The Polynesian Family System in Ka-`U, Hawai'i by Handy, E. S. Craighill; Pukui, Mary Kawena - 1976

Rutland, VT, U.S.A.: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1976. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This book, first published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society from 1950 to 1955, and then in a one-volume edition in 1958 in New Zealand, is an account of traditional Hawaiian life based on a review of the literary sources and the recollections of living informants; both co-authors worked at Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu; includes an introduction by Terence Barrow, and a concluding chapter on the History and Ecology of Ka-'u by Elizabeth Green Handy (red cloth with gold lettering, pages very slightly tanned, previous owner's name on front endpaper; pictorial dust jacket with slight edge creasing; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)