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Hardcover. Zustand: VERY GOOD. NONE. 1st edition; 63 clean, unmarked, tight pages; crayon sketch and initials on 2nd blank page; scribbling inside back cover and back flyleaf; cover has soiling, bumped and frayed corners, torn and curled lower spine, and a half-inch section of upper spine missing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Sesam, København 2003. 238 sider. Illustreret i farver. Orig. rødbrunt kartonbind. Velholdt. * Fint, fyldestgørende værk om den kendte nordsjællandske borgruins glorværdige fortid.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. (24 cm.) [13]14-208p. Illustrated with four black and white captioned photos from Ray Jerome Baker's "Scenic Hawaii" and with yellow and brown endpaper maps of Waiawa Kanuka's Home Lot As it was about 1885 by Y. Oda. Bibliography, Glossary, and Names of Hawaiian Localities in [the] Text. Blue cloth with blue letters on the front cover and the spine. Some wear to extremities with a couple of corners just barely rubbed through, top and bottom of spine just barely beginning to fray, covers ever so lightly soiled, all photos in fine condition, gift inscription at top of copyright page [Mrs. R.B. McCabe | From | Frank Langille (?) | with my | Aloha."], endpaper maps intact, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Eric Alfred Knudsen (1872 - 1957) was an American writer, folklorist, lawyer and politician who grew up and lived on Kauai, Hawaii. His father was Valdemar Knudsen, a west Kauai sugar plantation pioneer. He was a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and served as its Speaker from 1905 to 1907. He is most known for his writings and collections of short stories of and about Hawaiian folklore and culture. Co-author Gurre Evelyn (Ploner) Noble (b. 1902), a woman, wrote several children's and adult books relating to Hawaii. Y. Oda may possibly be yet another variant of the name of the artist known as Frank Y. Oda, Frank Yasutaro Oda, or Yasutaro Oda (1915-2001), who illustrated books on the insects of Hawaii and the flowers of Hawaii at about this time, but this is not certain. This is the true first edition and not the one published in 1945 by a different publisher. I have compared the two editions and the photos in the 1945 edition are significantly less sharp than those in the 1944 edition. "It is of Kauai that this story shall tell, the first of the islands to spring from the sea, the oldest and fairest. We shall go back to a time when few white people had settled there, when strong, bronzed men still lived in grass houses, living simply and happily together. This is the saga of Kauai, and of Kanuka, the tall, blond Norwegian who became a king." {from the Prologue]. Y. Oda (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Keith Stone, Honolulu, HI. 1947. Upaginated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in very thick board with metal rivets binding the pages together. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's gift inscription present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mel Schubert was an animator at Walt Disney. This is an unusual children's book focusing on Hawaiian beliefs and legends. E-129; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

ROSE BAMPTON (1907-2007) US-amerikanische Opernsängerin (Sopran). Sie wirkte u. a. in der von Leopold Stokowski dirigierten amerikanischen Erstaufführung von Schönbergs Gurre-Liedern mit. Unter Leitung von Arturo Toscanini sang Bampton die Leonore in Ludwig van Beethovens einziger Oper Fidelio. 1937 heiratete sie den kanadischen Dirigenten und Pianisten Wilfrid Pelletier (1896?1982). Großes Druckbild (Pb. gr. 8°, leichte Gebrauchsspuren), in Tinte eigenhändig signiert - Titelbild der OPERA NEWS Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland vom 17.IV.1944 (komplettes Heft), mit Lauritz Melchior in TANNHÄUSER.…