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1st item: SONGS OF HAWAII, by Anna M. Paris, privately published, printed by J. F. Tapley, New York, 1910. Hardcover 12mo, 45 pages of song lyrics in English text with glossary, hardbound with printed pictorial wrappers with black lettering to front cover and spine. 7 1/4" H x 5 1/4" W x 1/4" D. 2nd item: PARADOX IN HAWAII, by David Livingston Crawford, published by The Stratford Company, Boston, 1933. Hardcover 12mo, 262 pages including index, hardbound in black publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine, housed in a handmade tapa cloth book jacket with a matching bookmark. 8" H x 5 1/4" W x 1 1/2" D. 3rd item: LETTERS FROM HONOLULU WRITTEN FOR THE SACRAMENTO UNION, by Mark Twain, introduction by John W. Vandercook, published by Thomas Nickerson, Honolulu, 1939. Hardcover octavo, 101 pages, hardbound in publisher's green cloth with applied printed pictorial labels to front cover and spine. 8 1/4" H x 5 3/4" W x 5/8" D. 4th item: HENRY PERRINE BALDWIN 1842 TO 1911, by Arthur D. Baldwin, privately published, printed by the Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, 1915. Hardcover octavo, 119 top gilt edge and deckled edge pages with photographic frontispiece and additional illustrations with tissue paper guards, hardbound in one-quarter brown leatherette with light grey paper sides, gilt-stamped lines to covers and gilt lettering to spine, light grey endpapers and pastedowns, brown paper dust jackets. 9 7/8" H x 6 1/2" W x 1 1/8" D.
PROVENANCE: Acquired from the estate of Carol Illner of Ohio, who acquired it in a collection of books from a direct descendant of Arthur Douglas Baldwin, son of Maui entrepreneur Henry Perrine Baldwin (see lots 700-704 from this collection, also in this auction).
CONDITION: 1st item: Staining, flaking, tears, rubbing to wrappers. 4" separated to top of front cover from spine. Pages with light toning, scattered foxing spots, pencil inscriptions from previous owners. 2nd item: Dust jacket and covers with general handling wear, corners bumped. Pages with light toning, pencil inscriptions from previous owners. 3rd item: Covers with sunning, light handling wear, corners slightly bumped. Pages with light toning, pencil inscriptions from previous owners. 4th item: Dust jacket with tears, flaking, general wear, possible insect damage. General wear to covers. Light toning to pages.