Clifford gessler (18 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

HARDCOVER. First edition. 331pp, numerous b/w illustrations, octavo. book plates, owner name, slight cover/spine wear otherwise Good. A S MacLeod (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. D. Appleton-Century, 1941. First Edition. Very Good + condition. No jacket. What a nice copy for display or to actually read. The jacket color is so vibrant! (CK).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Later printing, FINE in near Fine DJ. Illustrated by E.H.Suydam. DHABF. Hawaii.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: cover wear otherwise good. First edition. 32pp, text figures. octavo cloth. presentation copy signed in full by author. a. s. macleod (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. Fifth printing. Large 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [4], 3-382 pp. Yellow cloth with blue lettering and a blue flower decoration on the front board, blue lettering and a blue decoration on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, maps and plates (these done in black and white), all done by E.H. Suydam. Toning to the gutters; jacket with a closed tear on its spine panel and a red spot on its rear panel. One of the plates in this copy is blank, likely a printer's error.…

D. Appleton-Century Co: NY (1937). Illus by E. H. Suydam, 9 x 6.5", yellow cloth, in dw.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. The flaps of the dust jacket have been glued to the boards, and it has condition issues, but the warm inscription by the author, the editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, is to one of his columnists, Grace Tower Warren., the woman who first suggested the idea of Lei Day. Illustrated. (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s). …

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the second endpaper. Gessler's history of Honolulu published just before the second world war. weight: 2.0 lb. Very good in a good dust jacket with some chipping, tears and creases. 8 full-page illustrations. Illustrated with drawings by A.S. MacLeod. 23.5x15.5 cm. xvii, 331 pp. Green cloth, gilt spine decorations, pictorial map endpapers.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Good hardback copy.No dustjacket. 351pp, b/w plates. Ex-libris plate inside cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. xvi, [1] 382 pages color frontispiece, illustrations, plates. Publisher's binding sturdy, light wear to corners, dust darkening to boards; inscribed by author at half title, contents age-toned but unmarked. The unclipped ($5.00) dust jacket (now in Mylar) is rubbed, especially at its hinges, and is age-toned, sunned, and chipped. 960 grams. E.H. Suydam (illustrator).…

GESSLER, Clifford. KANAKA MOON. Illustrated by A.S. Macleod. NY: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1927. 12mo., pictorial grey cloth. First Edition. Signed presentation by Gessler, to gardening author Helen Fox, on the front endpaper: "To Helen M. Fox, author of `Patio Gardens', in appreciation, Clifford Gessler. Honolulu, March 3, 1930." Very Good. $50.00. MACLEOD, A.S. (illustrator). …

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

7.5 x 5.25", cloth with sharp color pict label on front cover, 154pp, covers a bit extremity-worn, spine ends bumped, hinges loose, text toned (esp. endpapers) else a nice copy in a rubbed, browned, edge-chipped dustjacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Honolulu 1928.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. Dust Jacket. Signs of shelf wear. Small corner tear. Good. Clipped price corners. Price printed on dust jacket flap: $5.00.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth. 8vo. 351pp. Pictorial dust jacket with unclipped flap. Illustrated with photographs. With a full-page incription by the author: "You ask me what it was like to be in that country, and I answer, The wind leaned always on the land out of the sea, and life was toward the sea.and all the stars over that coiuntry were kind". Clifford Gessler left his desk on a Honolulu newspaper to accompany an expedition to some of the remote and seldom visited islands of the Pacific. Together with his friend Kenneth Emory, the ethnologist of the expedition, he spent three months on the outlying atoll of Tepuka in the Paumotu or Dangerous Archipelago. A very good copy with some light wear to the cloth. The text is very good and clean. The jacket is good with some light soiling and some chipping to the spine tips. There are a few small chips and tears to the edges of the front and rear panels. Inscribed by Author(s).…

First American edition. This is Gessler's account of his experience travelling around Polynesia as part of the Mangaevan expedition of 1934. The expedition covered 14,000 kilometres and 56 islands, collecting data on the lives of the locals and the natural history of the islands. Clifford Franklin Gessler (1893-1979) was living in Hawaii when he accompanied Kenneth Emory on the expedition sponsored by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. They spent 14 weeks on Napuka Atoll in the Tuamotus and recorded 90 songs and chants and the genealogies and oral history of the people living there. "The feel of the real South Seas is in this book, written not by a professional world-tramp but by an amateur with an informed approach to native life and the sympathy and insight to record it in its simple beauty" (jacket blurb). The work was published simultaneously in the UK as The Dangerous Islands. Octavo. Half-tone frontispiece, 14 plates. Original orange cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front cover lettered in blind, with vignette of a bird, top edge brown, others untrimmed (lower edge partially trimmed). With dust jacket. Decorative skull & bones bookplate of "Col. John E. Barrington Kennett" to front free endpaper. Spine ends bumped, endmatter a little toned, small nick to front free endpaper; jacket not price clipped, edges a little nicked and creased, minor marks and soiling to panels: a very good copy in like jacket.…