Silverman Jane L (11 results)

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. This trade paperback is in good condition, with a clean cover and intact binding. There are no signatures, inscriptions, or library markings. The absence of a dust jacket is typical for this format. no dust jacket (trade paperback).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good Minus dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy. Jacket has a thumbnail tear at front gutter, plus mild edge-wear. 181 pages.

Paperback. Condition: As New. As new. Softbound 8vo. Portrait of Kamehameha I's favorite wife, who overthrew the traditional kapu system. 181pp. Index, biblio. 22 b/w illus. > Language: English | > Size: 8vo |.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Good. Thin, oblong stapled wraps. Light soiling to outsides. Clean and unmarked insides.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 16 x 22 cm. Cover title. Rare and interesting.

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. 1st Pbk Edition. Biography of Kaahumanu [1768-1832] who was Queen consort of Kamehameha I King of the H awaiian Islands. After his death she took the role of "kuhina nui" and as co-regent helped to negotiate changes resulting from increased exposure to Western influences. She converted to Christianity, encouraged the missionaries who translated the Bible into Hawaiian and promoted literacy, She also signifcantly changed the condition of women in Hawaiian society. 181p.illus bibliography.index.Shadow of a price label, else fne.…

Silverman, Jane L. A Pictorial Glimpse of Bench & Bar in the Hawaiian Monarchy. [Honolulu]: Judiciary, State of Hawaii, 1980. [24] pp., illustrations, portraits. Oblong pamphlet, stapled in stiff printed wrappers. Light soiling and some fading to wraps, interior clean. A good copy. $30. * This publication provides a visual and historical overview of the legal system during the Kingdom of Hawaii (roughly 1795-1893). It contains numerous portraits of prominent judges (the "bench") and lawyers (the "bar") who shaped the 19th-century Hawaiian legal system. The text explores the transition of the Hawaiian judiciary from traditional cultural concepts to a Western-style constitutional system, which began with the Constitution of 1840. It covers the period when the monarch (such as King Kalakaua or Queen Lili?uokalani) appointed Supreme Court justices upon the advice of the Privy Council of State. Produced as part of the state's efforts to document its judicial history, it serves as a concise guide to the figures and legal structures that existed prior to the 1893 overthrow of the monarchy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. > SIGNED by Author(s) | Cloth 8vo. Portrait of Kamehameha I's favorite wife, who overthrew the traditional kapu system. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Insect damage to inner front board and front dj flap, somewhat tattered dj faded at spine, o/w very good. 181pp. Index, biblio. Color frontis, 23pp illus. 1st edition. > Language: English | > Size: 8vo | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm ISBN 9780810939653, 9780912308463, 0810939657, 091230846X OCLC 25789827 LCCN 91068463 LC N6505 .K56 1992 Dewey 708.153 ; black plush faux leather covers with gold lettering, in color pictorial dustjacket ; artists include: Michele Felice Corne, Benjamin Wilson, David Martin, Charles Wilson Peale, Jean-Honore Fragonard, John Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart, Giuseppe Ceracchi, rembrandt Peale, Jean-Antoine Houdon, John Vanderlyn, Samuel F B Morse, Charles Bird King, James Peale, John Syme, Thomas Birch, George Cooke, Thomas Sully, Hiram Powers, Henry INman, George Caleb Bingham, John Frederick Kensett, Frederic E Church, Asher B Durand, Alvan Fisher, Severin Roesen, Fitz Hugh Lane, William Ranney, Clark Mills, William McLeod, Andrew Andrews, William M Hart, george Henry Durrie, Ferdinand Richardt, George P A Healy, Thomas ball, Thomas Nast, Wordsworth Thompson, Peter F Rothermel, William Tolman Carlton, Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Constantino Brumidi, Worthington Whittredge, Martin Johnson Heade, George Inness, James McNeil Whistler, Albert Bierstadt, William Lewis Sonntag, James F Cropsey, Alfred T Bricher, John Rogers, Andrew melrose, Charles M Russell, Frederic Remington, Winslow Homer, Maurice B Pendergast, William Merritt Chase, Ernest Lawson, Thomas Eakins, Theobald Chartran, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Anders L Zorn, Thomas Moran, Adolph A Weinman, Childe Hassam, Sir William Orpen, Philip de Laszlo, Willard Leroy Metcalf, William Glackens, Lilla Cabot Perry, Henriette Wyeth, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

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