Howard m ballou associate editor (3 Ergebnisse)
Weitere Bilder[Hawaii] The Mid-Pacific Magazine Volume III, Numbers 1-6, January to June 1912
Ford, Alexander Hume; Howard M. Ballou (Associate Editor); Jack London; Ralph Hosmer; Didier Masson; Oscar Vosnich; Marion Parsons; Sol Sheridan; Margaret Howard; et al
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Alexander Hume Ford, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1912
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Dendera, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichDendera
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EUR 1.027,66
EUR 29,34 VersandVersand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First launched in January 1911, this third volume is complete with 6 monthly issues dated January to June 1912. Each in original color illustrated wraps bound inside the publisher's ornately gilt-illustrated green cloth 18x26cm. Printed by the Hawaiian Gazette. (2)pp Contents of Volume III; pp1-596; pp1…01-138 "Encyclopedia and Guide to Hawaii and the Pacific", (2)pp Index. With b/w photos and maps throughout. Provenance: ex-Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station Library copy (with Ralph Hosmer's related article in Issue 1), with minimal markings including spine label and ink stamp to front pastedown dated 9/13/44. Covers otherwise very good, rubbed to the extremities with gilt bright. Interiors about good overall, damp stained throughout, extensively towards the front, and lessening to the lower corner by the end, with some colour offsetting from the still attractive covers to facing pages. Alexander Hume Ford launched this as the official organ of the "Hands-Around-the-Pacific Club" (renamed Pan-Pacific Union in 1912) which he co-founded with Jack London to promote regional interests. They hosted gatherings for leading figures at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Hawaii, which Ford had founded in 1908 to revive and preserve surfing on boards and in outrigger canoes. Ford wrote more than at first appears, confessing to London that he used assumed names whilst begging, stealing or borrowing the rest. He encouraged his local business backers to submit factual content for the Encyclopedia and Guide instead of offering them display ads. The content is very rich on Hawaiian and wider Pacific culture, history, and geography, with additional regular features on Pacific personalities (profiling Club members and others), poetry and literature. ISSUE 1 contains Ford's progress report, and articles on Hawaiian industry, Hawaiian legends, Chinese New Year in the Tropics, Tasmania, American carnivals in the Pacific, Japan's move for Pacific peace, Honolulu as an Agricultural Scientific Center by Ralph Hosmer, Canadian Rockies, home life in the South Seas. ISSUE 2 contain's Ford's write up of the Hands Around the Pacific Banquet, and articles on sugar in Hawaii, New Zealand's Alps, flying in the Tropics by French aviator Didier Masson, Kosciusko, Hawaiian mountains, Tahiti, Iao Valley, Dutch Indies, South Seas Hulahula, the Sierra Club by Marion Parsons, Mid-Pacific Floral Parade. ISSUE 3 has Ford's editorial on Pan-Pacific promotion work, and articles on the passing of Hawaii's grass houses, Sourabaya, windward Hawaii by Sol Sheridan, Buffalo Plateau, Jack London's Cruise of the Snark, New Zealand's Geyserland, Saigon and French China by Oscar Vojnich, the Taro plant, Philippines' picturesque non-Christians, Honolulu's Japanese Park. ISSUE 4: Hawaiian cherry festival, Margaret Howard's ascent of Mauna Loa, indsutrial New Zealand, tramping on Molokai, Australia's irrigation problem, rice in Hawaii, big game in Manchuria, church life in the South Seas, the legendary origin of Kapa cloth, to Mexico City by sea and rail. ISSUE 5 ("Hands Around the Pacific Number") opens with Hands Around the Pacific Club President WF Frear's Announcement on resolutions adopted at its Pacific Day Banquet in Honolulu by 360 Club members with a list of representatives. Articles cover the Hands Around the Pacific Movement, Waipio Valley, deer stalking and fishing in New Zealand, building an outrigger canoe, Australian aboriginals, the Hawaiian pineapple, Vojnich on Hong Kong, American commerce, the story of Hawaii. ISSUE 6: Pacific volcanoes, Puna, Baguio near Manila, Vojnich on New Zealand's lakes, Japan in Hawaii, Australian farmers, banana culture in Hawaii, trolley cars in the Pacific.
Weitere Bilder[Hawaii] The Mid-Pacific Magazine Volume I, Numbers 1-6, January to June 1911 inclusive, including the first issue "Surfing and Coasting Number" with Duke Kahanamoku cover story
Ford, Alexander Hume; Howard M. Ballou (Associate Editor); Duke Kahanamoku; Lorrin Thurston; et al
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Alexander Hume Ford, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1911
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Dendera, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichDendera
Verkäufer/-in kontaktierenVerkäufer/-in mit 5 SternenZustand: Gebraucht - Befriedigend
EUR 4.533,79
EUR 29,34 VersandVersand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The very first volume, complete with 6 monthly issues dated January to June 1911. Each in original colour illustrated wraps bound inside the publisher's ornately gilt-illustrated green cloth 18x26cm. Printed by the Hawaiian Gazette. pp1-696; pp101-164 "Encyclopedia and Guide to Hawaii and the Pacific",…with b/w photos and maps throughout. Provenance: ex-Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station Library copy with minimal markings including spine label and ink stamp to front pastedown dated 9/13/44. Covers otherwise good, gilt bright, worn to the extremities with tear to spine edge. Interiors good, damp stained to lower edges throughout. Alexander Hume Ford launched this as the official organ of the "Hands-Around-the-Pacific Club" (renamed Pan-Pacific Union in 1912) which he co-founded with Jack London to promote regional interests. They hosted gatherings for leading figures at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Hawaii, which Ford had founded in 1908 to revive and preserve surfing on boards and in outrigger canoes. Ford wrote more than at first appears, confessing to London that he used assumed names whilst begging, stealing or borrowing the rest. He encouraged his local business backers to submit factual content for the Encyclopedia and Guide instead of offering them display ads. The content is very rich on Hawaiian and wider Pacific culture, history, and geography, with additional regular features on Pacific personalities (profiling Club members and others), poetry and literature. The very first issue fittingly showcases surfing. ISSUE 1 ("Surfing and Coasting Number") has Duke Kahanamoku surfing on the front, with his opening article on "Riding the Surf" with photos by AR Gurrey and GH Ferris. Other content includes Ford's opening Announcement about the magazine, and articles on skiing in Australia, Napali (Kauai), Wanganui River (NZ), Around the world from Wellington on $5 a day, Oriental Honolulu, Popocatapetl, immigrants into Hawaii, Americanization of Hawaii, Around the Pacific, Hawaiian Trail & Mountain Club, folk tales and poetry. // ISSUE 2 concludes Duke's article "Riding the Surfboard" with photos by Ferris. Other articles include hiking in Oahu, New Zealand, Australia, National Parks, local industry and agriculture on Hawaii, Ainahau park on Hawaii, Hawaii's tree-dwelling Lanai, disappearance of native dance, Hawaiian Floral Carnival, Around the Pacific. // ISSUE 3 ("National Park Number") leads on the Proposed Hawaiian National Volcano Park by Lorrin Thurston of the Trail & Mountain Club pp302-332. Other articles include local uses for discarded repurposing US oil cans, Hawaiian Ocean Park, Japanese Home Life in Honolulu, New Zealand's Mountain Park, Alaska, Australia's National Parks, Flying across the Pacific, Hawaiian bird man legend. // ISSUE 4 leads with Naval Defense of the Pacific by Sidney Ballou of the Navy League's Honolulu Section. Other content includes the joint Pan-Pacific Information and Tourist Bureau, Easter in the Pacific, impressions of Honolulu, Grace Sedgwick in Peru, how Japan is Americanizing Manchuria, Honolulu owls legend, the passing of old Hawaii (with photos of an "old native" with surfboard and "newcomers riding the surf"), Australasia, South Seas feasts and famine, and the first regular Pan-Pacific Congress. // ISSUE 5 leads with Polynesian sport and games. Other articles feature New Zealand, California's first fruit products, Hawaiian geography, curio shops, Percy Hunter on country life in Australia, Fiji and South Sea Islands fashion, and active Samoan volcanoes. // ISSUE 6 ("Outdoor Number") leads on development of Pearl Harbor by Albert Pierce Taylor. Other content includes New Zealand's glaciers, Kamehameha Day on Hawaii, Hawaii for the White Man, Samoa's volcanoes (concluded), NSW's Jenolan Caves, watersports of the South Seas (including Australian bodysurfing), Manila, cruising in Hawaii, Spokane, Hawaii as a Summer Resort. Encyclopedia has a Gurrey / Duke ad (p133).
Weitere Bilder[Hawaii / Duke Kahanamoku] The Mid-Pacific Magazine Volume II, Numbers 1-6, July to December 1911
Ford, Alexander Hume; Howard M. Ballou (Associate Editor); William Cottrell; Oscar Vojnich; et al
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Alexander Hume Ford, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, 1911
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Dendera, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichDendera
Verkäufer/-in kontaktierenVerkäufer/-in mit 5 SternenZustand: Gebraucht - Befriedigend
EUR 2.962,08
EUR 29,34 VersandVersand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach USAAnzahl: 1 verfügbar
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First launched in January 1911, this second volume is complete with 6 monthly issues dated July to December 1911. Each in original colour illustrated wraps bound inside the publisher's ornately gilt-illustrated green cloth 18x26cm. Printed by the Hawaiian Gazette. pp1-596; pp101-146 "Encyclopedia and Gu…ide to Hawaii and the Pacific" with Index; (17)pp Hawaii Peace Congress supplement. With b/w photos and maps throughout. Provenance: ex-Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experiment Station Library copy, with minimal markings including spine label and ink stamp to front pastedown dated 9/13/44. Covers otherwise very good, rubbed to the extremities with gilt bright. Interiors about very good faintly damp stained to lower edges, with short closed tears towards the end. Alexander Hume Ford launched this as the official organ of the "Hands-Around-the-Pacific Club" (renamed Pan-Pacific Union in 1912) which he co-founded with Jack London to promote regional interests. They hosted gatherings for leading figures at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Hawaii, which Ford had founded in 1908 to revive and preserve surfing on boards and in outrigger canoes. Ford wrote more than at first appears, confessing to London that he used assumed names whilst begging, stealing or borrowing the rest. He encouraged his local business backers to submit factual content for the Encyclopedia and Guide instead of offering them display ads. The content is very rich on Hawaiian and wider Pacific culture, history, and geography, with additional regular features on Pacific personalities (profiling Club members and others), poetry and literature. ISSUE 1: Ford's Editorial records positive press reactions for Volume I "from Boston to Manila" with a congratulatory letter from Jack London. Articles cover the Outrigger Canoe Club, Hawaiian mountain horse trails, tramping in Fiji, Milford Sound Trail New Zealand, through Manchuria by trail and train etc. // ISSUE 2 has a full-page panel containing a surfing photo of Duke Kahanamoku by Gurrey with a passage from Byron's Childe Harold inside front. Articles include Hawaii's scenery, native Hawaiian fishing, Ford's visit to a volcano with cannibals, a day in Honolulu, Japanese rice culture, Philippines, New Zealand's Yellowstone. // ISSUE 3: Haleakala, Honolulu shark hunt, regatta day, Savage Island, tramping across Alaska, trout fishing in NSW. // ISSUE 4: a surfing poem, Hawaii's Laysan Island Bird Reservation, Maori-Hawaiian legends, Peace Congress in Hawaii, old Peru, Samoa, railways linking farms in Australia, Japan's peasants, irrigation, South Seas emancipated women etc. // ISSUE 5 has Ford's piece on the passing of the outrigger with photos from Hawaii and elsewhere, Mauna Kea, Hawaii's immigration problem, rod and reel fishing in Hawaii, Hawaiian national dress, Tapa cloth, Samoan customs (including the fate of old canoes), a day in Canton, Australian coast etc. // ISSUE 6: a full page b/w photo "Duke, the Champion Surfer of the World, Hawaii" (p590) in Ford's article on boys' sports in the South Seas. Others cover Kauai canyons, New Zealand, Christmas around the Pacific, Pacific people, Australia, Index to Vol II, Peace Congress supplement including speech by David Starr Jordan etc. Hands-Across-the-Sea illustration to the back. (Reference: Surf Research website).
