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San Francisco: The Book Club of California. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. Publisher's oversized oblong cloth, spine label. Fine condition. The plain paper DJ in mylar is lightly soiled/edgeworn with a tear/crease to spine head, and the title pencilled to spine. Limited to 400 copies. ; quarto .
A Pictorial Tour of Hawaii 1850 - 1852 by Forbes, David W. ; Forward by Richard H. Dillon - 1991: Watercolors, Paintings, & Drawings by James Gay Sawkins
by Forbes, David W. ; Forward by Richard H. Dillon
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A Pictorial Tour of Hawaii 1850 - 1852: Watercolors, Paintings, & Drawings by James Gay Sawkins
by Forbes, David W. ; Forward by Richard H. Dillon
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1991. Limited edition of 400 copies. A Fine Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued.
Tan linen over boards, white spine label printed in black, title-page printed in black and brown, with a map frontispiece. Printed on mohawk superfine paper. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Contains forty-three numbered reproductions (three-fold-out) in colour, oblong quarto, 12.5 by 9.5 inches [126] pp. With prospectus; writing on inside blank page. Limited edition of 400 copies
Laid-in press review. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press; Typesetting by Francesca Stauffacher. An indispensable and lovely supplement to the historical literature of the Hawaiian Islands.
Tan linen over boards, white spine label printed in black, title-page printed in black and brown, with a map frontispiece. Printed on mohawk superfine paper. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Contains forty-three numbered reproductions (three-fold-out) in colour, oblong quarto, 12.5 by 9.5 inches [126] pp. With prospectus; writing on inside blank page. Limited edition of 400 copies
Laid-in press review. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press; Typesetting by Francesca Stauffacher. An indispensable and lovely supplement to the historical literature of the Hawaiian Islands.
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- Edition Limited edition of 400 copies
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- Publisher The Book Club of California
- Place of Publication San Francisco
- Date Published 1991
- Keywords Oceania; Hawaii
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A Pictorial Tour of Hawaii, 1850-1852: Watercolors, Paintings, & Drawings by James Gay Sawkins
by Forbes, David W. , Foreword by Richard H. Dillon
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A PICTORIAL TOUR OF HAWAII, 1850-1852: Watercolors, Paintings, & Drawings by James Gay Sawkins
by Forbes, David W. Foreword by Richard H. Dillon
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San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. As new. 125 pp., illustrated with a colored map and 43 color plates (3 are double-page folding plates); oblong quarto (12.25 x 9.25 inches), original tan cloth with paper spine label. Views of old Hawaii by a talented artist who visited the islands as a tourist and has been largely overlooked by posterity. None of the images reproduced here have been previously published. Designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press. Edition of 400 copies printed by Phelps/Schaefer Press.
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