juliette fraser illustrator (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. [Hawaiian Folklore] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Tears to spine ends. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. "The stories possess a deep feeling for the beauty of nature, for the flowers, clouds, trees, rainbows, ocean, surf, waterfalls, volcanoes, and other phases of the world in which the Hawaiians lived. The legends in Ghost Dog are representative of various island districts and reveal the moods, temper, and characteristics of an ancient Hawaiian people.".

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ex-Library features on red hardcover in good, clean, tight condition with light wear and bumped corners. Text is free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Second edition (as stated upon title page; first published 1936). 151 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.5cm. No dust jacket. Brown cloth strongly mottled with mild soiling; front board decorated with Fraser illustration. Text block previously detached but now glued back in for a crude but effective repair. Toning to front and rear free endpapers; light foxing to pastedowns; past owner's pencil signature and four-line paternal ink gift inscription (dated 1939) on front free endpaper; some interior foxing and a few instances of light soiling and small stains as well as a few creased corners. Text block is firm. Rear pastedown features green bookseller ticket for The Maui Book Store, Wailuku, Hawaii which is quite likely contemporary to purchase. Several full page b/w illustrations as well as a few insets by Hawaiian artist Juliette May Fraser on unpaged leaves including a frontispiece. Per the Introduction (pages 7-8), a collection of fairy tales told by "Kahuna Nui, the Old Sage of Kakaako n Honolulu" to his grandchildren but, in reality, are short stories written by Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Times newspaper columnist Bernice Piilani Irwin (and, although not credited, were edited by her husband Edwin Irwin). Features seventeen stories: "The Lady of the Moon;" "The Menehune and the Birds;" "Aloha and the Mano;" "Aloha and the Pau'a;" "The Ahuula of Laukapu;" "The Black Sands of Kalapana;" "The Marriage of Kihapai and Laukapu;" "Star Flower;" "Kaehu, the Child of the Sea;" "The Betrothal of Kaehu and Star Flower;" "The Menehune of the Sea" (two parts "The Launching of the Canoe" and "A Visit to the Menehune"); "The Woodcutter of Olaa;" "The Kahuna and His Daughter;" "Kalanikoa and Kanani;" "Lei Aloha and the Menehune;" "The Wrath of Pele;" and "The Mahoe of Kailua." Concludes with two short essays "Pronunciation of the Hawaiian Alphabet" and "Pronunciation and Glossary of Hawaiian Words.".