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Honolulu,: University of Hawaii Press,, (1988.). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. Three long stories about Japanese-American nisei sugar plantation laborers in Hawaii, told with some use of pidgin. Afterword by Franklin S. Odo.

Kihei, HI:: Pacific Printing & Publishing,, (2004.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in illustrated boards, no dust jacket as issued.. First printing. A small green turtle plays with his friends under the sea, until they discover a large sea turtle (hunu) has been trapped in a fishing line. Bilingual edition with the simple text in English and Hawaiian, illustrated with water colors. Punctuation guide, glossary. Oblong format. Unpaginated.

Honolulu: : Tongg Publishing Co.,, 1942.. Hardcover -. Good overall in green cloth with black lettering (corners somewhat bumped, offsetting to endpapers, but contents are clean) . First thus. Originally published in 1941 as "American Polynesia, this revised and enlarged edition adds 11 chapters on the northwestern Hawaiian islands and one on Wake Island, as well as an expanded bibliography. These islands in the Central Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Samoa were mostly uninhabited, and were exploited for guano in the 19th century, but with the rise of air travel and especially the war with Japan in the Pacific they took on added importance. Illustrated with photographs and many maps. Index. 253 pp

New York:: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,, 1971.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in very good+ dust jacket (short closed tear to dj.). First printing. 'A witty, insider's view of the Hawaiian Establishment - who is who and who runs what in America's island paradise.' Map endpapers. Index. 284 pp.

New York:: William Sloane Associates,, 1948.. Hardcover -. Good only, lacking the dj (wear to covers, contents very good).. Hardcover. A classic account of the exploitation of the Pacific Islands by the white man. 541 pgs, inlcudes 30 pages of sources, index, illustrations. Map endpapers.

New York:: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,, 1971.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. 'A witty, insider's view of the Hawaiian Establishment - who is who and who runs what in America's island paradise.' Map endpapers. Index. 284 pp.

Honolulu,: Mutual Publishing, (2002). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback. Includes many small maps, illustrated with drawings and photographs. Glossary, bibliography. 187 pp.

New York:: Scribner's,, 1966.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-school library with signs of a pocket on front endpaper, discard stamp on title page, but overwise in very good to near fine condition in illustrated library binding. Many pages still unopened, indicating that this copy has never been read.. First printing. Includes many woodcuts by the author, based on her experiences during a stay in the Hawaiian islands. Includes a 16 page glossary,

Honolulu,: University of Hawaii Press,, 1984.. Hardcover -. Near fine in a very good dustjacket (some short closed tears to the dj.). First thus- originally published in 1966. Includes many woodcuts by the author, based on her experiences during a stay in the Hawaiian islands. 16 page glossary . A very attractive book.

Honolulu,: Bamboo Ridge Press,, 1994.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. The author's first book, which collects twelve stories written "from the soul of immigrant Hawai'i." A special double edition of Bamboo Ridge, the Hawai'i Writers Quarterly, #61 & 62). Illustrated with black and white drawings by Jinja Kim. 164 pp.

New York:: Horizon,, 1963.. Very good in a very good- dustjacket (some wear to dj along front fold.). First printing. The story of an American judge appointed to serve in the native courtsof the US Trust Territory islands, and of his and his wife's experiences travelling and living in the South West Pacific. Map endpapers. 286 pages.

Kilauea Kauai, Hawaii:: Royal Pakala Press, , (1990). First edition -. Very good.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Historical fiction set mostly on Kauai. Cover painting by Steven Sands. 149 pp plus epilogue.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1997). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Second novel by this highly praised young Hawaiian writer, the story of a ragtag group of orphans trying to stay together despite the odds against them. 260 pp.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 1997.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Second novel by this highly praised young Hawaiian writer, the story of a ragtag group of orphans trying to stay together.

Santa Cruz, CA:: Limu Press,, (1995). SIGNED -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (Christmas inscription on first page).. 2nd printing, a trade paperback. An account of the author's childhood in old Waikiki in the 1930s, and of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and her trip back to California for college shortly after that attack and her return to Hawaii after graduation as a censor of the US mail. Illustrated with black and white photographs and of her later married life in California. SIGNED on the half title page with the word "Aloha." 225 pp.

New York:: Clarion Books,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Lovely edition of Stevenson's classic short story,set in Hawaii, illustrated with glowing full-color paintings by Jacqueline Mair.)

New York:: Clarion Books,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket. . First printing. Lovely edition of Stevenson's classic short story,set in Hawaii, illustrated with glowing full-color paintings by Jacqueline Mair.)

Honolulu,: University of Hawai'i Press,, (2006). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. A Latitude 20 Book. "Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the largest landowner and richest woman in the Hawaiian kingdom. Upon her death in 1884, she entrusted her property - known as Bishop Estate - to five trustees in order to create and maintain an institution that would benefit the children of Hawai'i: Kamehameha Schools. A century later, Bishop Estate controlled nearly one out of every nine acres in the state, a concentration of private land ownership rarely seen anywhere in the world. Then in August 1997 four revered kupuna (native Hawaiian elders) and a professor of trust-law publicly charged Bishop Estate trustees with gross incompetence and massive trust abuse. Entitled "Broken Trust," the statement provided devastating details of rigged appointments, violated trusts, cynical manipulation of the trust's beneficiaries, and the shameful involvement of many of… Read More

London:: George G. Harrap,, 1954.. Hardcover first edition -. Good condition (corners slightly bumped, spine faded, no dj). First UK printing. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1955.. Very good/no dj.. An edition specially printed for Peterson Engineering Co of Santa Barbara, Ca. (the 12th such book, described as a passport to Pengopia), with several pages of advertisements bound in.