Written & illustrated by Don Blanding

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937.

First edition, first printing.

1937 date printed to the title page.

Inscribed with the salutation "Aloha to you from Hawaii" dated 1937 and SIGNED by the author/illustrator to a preliminary page.

Frontispiece photograph of Blanding arriving in Hawaii by seaplane.

Generously illustrated with full-page and vignette pen-and-ink and wood-cut scenes, flora, cultures and people from the various places he traveled including, New Mexico, Spain, California, Florida and Hawaii.

A collection of numerous poems and narrative verses that evoke feelings of culture, nature, the sea, beaches, history, and exotic landscapes.

Fading to the cover borders and to the spine, else very good in blue linen with gilt embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with a sailing scene illustration by Blanding to the front panel, tanning to the spine panel, some rubbing at the spine folds, and tiny chips to the upper and lower spine edges; original printed $2.00 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 143 pages; glossary.

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