Terry MT before and during World War II which led to Yellowstone National Park and the Custer Battlefields. First edition of this piece chronicling the devastation to Hawaii following the massive April 1 1946 7.4 earthquake near Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands off of Alaska. Hawaii located 2400 miles south of the epicenter was struck by a 32-60 foot tsunami wave resulting in 96 deaths and prompted the U.S. to establish the Seismic SeaWave Warning System in 1948. The Hilo Tribune-Herald, paperback
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in ports of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman, Matthew Armstrong, Nanaimo, British Columbia The Woman of the Island - The extraordinary experience that befell E.N. McMullan in the remote interior of Brazil, showing that even the wildest savages have some concpetion of the white man's abilities and a very lively sense of gratitute; Amid the Eternal Fires - Volcanologist Professor T.A. Jaggar has lived on the brink of the Kilauea volcano for fourteen years - article with photos; The Wishing Pipe - a tragic story of peril underground by C.J. Harrell, one of the best placer- and hard-rock miners in the Western U.S.; East Beyond the East - a photo-illustrated visit to Ternate, gem of the Spice Islands, or Moluccas; A Battle With Wolves - a trapper's nighmare with black wolves in the Far North; In the Dark - Capt. Raymond Kelsall, of Toro, Uganda was dragged out of his bed at 2am by a lion!; Exporting in Central Brazil - Part II - A small expedition left England in 1921 to study the mighty Amazon forests and her wild Indian Tribes - article with photos; The Four Madmen - Frank James, Marcus Curtis, John Hawkins and John Coffey break out of Matteawan Insane Asylum in Beacon, New York; The Pelican Women of Lake Tchad - article with photos of the monstrous wooden discs inserted in their lips; The Three Angleteers - Part I - Three bored English lads set out across Europe and experience many troubles and adventures; My Turtle - Louis A. Sabine's disastrous voyage aboard the yawl Etta May promised a rich return but left him more poor than when he started; Four Years in Liberia - Trader Percy H. Newman describes some odd experiences in the little-known interior of the Black Republic of Liberia, in parts of which he was the first white man the natives had ever seen; A Navajo "Yebitchai" - an unusual nine-day festival connected with the healing of the sick - article with photos; Over the Dam - Night Watchman Matthew Armstrong's terrible ordeal in the woods near Nanaimo, British Columbia; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Part XI, "of about 24", featuring Australasia and the Pacific; Egypt. Circa 1910. Numerous photographs. One colour plate. Paginated 321 to 352. Staple bound, with rusty staples, front cover half detached with tear midway on joint edge.
1996SONG9810226837World Scientific Publishing Company 1996-08-01. hardcover. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. World Scientific Publishing Company hardcover
1953712139PN. New. 1953. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1332762395.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0656041560.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
187474143Honolulu: Samuel Damon 1874. First edition. Thirteen copies each one being a large sheet folded to make 4 pages 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Comprising pp. 40-48. Masthead with two vignettes. Scattered light foxing but very clean overall. No tears.Samuel Cheney Damon 1815 –1885 was an early missionary to Hawaii pastor of the Seamen's Bethel Church chaplain of the Honolulu American Seamen's Friend Society and editor of the monthly newspaper The Friend. The newspaper was not solely concerned with religious matters but served the community at large for general news of the Islands with sections such as "Important to Navigators of the Pacific" "New Explorations in Micronesia" "Marine Journal Port of Honolulu S.I." and numerous ads for local businesses. [Samuel Damon] unknown
