Song of Waitaha – The Histories of a Nation by Barry Brailsford

Honolulu: Bishop Museum Pr, 1975. First edition thus. Trade softcover. Combined edition, 3 volumes in one. Published Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1975, first printing. Thick, small 4to. wrappers, 7 1/4" x 10 3/4" xvii+454pp; vi+342pp; ii+88pp., profusely illustrated with b/w photos, drawings and reproductions. Definitive monograph, originally published 1936-1938 in three volumes: Vol.1. The Canoes of Polynesia, Fiji & Micronesia. Vol.2. The Canoes of Melanesia, Queensland and New Guinea. Vol 3. Definition of Terms, General Survey, and Conclusions. A very good, clean, attractive copy. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

John Murray. London. 1889. Second edition. Octavo. xviii, (1), 455pp. 14 coloured maps (five folding), numerous illus. Original blue cloth, decorative gilt to front board and spine. Rubbed and bumped to extremities. Upper hinge tender. Lightly toned.
Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852-1933) Geographer, Botanist and Zoologist. A detailed account of "the less known lands and islands": Formosa, Liu-Kiu, Kamschatka, Bering, Cagayan Sulu, Sulu, Borneo, Labuan, Brunei, Sumbawa, Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, Amboina, Banda, etc

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 each volume. Originally written for joint serial publication with Lorrin A. Thurston's memoirs in the Honolulu Advertiser. Thurston's chapter begins with Jack London's arrival on his yacht Snark in 1907. Thurston provides interesting details about London's fixed writing routine, his despising of what today would be called "political correctness" on the racial issues inherent in Hawaii, followed by Thurston's defense. The set is comprised of: Vol. I, Writings of Lorrin A. Thurston, 166p. index; Vol. II. Lorrina A. Thurston, Memoirs of the Hawaiian Revolution, 664p.; Vol. III Sanford Dole, Memoirs of the Hawaiian Revolution, 188p. index. From the controversy of Queen Lili'uokalani's authorship… Read More

Volume 1 of Burney's 5 volume history of the exploration of the Pacific Ocean. 1803. Volume is ex-library copy with library stamps of University of California dated 1870 and found on title page, p.57 and p.131. Soundly bound in modern blue buckram. Collation: Title page, xii, [8], 391 with 5 maps and modern end blanks. Overall condition is good with some condition issues. All repairs described are professionally done. Title page rehinged. Frontis map and map opposite p. 277 are original. Frontis map is rehinged. 3 maps bound at end are professional full size reproductions (image of California map is provided). Appendix (pgs. 385-391) is also professional reproduction. Page 20 has closed tear repaired with rice paper. Water stain at head of spine waxes and wanes on pages 121-146, and 193-249; occasionally encroaching on text. Ink stain margin of p.220-21. Stain of indeterminate origin penetrating margins of p.273-78. On the plus side: binding is sound, volume is (now) complete, pages are wide margined… Read More

John W. Amerman. New York. 1864. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 5.8 inches). 80pp. Large fold out map of the main steam ship lines of the world with the proposed American lines, at the rear. Tan paper wraps, printed in black. Circular blind stamp of Bibliotheque de Deep sea salvage on the title page. Front cover has 'Editor of the Herald' written in ink across the top. Edges rubbed and bumped with some loss to the bottom of the spine. Corners creased and chipped a little but overall a very good example of this scarce Civil War time publication. Only one copy located on Worldcat, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

New Zealand: Heinemann, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. First Edition First Printing. 122 pages, plastic cover over dust wrapper, owner name on fixed front flyleaf and dedication on back of free front fly leaf.

Christchurch, New Zealand: Pegasus, 1958. Second. Cloth. Good/Good. Janet Frame's first novel, Owls Do Cry draws on many details of her own life. Her childhood was shadowed by poverty, sickness, and accidental death, and shaped by the power of the spoken and written word. At twenty-one, she was institutionalized in a mental hospital and later saved from a threatened lobotomy only by her achievement as a writer. Owls Do Cry explores the life of the Withers family in a New Zealand town "halfway between the South Pole and the equator." Poverty and a reputation for strangeness exclude the Withers from the hollow conventions and artifacts of suburban life. They do not possess revolving clotheslines, walkie talkie dolls or uncomfortable chairs, yet the children's lives are rich in "wonder currency:" rhymes and rituals, play and dreams. Twenty years later, this currency is subsumed for each of them into vivid, haunted inner lives. Owls Do Cry lyrically evokes "the private and lonely night, with a room of… Read More

John Murray. London. 1889. Second edition. Octavo. xviii, (1), 455pp. 14 coloured maps (five folding), numerous illus. Original blue cloth, decorative gilt to front board and spine. Rubbed and bumped to extremities. Upper hinge tender. Lightly toned.
Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1852-1933) Geographer, Botanist and Zoologist. A detailed account of "the less known lands and islands": Formosa, Liu-Kiu, Kamschatka, Bering, Cagayan Sulu, Sulu, Borneo, Labuan, Brunei, Sumbawa, Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, Amboina, Banda, etc

Volume 1 of Burney's 5 volume history of the exploration of the Pacific Ocean. 1803. Volume is ex-library copy with library stamps of University of California dated 1870 and found on title page, p.57 and p.131. Soundly bound in modern blue buckram. Collation: Title page, xii, [8], 391 with 5 maps and modern end blanks. Overall condition is good with some condition issues. All repairs described are professionally done. Title page rehinged. Frontis map and map opposite p. 277 are original. Frontis map is rehinged. 3 maps bound at end are professional full size reproductions (image of California map is provided). Appendix (pgs. 385-391) is also professional reproduction. Page 20 has closed tear repaired with rice paper. Water stain at head of spine waxes and wanes on pages 121-146, and 193-249; occasionally encroaching on text. Ink stain margin of p.220-21. Stain of indeterminate origin penetrating margins of p.273-78. On the plus side: binding is sound, volume is (now) complete, pages are wide margined… Read More

John W. Amerman. New York. 1864. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.9 x 5.8 inches). 80pp. Large fold out map of the main steam ship lines of the world with the proposed American lines, at the rear. Tan paper wraps, printed in black. Circular blind stamp of Bibliotheque de Deep sea salvage on the title page. Front cover has 'Editor of the Herald' written in ink across the top. Edges rubbed and bumped with some loss to the bottom of the spine. Corners creased and chipped a little but overall a very good example of this scarce Civil War time publication. Only one copy located on Worldcat, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.