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THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2002.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO authors: Bernard Cooper at his essay "Winner Take Nothing" about his relationship with his father after he won the Hemingway award and Barbara Ehrenreich at "Welcome to Cancerland." Includes contributions by Jacques Barzun, Sebastian Junger, Darryl Pinckney, Richard Price, Gore Vidal, Mario Vargas Llosa and others. Introduction by Gould and brief biographies of the contributors. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9283.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 62975More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1991.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by TWO contributors: Amy Tan at her essay, 'Mother Tongue' and Garrett Hongo at "Kubota." Uncommon thus. The sixth in the series. In addition to the contributions by the writers shown above, some other selections are an essay on watching the Miss America pageant with his daughters by Gerald Early, questions of conquest by Mario Vargas Llosa, Counters and cable cars by Stephen Jay Gould and more. Introduction by Oates and brief biographies of the contributors. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9283.
Condition: Very near fine.
Book ID: 61127More details Price: $30.00 -
PERIL UNDER THE PALMS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in the 1920s and featuring Standford student Iris Cooper and reporter Jack Clancy. Iris and her aunt Hermoine are on a trip to Honolulu accompanying her schoolmate who is the heir to a great fortune in the islands, but the threat of long hidden family secrets coming to light results in murder. INSCRIBED on the title page 191 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-57154.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82662More details Price: $30.00 -
BASTARD TONGUES: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hill & Wang, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all - Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. . . Bickerton has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. . . a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer." Double page map, glossary, index. suggested reading. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-28174.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56321More details Price: $17.50 -
TAHOE ICE GRAVE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,
South Lake Tahoe, California: Thriller Press, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Third mystery featuring ex-cop and detective Owen McKenna and his Great Dane Spot. Bibliomystery involving a long-lost manuscript by Mark Twain, reportedly hidden on the Hawaiian island of Kauia in 1866. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's letter. 288 pp. ISBN: 1931296146.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 58376More details Price: $25.00 -
RED RANDALL AT PEARL HARBOR, Red Randall series #1.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1944.). Hardcover first edition - The first in this series of World War II aviation adventures, featuring Second Lieutenant "Red" Randall of the U.S. Army Air Corps, by the author of Dave Dawson War Adventure Series. Plain frontispiece; illustrated orange and white endpapers show a scene of planes in a dog-fight. 216 pp.
Condition: Fair condition overall in green boards with black lettering (rather severe toning to the pages, notice on title page that it was printed under wartime conditions, gift inscription in pencil dated in 1944) no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85819More details Price: $13.50 -
THE IMPERIAL CRUISE: A Secret History of Empire and War.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 62138More details Price: $17.50 -
YESTERDAY AT KALAUPAPA: A Saga of Pain and Joy.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Honolulu, Hawaii: Editions Limited, (1991.). A beautiful book, illustrating through many photographs a unique history - that of the "Molokai Leprosy Colony" in the Hawaiian Islands,where over a period of 125 years, over 7,000 of the afflicted were involuntarily confined for life. Included are chapters on the building of the first church by Protestant missionaries at Siloama, the coming of Father Damien and Brother Dutton,the work of Mother Marianne and her nuns, the failure of the US research station, but most of all, this is full of photographs of the residents themselves. Chronology, bibliography, index. 114 pp. Slightly oversized format, printed on glossy stock. Maps inside covers. ISBN: 0-935180-826.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 43122More details Price: $35.00 -
DAMNED IN PARADISE: A Nathan Heller Novel.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth novel featuring Nathan Heller, inspired by the Massie case in Hawaii, a trial in which Clarence Darrow argued for the defense. SIGNED on the title page. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-525942254.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78590More details Price: $30.00 -
THE PEARL HARBOR MURDERS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Berkley, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The third novel in Collins's series of disaster mysteries, issued as paperback originals. Each centers around a famous historical disaster and has a different famous mystery writer involved who solves the murder - in this book, it is Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan books and his son. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp plus ads. ISBN: 0-425174093.
Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to pages)
Book ID: 78902More details Price: $21.50 -
MAKE NO SOUND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A 12 year old girl living in Hawaii gets caught up in the myths of the islands.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (pc.)
Book ID: 14310More details Price: $25.00 -
ONE MAN'S PARADISE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Winner of the Minotaur Books/ Mystery Writer's of America First Crime Novel Award. Hot shot New York criminal defense attorney Kevin Corvelli loses big when a client he fails to get off is killed in prison, and proven to be innocent. His career destroyed, but determined to remain a lawyer, he bolts to Hawaii where he once again finds himself defending a man he knows is innocent against a murder charge. 342 pp. ISBN: 9780312611583.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 57888More details Price: $17.50 -
AMERICAN TOPOGRAPHER: The Working Years of George Stanley Druhot, 1914-1963.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, still in shrinkwrap.)
Book ID: 39803More details Price: $30.00 -
WHERE THERE'S A WILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Berkley, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery involving forensic anthropology and featuring Gideon Oliver by this Edgar wlnning author - set on the big island of Hawaii. SIGNED on the title page. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-425-200264.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62660More details Price: $30.00 -
JUST PLAY DEAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Screenwriter's first novel, a "hilarious double-crossing tale of a deadly menage-a-trois" - set in Lahaina, on Maui, Hawaii. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-312168764.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 35966More details Price: $12.50 -
JUNIORS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2015). First edition - Her fourth book, a young adult novel about belonging and learning to fit in on your own terms - Lea is in-between - part Hawaiian, part Mainlander - but as a junior she finds herself back in Hawaii and adjusting to a whole new life. 313 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68908More details Price: $15.00 -
BIRD OF ANOTHER HEAVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel inspired by the life of Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), a California woman, half Indian, half Hawaiian, who became consort and confidante to the last king of Hawaii. 337 pp. ISBN: 9781400042029.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56191More details Price: $15.00 -
BIRD OF ANOTHER HEAVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel inspired by the life of Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), a California woman, half Indian, half Hawaiian, who became consort and confidante to the last king of Hawaii. 337 pp. ISBN: 9781400042029.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (as new but with a remainder dot.)
Book ID: 50843More details Price: $17.50 -
BIRD OF ANOTHER HEAVEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel inspired by the life of Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), a California woman, half Indian, half Hawaiian, who became consort and confidante to the last king of Hawaii. 337 pp. ISBN: 9781400042029.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 87659More details Price: $20.00 -
KATHY MARTIN COURAGE IN CRISIS: Number 9.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Golden Press, (1964). Hardcover first edition - A title in the Kathy Martin Nurse Series - Kathy is working in a rehabilitation center in Northern California. illustrated by William Plummer. Despite the constraints of juvenile series fiction at the time, Sterne and Lindsay, both of whom were very involved in civil rights activism, managed to introduce many characters with various ethnic backgrounds - all young women more interested in a career than in getting married. 87 pp. 10 titles listed on the back cover (#8-10 were all published in the same year)
Condition: Very good in matte finished illustrated boards with diamond design on spine (usual toning to the pages, but overall clean and tight.)
Book ID: 69843More details Price: $15.00 -
NIGHT LIFE: Nature from Dusk to Dawn.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book - each section discusses the creatures of the night in a different area of the US - Arizona in August, North Dakota in December, Hawaii in January, Connecticut in April, and Louisiana in June. She explores these areas with wildlife experts and discovers an astonishing array of nocturnal animals: coyotes, octopi, bats, and even human poachers. Illustrated with drawings by the author. viii, 312 pp. ISBN: 0-316483001.
Condition: Very good in a very near fine dust jacket (bookstore stamp on front endpaper).
Book ID: 76877More details Price: $17.50 -
TRANS-PACIFIC SONNETS.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1931. dj. First edition - A small volume of poems related to Hawaii printed in an edition limited To 400 copies. The final poem summarizes the theme of this little booklet "We have taken a short cut to Paradise." Unpaginated.
Condition: Fine in stiff green wrappers with black lettering in a very good outer gold wrapper. Uncommon.
Book ID: 86208More details Price: $21.50 -
MYSTERY OF THE BRASS BOUND TRUNK: A Nancy Drew Mystery Story #17.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1973, c 1940). Hardcover - Bound in illustrated boards with blue multi-scene endpapers. llustrated by Russell Tandy. Original text with 25 chapters, 220 pp. ISBN: 0-448-095173.
Condition: Very near fine in matte (flat) finish illustrated boards, yellow spine - a tight clean copy.
Book ID: 87082More details Price: $17.50 -
MYSTERY OF THE BRASS BOUND TRUNK: A Nancy Drew Mystery Story #17.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1976). Hardcover - White with gray multi-scene endpapers, frontispiece, 180 pp Lists to 'Crocodile Island' on back cover. ISBN: 0-448-095173.
Condition: Very good+ in matte (flat) finish illustrated boards, yellow spine (name stamped on endpapers, but overall a tight clean copy)
Book ID: 86248More details Price: $14.50 -
THE SECRET OF THE WOODEN LADY: A Nancy Drew Mystery Story #27.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1985, c1967). Hardcover - Cover by Rudy Nappi. Lists to #56 on back cover and on order form in rear of book. Illustrated with a plain frontispiece and 5 internal drawings. Format 19 with oval endpapers. 176 pp. plus 2 order forms. ISBN: 0-448-095270.
Condition: Just about fine in matte (flat) finish illustrated boards with a yellow spine.
Book ID: 68480More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION: Nancy Drew Mystery Series, #36.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1961, c. 1959.) dj. Hardcover - Set in Hawaii, with dedication to "boys and girls of our fifthieth and newest state" on the copyright page. Blue tweed cloth covers with dark blue silhouette of Nancy on front cover, blue multi-scene illustrated endpapers (Farah's format 16 used between 1959 and 1961) lists to #38 Nancy Drew both on dj flap and in the book and to #22 Dana Girls). Illustrated. Original text. 184 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket with wraparound illustrated spine (bookplate, some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 88447More details Price: $27.50 -
JACK LONDON IN PARADISE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1915-1916 and based on the last years of writer Jack London's life in Hawaii, after Wolf House in Glen Ellen was destroyed by fire. 383 pp. ISBN: 978-1416547228.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread, some toning to the top edge of the textblock.)
Book ID: 63152More details Price: $20.00 -
SHIMURA TROUBLE: A Rei Shimura Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Sutton, UK: Severn House, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery in this award-winning series featuring a savy young Japanese American woman, an antique dealer and sometimes sleuth, Rei Shimura, who is helping her father recover from a stroke, when they are invited to visit the Hawaiian branch of their family. Once there Shimura is enlisted in the attempt to regain land they believe was stolen from them during World War II . SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-0727866011.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, and overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 87568More details Price: $28.50 -
THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK.
Edition: First printing.
Pittsburgh, PA: Beta Phi Mu, 1974. Hardcover first edition - Number 10 in the series of chapbooks issued by Beta Phi Mu, the library science honorary fraternity. This gives a narrative overview of James Cook's three voyages (from 1768-1777, 1772-1775 and 1776 to 1780) and comments on the best of the many works which study the voyages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Cook and three maps. Index. One of 5500 copies, designed, printed and bound by the Lakeside Press. xiv, 80 pp. ISBN: 0-910230102.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, large gilt anchor on front cover.
Book ID: 39456More details Price: $20.00 -
KAPA, Fall 1969.
Edition: First thus.
Honolulu, University of Hawaii, 1969. First edition - A literary journal with poetry, fiction, art and photography by students - and professors - at the University of Hawaii. Features the summer contest winners - among them Karl K. Ichida for poetry, David Yasuo Henna for short story and Stanley Okada for photography. 56 pp.
Condition: Very good in printed orange wrappers (minor wear to covers)
Book ID: 82128More details Price: $16.50