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Middle Son: A Novel
by Iida, Deborah
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1996. Hardcover. 228p., hardcover in dust jacket, 5.25x8.25 inches, very good. First edition. Signed and inscribed on the full title page.
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$18.00
The Speed of Darkness; Stories
by Morales, Rodney
Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1988. Paperback. 177p., paperback, 6x9 inches. Small stain on bottom edge of text block, else very good. Special double issue of BAMBOO RIDGE, #s 39 and 40, Summer and Fall, 1988.
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$25.00
Life In the Sandwich Islands
by CHEEVER, Rev. Henry T
New York: Published By A.S. Barnes & Co, 1851. First edition. Octavo. With numerous black and white engravings throughout. Full green cloth, pictorially gilt-stamped on front cover, gilt-stamped spine, blindstamped on rear cover. Slight rubbing to top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, fine. HBS 66621. $300.
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$300.00
THE MISSIONARY HERALD FOR THE YEAR 1821
Boston: The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1821. First edition. Full Leather. Good. First edition. Full Leather. 8 7/8'' x 5 1/2''. 400pp. Endpapers are foxed. Pages toned. Some minor worming to back paste down. Inner hinges starting, but still a tight copy. Wear to covers.
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$450.00
Sachie: a daughter of Hawaii
by Saiki, Patsy Sumie; illustrations by Norman Nagai
Honolulu: Kisaku, 1977. Paperback. 143p., wraps worn and soiled, old price sticker on front wrap, else good condition. Inscribed and signed by the Japanese American author on the title page.
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$15.00
Sharing Secrets
by Cobb-Keller, Nora Okja and Carrie O'Connor, editors
Honolulu: The Hawai'i State Committee on Family Violence, 1993. Paperback. 107p., wraps, illus., wraps lightly worn, else very good condition. Anthology of poetry, stories, and illustrations about domestic violence. All the authors are women, and many are Asian American.
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$15.00
The Island of Kauai / Kauai The Garden Isle / 1984 First Edition
by (photographers) Ed Cooper, Loye Guthrie, John Jones, Allan Seiden, R.A. Young
Honolulu: Hawaiian Service, Inc., 1984. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine; quite pristine. See scans. Honolulu: Hawaiian Service, Inc. / 1984. First Edition. Octavo, wraps, 32 pp. Fine, crisp and beautiful. From 1984, a promotional little book full of sumptuous color photographs of Kauai, the little jewel. One page of introduction and not a whole lot more text; that's all that's needed. Photography by Ed Cooper, Loye Guthrie, John Jones, Allan...
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$37.50
Humanity Above Nation: The Impact of Manjiro and Heco on American and Japan
Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii / The Joseph Heco Society of Hawaii, 2003. Pamphlet. vii, 39p., stapled wraps, 5.25x8.5 inches, rear wrap heavily worn, sticker scar on rear wrap, staples rusted, else good condition. Both John Manjiro and Joseph Heco were born in Japan and moved to America after being shipwrecked and rescued by American ships. Heco was the first Japanese person to be naturalized as a U.S. citizen.
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$12.00
Two scrapbooks documenting the life of Ululani Franklin Lemon
Honolulu. Two folio albums, 16½" x 14½" and 14½" x 12¼", about 200 pp. total, containing ephemera, news clippings, and photographs. Ululani Franklin Lemon - "Uncle Nani" - was born in Honolulu in 1881 to a naturalized Canadian father and a Hawaiian mother. He lived his entire life in Honolulu and died there in 1950. In 1902 he graduated Kamehameha School for Boys as a scholarship student. He had flourished during his school years, establishing himself as a star athlete in gymnastics, track and field...
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$4,025.00
1911-1935 Hawaii photograph collection: Schofield Barracks, harbors and bridges, Hilo Post Office, China Clipper, railroad etc.
by [Unkwn.]
[Honolulu, Hilo, and Laupahoehoe, Hawaii, 1911-1935]. 50 photographs, some captioned or annotated, ranging in size from 2¾ x 4½ inches to 5 x 7 inches. Several images removed from albums. Overall, very good. Fifty Hawaiian photographs with themes emphasizing military life, transportation, and engineering. Inventory • Schofield Barracks near Honolulu. (22 photos). Soldiers on the way to camp or marching; tanks, searchlight trucks and other military vehicles; portable artillery and a mammoth...
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$375.00
The Korean frontier in America. Immigration to Hawaii, 1896-1910
by Patterson, Wayne
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. 8vo, pp. xii, 274, [2]; gray cloth boards; boards and inside of dust jacket a little foxed, two leaves dogeared, else near fine. "With the compliments of the Korea Foundation" stamp on endpaper.
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$34.50
History and general views of the Sandwich Islands' mission
by Dibble, Sheldon, Rev
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1839. First edition, 12mo, pp. 268; orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends a little cracked and bare spots neatly inpainted; modest foxing; old library label removed from spine; old manuscript ex-libris on blank flyleaf reading "No. 159 David Whitcombs Apprentice Library, Templeton, 1848; a good, sound copy. Forbes 1141: "The text contains two parts. The first two chapters are on the early history of the Islands up to the visit of Captain Cook. Chapter III,...
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$747.50
Shoal of Time A History of the Hawaiian Islands
by Daws, Gavan
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Unmarked. ; Book Description; Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds. Covers are square with minor wear. Ships Safe and Fast. Gavan Daws' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal of Time emerges as the most readable of all Hawaiian histories.; 8.90 X 5.90 X 1.20 inches; 512 pages DC4.
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$11.00$8.80
Social Process in Hawai'i: A Reader; Second Edition
by Manicas, Peter, ed
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Paperback. xviii, 256p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good.
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$18.00
Hawaii:The past, present, and future of its island-kingdom
by Manley Hopkins
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Hawaii:The past, present, and future of its island-kingdom.
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$55.93
Living Treasures of Hawai'i: 25th Anniversary of the Selections of Outstanding Persons as Honored by the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai'i
by Stone, Scott C.S
Honolulu: Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai'i, 2000. Hardcover. 155p., hardcover in dust jacket, 11.25x11.5 inches, very good. First edition, first printing. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs and portraits of the honorees. Starting in 1976, the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai'i has chosen residents of Hawai'i to honor as "Living Treasures". The program was inspired by Japan's Living National Treasure awards, and past honorees have included figures such as the architect and artist Isamu Noguchi...
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$30.00
GETTING TO KNOW HAWAII
by Laschever, Barnett D
New York: Coward-McCain, , 1959. Book. Illus. by Haris Petie. Fine. Hardcover. 9th Printing. Juvenile Non-Fiction, black and white illustrations by Petie. Book is in unread condition. In publisher's reinforced binding and therefore issued without a dust jacket. .
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$26.00
Of Andagi and Sanshin: Okinawan Culture in Hawai'i
by Adaniya, Ruth, Alice Njus and Margaret Yamate, editors
Honolulu: Hui O Laulima, 1988. Paperback. ix, 112p., wraps, illus., wraps shelfworn and sunned else very good condition.
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$50.00
One Summer In Hawaii - 1891 First Edition
by Helen Mather
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1891. Hardcover. First edition 1/2 red cloth with grey cloth boards, with tropical island and palm tree design. Spine a bit faded, with all gilded writing and palm tree well readable. Bump to the bottom of the spine. Cover edges with slight shelf wear, Binding solid, pages and illustrations clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 298 pages. overall very good Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US.
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$245.00
O mea ua iloaina: I oti faafuase'i o tamaiti laiti
n.p.: Hawaii SIDS Information and Counseling Program, [198-?]. Pamphlet. Four-page brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Samoan-language overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, adapted from Hawaiian Department of Health materials by Dr. Lulumafuie Fiatoa.
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$15.00
Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal
by Gulick, J. T. [John Thomas]
Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1905. First Edition. Very good. A late work summarizing Gulick's views on divergent evolution with what might today be called "contingency": "members of the same species, exposed to the same environment in isolated groups, will often arrive at divergent methods of dealing with the environment." He goes on to conclude that the assumption that "human progress is ruled by an external fate is certainly contrary to fact" (from the preface). At the end of the preface,...
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$180.00
A history of the Episcopal church in Hawaii
by Otani, Andrew N
Minneapolis: Church of the Good Samaritan, 1989. Paperback. II, vii, 68p., wraps lightly soiled, ownership stamp on last page, else very good condition.
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$15.00
MAUI-FULL-OF-TRICKS
by Thompson, Vivian
CA: Golden Gate, 1970 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Legend of Old Hawaii. Hard Cover. Illus by Earl Thollander. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. FINE in NEAR FINE dustjacket. 94 pgs, reinforced cloth. Adventures of one of the most popular figures in Hawaiian folklore are woven together into a consecutive story..
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$30.00
