(HAWAII) The Islander

Sale 2444 - Lot 166

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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(HAWAII.) The Islander. Volume I complete, 35 weekly issues (all published) in one volume with collective title page and index leaf. [4], 244 pages. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf, rebacked and recornered; moderate foxing, minor dampstaining to a few leaves; bookplate of the magazine's business agent Thomas G. Thrum (1842-1935) on flyleaf as with other known copies, 1935 gift inscription from Ethel Damon to the Hawaiian Missionary Children's Society Library on front free endpaper. Honolulu, 5 March to 29 October 1875

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A complete run of this important periodical, described on the collective title page as "A weekly journal devoted to Hawaiian interests, scientific researches, literature, home and foreign affairs." Future territorial governor (and opponent of the monarchy) Sanford Dole was the co-editor. Includes significant translations of Hawaiian poetry into English, as well as a long-running series titled "Hawaiian Land Matters." Forbes 3086; not in Lomazow.