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A LITTLE TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young girl growing up in a Hawaiian-Chinese family in the years after World War II. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-374-189501.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (one nick to top edge.)
Book ID: 12650More details Price: $20.00 -
A LITTLE TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young girl growing up in a Hawaiian-Chinese family in the years after World War II. INSCRIBED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-374-189501.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36633More details Price: $30.00 -
MAKAI.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story of two Chinese-Hawaiian women, who come of age in the years after Pearl Harbor, and live very different lives - one remaining in Honolulu, the other going 'makai' - towards the sea - all the way to Florida. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-374-200009.
Condition: Good only in very good dust jacket (missing front endpaper, otherwise contents would be fine).
Book ID: 43500More details Price: $12.50 -
A LITTLE TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young girl growing up in a Hawaiian-Chinese family in the years after World War II. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Aloha." 226 pp. ISBN: 0-374-189501.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 49309More details Price: $30.00 -
MAKAI.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1999.). First edition - Story of two Chinese-Hawaiian women, who come of age in the years after Pearl Harbor, and live very different lives - one remaining in Honolulu, the other going 'makai' - towards the sea - all the way to Florida. 289 pp
Condition: Fine in glossy white illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62980More details Price: $21.50 -
CHANGES IN LATITUDE: An Uncommon Anthropology.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36860More details Price: $18.50 -
CHANGES IN LATITUDE: An Uncommon Anthropology.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37234More details Price: $25.00 -
MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF HAWAII.
Edition: First thus- a pocket paperback.
Honolulu, Mutual Publishing, (1987.). A selection of ancient Hawaiian legends, selected and edited by A. Grove Day from the four volumes of collected tales of ancient Polynesian lore. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-935180-435.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 54551More details Price: $8.50 -
MARGARET OF MOLOKAI.
Edition: First printing.
Waco,Texas: Word Books. 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Inspirational story of Margaret Kapuni, who, because of her leprosy, was exiled to Molokai at age of 12 in 1936 and spent the next 33 years there, until her disease was finally declared arrested and she was able to return to Oahu. Illustrated with photographs. List of resources. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-849902940.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (previous owner's name, chipping and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 50737More details Price: $12.50 -
SILVERSWORD.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Doubleday, 1987 dj. Hardcover first edition - Romantic mystery set on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (slight spine slant edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 4379More details Price: $18.50 -
HORNDOG BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson, AZ: Edward R. Smallwood, (1995.). Hardcover first edition - A novel about a man trapped by flawed dreams, by the author of 'Snorkel Bob's Reality Guide to Hawaii.' 344 pp. ISBN: 1-881334384.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70522More details Price: $15.00 -
ISLAND OF DEATH: A New Key to Easter Island's Culture Through an Ethno-Psychological Study.
Edition: First edition.
New York: J.J. Augustin, (1948). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs. Tipped in frontispiece. Includes chapters on the statues, the script, Polynesia, the folklore of Easter Island and more.
Bibliography, index of authors, index. 228 pp plus 20 plates.Condition: Very good in charcoal gray cloth with white lettering on the spine, some spine slant, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 86917More details Price: $21.50 -
THE DISENCHANTED ISLES. The Story of the Second Revolution in Hawaii.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Hawaii's transition from a mid-Pacific paradise to a modern industrial community - with a focus on the emergence of the islands' so called 'second-class' citizens - Hawaiians, Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese - after World War II, and of the political and economic reform movement led by Jack Burns and war-hero, Senator Daniel Inouye. Photographs. Notes, index. 304 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good- dust jacket. (some soiling and edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 40322More details Price: $20.00 -
BLU'S HANGING.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. First edition - Second novel by this highly praised young Hawaiian writer, the story of a ragtag group of orphans trying to stay together.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 10746More details Price: $20.00 -
WILD MEAT AND THE BULLY BURGERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this highly praised young Hawaiian writer, set on the big island of Hawai'i. 277 pp. Small square format. ISBN: 0-374-290202.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 46975More details Price: $18.00 -
BLU'S HANGING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-374-114994.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80839More details Price: $30.00
