Tahiti (signed, with a Full-page Ink sketch of Tahiti)
New York; (1962): Viking. First Edition. Octavo. Item #031871
164 pages. On the first blank, the author has drawn a view of Tahiti and inscribed it to close friends and dated 2008. Tahiti has captivated the imagination of readers for over 200 years. Whether it was the adventures of Captain Cook or the readers of the book and the film "Munity on the Bounty", it was this place that haunted Gauguin, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific". Here is the seaman, artists, devotee of bull fighting and writer whose love for Tahiti made him both a resident and a return person to absorb the rich culture and food, before returning to San Francisco to create the nightclub "El Matador". Here he has provided many photographs, a guide for travelers, and a bibliography. A very good copy bound in brown cloth ruled in gilt, spine lettering gilt, orange endpapers, just a touch of fading along upper and lower edges, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket light wear to corners, and upper edge of rear panel.
Price: $225.00