Search Results: Titles starting with U from Rare Books Honolulu

Honolulu, HI: Published by the authors, 1980. Softcover. like new/no dj as issued. Published by the authors, 1980. First Edition. 3 pages, numerous photos and a few schematics. Trade paperback. The first book on the history of the 'ukulele, In like new condition, rare. limited edition. Despite its iconic status in Hawaiian music, the 'ukulele was never the subject of a book until the 1979 centennial of the arrival of the Madeiran machete (the immediate ancestor of the 'ukulele) in Hawai'i prompted the Bishop Museum exhibit and this book. The driving force behind both was Leslie Nunes (1916-98) of Waialua, a great-grandson of Manuel Nunes (1843-1922), one of the three original Madeiran 'ukulele makers in Hawai'i. Leslie Nunes assembled an important collection of early Hawaiian 'ukulele and other instruments, some of which are featured in this book and served as the basis for the Bishop exhibition.

New York: Putnam's & Sons, 1880. hardcover. very good/no dj as issued. Putnam's & Sons, ca. 1880. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". -- UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN: An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior...Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé/ -- Two volumes in one (407 and 392 pages) : Original green cloth in Mylar cover,with gilded front decoration and spine title in very good condition. Only very light shelfwear to binding, endpapers with Japanese flower design, Small name stamp on front end paper, half title and dedication page. Pages slightly browned. many illustration in text. Rear folding map; slightly toned, short closed tear (sl affecting map edge of image). Later or There was also an edition published in 2 separate volumes. In all very good condition.

Published by the officers and crew, no year. Hardcover. Good. THE SUPER RARE ORIGINAL VINTAGE BOOK - NOT A DVD!! Published by the officers and crew as a record of this 6-month deployment of the aircraft-carrier to the Mediterranean Sea in 1956 with the 6th fleet. Gibraltar, Italy, France Greece. Large hardcover (8X10) with 240 pages of b/w photographs and brief descriptions Tight binding, shelf wear to edges of binding, pages clean, No dj (don't know if it was published with one) Ships from Hawaii.

Tokyo: Privately Printed, 1933. First, lid. edition. Japanese style binding. good. Kiyonobu, Moronobu, Moroshige, Toyonobu, Masanobu, Kiyomitsu.and others. Tokyo, 41 Sakurayama, Nakano, 1933. text in English. in-8 (31 x 23 cm); 122 pages + 93 plates dfc No. 168 of an edition of 1,000 copies, 500 for Japan and 500 for England and the United States. Book illustrated with 93 plates on coated paper in black and in color, reproducing the works of Kiyonobu the first, Kiyonobu the second, Moronobu, Moroshige, Toyonobu, Masanobu, Kiyomitsu...; and a color fold-out frontispiece on brown paper. Preceded by 122 pages of explanatory text. Guards shown in black. Copy bound in the Japanese style, the text sheets are lined on Japanese paper. Under blue canvas cover with three flaps closing with two ivory fasteners. Condition: faded back cover. Solid volume. Color plates have protective tissue. Water-stain on back-cover and last few pages of plates, resulting also in light curling of last few plates. Some… Read More

Hardcover. New. Hardcover New This book in German and English presents the photographic works of three phtotographers from Munich (Alfons Himmelreich, Efrem Ilani and Jakob Rosne) who emigrated in the 1930s to Palestine In the following years they documented the interesting development of Palestine/Israel from their perspective as immigrants This book accompanied an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Munich, Germany in 2010.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1858. Hardcover. Good. Good. Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, 1858 (Smithsonian Institution), 78p., 76 steelengraved plates by i.a. PICART, Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. actually almost very good considering its age., Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, (Smithsonian Institution), n.d. (1858), 78p., 76 steelengr. plates by i.a. PICART, contemporay. half leather w. gilt spine, 4to. - Restorations to spine. binding tight, slight browning to page edges. All pages and plates very clean. Plate 14 of a total 76 plates is missing (photocopy of page laid in) Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. Ships from Hawaii with Priority mail within US, not slow media mail.