Lihue, Hawaii; (1985): Kauai Historical Society. Octavo. 2nd, Revised Edition. vii, 255 pages. Photographs, Index, appendices. This expanded edition tells about the Koloa Plantation in the years following the original publication as well as a section on the Grove Farm Company and the McBryde Sugar Company. A nice folding color... More about Koloa Plantation, 1935-1935
Honolulu, Oah, H.I. S.C. Damon, 1847. Quarto. 8p. A fine copy. Addresses the horrible conditions of the seaman. Besides severe beatings often leading to death, there are those who are demean them. Since the publication also wanted to promote temperance, the evangelical emphasis dealt with that also. It notes the..... More about The Friend, Vol. V, No. 12 (June 15, 1847
Washington, DC: GPO, 1932. Decorated Cloth. 131p. Inscribed by the author who was Executive Assistant of the Interior. The racial background was becoming an issue where Japanese outnumbered native Hawaiians, followed by Filipinos, Portuguese, Caucasians, Chinese, and miscellaneous other races. Much on the early culture, the missionary influence and the... More about Hawaii and Its Race Problem
Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1955. First Edition. Octavo. Bulletin 217. 91pp., photo illustrated. There are no woods tha have demonstrated to be indefinitely immune to the destructive activity of marine borers under ver conditions, somw are known to possess a much higher degree of resistance than other. This book... More about Resistance of Woods to Marine Borers in Hawaiian Waters
Chicago: Privately Printed Lakeside Press, 1947. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. 519 pages, index, illustrations. Includes Twain's appraisal of Hawaii, baseball, Cap. Anson, Spalding. The appendices have material found nowhere else except in archival collections. Bound in brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt over... More about Mark Twain and Hawaii (limited Edition #218 of 1000 Signed copies
Chicago; (1899): Dominion Company. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 681 pages, 160 illustrations and four color maps of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii, etc. A number of books came out that informed Americans about their new possessions. This was the most popular with both the maps and profusely illustrated. It also had... More about Pictorial History of America's New Possessions; the Isthmian Canals, and the Problem of...
New York: Scribners, 1951. First Ediiton. Octavo. First printing. 861 pages. Author's First Book. When this book appeared it, like The Naked and the Dead, spoke of the reality of the soldier's life in World War II. The author was appointed corporal twice and each time was reduced to private... More about From Here to Eternity
Honolulu, (1961): The Kamehameha Schools Press. First Edition. Octavo. First English translation from the original Hawaiian text manuscript written by Hawaiian scholar Samuel M. Kamakau which begins with the history of the great chief, Umi and ends with the death of Kamehameha III in 1854. 440pp. bound in pale green... More about Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii
Wllington; (1972): A.H. And A.W. Reed. First Edition. Quarto. 66 pp. Signed by th author. Illustrated in black and white with 16 marvelous full-color plates tipped-in. This is the story and the picture of Kakahi, the village, the river and the people. Bound in beige cloth lettered in dark brown... More about Kakahi New Zealand
Honolulu: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1925. First Edition. Thick Large Octavo. xvi, 915 pages, profusely illustration. This work expanded the earlier Men of Hawaii to inlcude the scientific, civic and other neglected personalities. As the earliest pioneers from the early period. Besides providing an early history of Hawaii and its rulers, it... More about The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, with Which is Incorporated Volume III Men of Hawaii; an...
Washington, DC: G.P.O., 1884. First Edition. Quarto. [8], vii-xxxii, 473 pages, 85 plates (7 double, 5 folded) illustrations (some in color), maps. The largest part is devoted to Hawaiian volcanoes on pages 80-219. Besides maps of all the major islands, it deals with the major eruptions and its effect on... More about Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey
Honolulu(1902 But Reprinted 1945): Ka Papa Hawaii. Oblong 12 Mo. 285p. Hawaiian Language. Reprinted in 1945 as the congregation of the Kawaiaa'o Church was now filled with servicemen who loved the old hymns which here were often sung in Hawaiian and English. It was at one time the national church... More about Leo Hoonani
San Francisco(1938): Colt Press. First Edition. 12mo. 55 pages : illustrations in woodcuts by Mallette Dean. Text in black and red, 13 x 16 cm. decorative wood covers backed in green cloth, bookseller label by firm of Gelber-Lilienthal Book Shop of San Francisco. (see James D. Hart, Rare Book Stores... More about The Epicure in Hawaii : Tsukiyaki, lawalu fish, Sai Men, Pipikaula, Kanaka Stew, Luau Pig
Honolulu: Advertiser Publishing Co., Ltd., 1936. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 600 sets published for subscribers. A set of the memoirs of Sanford B. Dole and Lorrin A. Thurston published by the Advertising Publishing Company. This set is numbered 187 with the limitation slip mounted on the lining papers of... More about Memoirs of the Hawaiian Revolution (3 Volume Set in Original slipcase
Ann Arbor; (1934): S.C. Andrews. Octavo. 307p. index. 3rd and best edition. Includes new images and engravings. Facsimile documents, illustrations. Cover notes: Pioneer Missionary in Kona, Hawaii. One of the problems was that while the children of the missionaries learned the native languages and often became wonderful translators they also... More about Life and Times of Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston..Pioneer Missionary to the Sandwich Islands
Chicago; (1899): J. S. Ziegler & Co. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 666 pages, color frontispiece, profusely illustrated in black and white. Vivid accounts of personal experiences by officers and men participating in the Spanish American War. Co-authored with J. Hampton Moore. The opening pages provide facsimile signatures of dozens of... More about Reminiscences and Thrilling Stories of the War By Returned Heroes