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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1914. Hardcover first edition - A look at the contact of the Japanese culture and that of North America, including descriptions of the author's own experiences. Among the chapter headings are 'Mutual disillusionment' 'Can we Americanize them?' 'the California land imbroglio' 'They haveusurped Hawaii" and 'White Canada.' Prologue by Doremus Scudder and epilogue by Hamilton W. Mabie. 269 pages. Bound in dark green cloth with gold lettering on the spine and front covers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (second book), based on a little known event - a Japanese pilot who was part of the attack on Pearl Harbor crashes on the isolated Hawaiian island of Niihau. While the Hawaiians are unaware that war has now been declared, the three Japanese speakers on the island are aware of part of the situation and find themselves torn between helping the pilot and loyalty to their country which has treated them with prejudice. Author's note. 260 pp. ISBN: 978-0060780753.

New York: The Viking Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of the world and the last such all-sail convoy. Under the Command of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and despite losing two ships and 71 men, the expedition -which included botanists, geologists, biologists and mapmakers - logged 87,000 miles, discovered a new Southern continent which Wilkes named Antarctica, surveyed 280 Pacific islands and created 180 charts and collected thousands of specimens which eventually became the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution. Solidly researched and a fascinating story. Illustrated with drawings and maps, Notes, selected bibliography, index. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-67003231X.