Thrum Thomas Compiler (5 results)

50th anniversary issue. 14 pages of local advertising following the front end paper +202 pages of text (including many agricultural, ocean shipping & demographic tables & statistics) + an additional 10 pages of local advertising following last page of text. Earlier crayon price on front cover & previous owner's ink stamp on page 1 otherwise a clean very good paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Sewn Wraps. Condition: Good. First Thus. 110 pages plus ads. I dislike the phrase "good for its age" but that sentiment is appropriate in a case like this, where the book is made up of untrimmed, saddle-stitched sheets of fragile newsprint. There are corner chips to covers, but the book is otherwise complete and can be handled carefully.

orig. wrappers. 32x24cm, (132) pp., Series: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Volume VI, No. 2. Pagination runs (4), 223- 358. Full title reads: "Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk- lore: The Hawaiians' Account of the Formation of their Islands and Origin of their Race, with the Traditions of their Migrations, etc., as Gathered from Original Sources by Abraham Fornander, with Translations Edited and Illustrated with Notes by Thomas G.Thrum". Contents: Source & Migration of the Polynesian Race; Traditional Hawaiian History; Hawaiian Origins: Comparative Traditions: Viti- Fiji- New Zealand- Tonga Islands -Marquesas; Legend of Hawaii-Loa; The Story of Kahahana; A Lamentation for Kahahana; On Hawaiian Rank; Chronological List;Events in Hawaiian History; Traditional & Genealogical Notes; Hawaiian Genealogy; Notes on the Polynesian Calendar; Creation Myths; Traditionary Voyages; On the word Amana; Philological & Miscellaneous Notes; Things Similar in India, etc, and Polynesia; The Numerical System, Comparative. Rubbed. Corners bumped. Some spine tears. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 32x23cm, xiii,(185) pp., Weighs 1.5 kilos. Later [recent] binder's blind cloth with original front and rear cover wrappers bound-in. Series: Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Volume VI, No. 3. Pagination runs xiii, [360] - 545. Full title reads: "Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk- lore: The Hawaiians' Account of the Formation of their Islands and Origin of their Race, with the Traditions of their Migrations, etc., as Gathered from Original Sources by Abraham Fornander, with Translations Edited and Illustrated with Notes by Thomas G.Thrum". Contents: A Wakea Creation Chant; Nord Was the Island; Old Creation Chant; Primary Gods & Creations; The Fall of Kumuhonua and His Wife; The Flood; [with numerous other songs and chants in Hawaiian with Parallel English translation].