Lion in the Lei Shop the a Novel by Kaye Starbird (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Softcover. Condition: New. Marty Langsmith is only five years old when a strange thunder rolls across the Hawaiian sky and life as she knows it explodes into flames. With her mother, April, and hundreds of other women and children, Marty is evacuated from the ruins of Pearl Harbor and sent into a brave new world overshadowed by uncertainty and grief. Feeling abandoned by her deployed Army officer father in the wake of the attack, Marty is haunted by nightmares of the lion in the lei shop, a creature thats said to devour happy children. But as the years pass, mother and daughter slowly begin to embrace their new life and make peace with the pain of the past. Spanning the tumultuous war years, The Lion in the Lei Shop deftly recaptures a dramatic chapter of American history.Originally published in 1970 and reissued for a new generation of readers as part of renowned librarian Nancy Pearls Book Lust Rediscoveries series, this lyrical novel gives a rarely heard voice to the women and children of Pearl Harbor.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) James and Ruth McCrea (illustrator). First Edition. [minimal shelfwear to book, a nice clean copy; jacket shows a touch of rubbing at spine ends, tiny one-time sale price in ink at top corner of front flap]. "A fond and funny chronicle of life as an Army brat in those almost incredible years between two world wars." Actually, Army brats x 3, as the primary characters in this semi-autobiographical novel are the narrator, Carol, and her two siblings: "Accident-prone Allen and poetry-writing Carol and precocious Sarah had a childhood that was in many ways highly unusual, but it was also generally happy and characteristically American." The author's subsequent (and only other) novel, "The Lion in the Lei Shop," published in 1970, was about the experiences of a young mother and her daughter during World War II, beginning in Hawaii with the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. This is quite an unusual book. As far as my research shows, once listed it will be the Only first edition, the Only copy with its dust jacket, and the Only signed copy, for sale on the Internet. Moreover, there is a separate very nice signed postcard/note from the author. You can see the covers in the photos. They're very clean. The blue and green lettering on the spine is nicely bright. The edges and corners are in excellent condition, no rubbing. The spine ends have just a little bit of crinkling. The page edges look very good. The book is solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages and nicely tight covers as well. The previous owners of the book, who the book is inscribed to placed a photo of the author from a newspaper clipping on the first front end paper in between her inscription and signature (see photo). It is attached to the front end paper by only one thin strip of scotch tape. Lifting up the clipping there is only a light tanning of the green outlining its square shape. I've chosen not to take the risk of removing the newspaper clipping, but if you chose to I would do it after, and during, subjecting the tape to the heat of a hairdryer. The beginning of the inscription is penned on the front inside cover, a little tanning is present at its right margin. The interior of the book is in excellent shape. The pages are exceptionally clean. In scrolling through them I came upon only one instance of a tiny tan spot in the same place on two facing pages, just adjacent to the juncture between the pages, quite minor. I didn't see any other soiling. Similarly, I came only upon one instance of a crease. The top corner of one page had been folded in. I flattened it out and there are three creases visible at the corner. None of them reach the print. There are no markings in the book. No attachments other than the aforementioned newspaper clipping. And the signed inscription is the only writing to be found anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. Off the front top edge there is some rippling with along the outline of a water stain. So the rippling was caused by exposure to some water. There are no tears there, and they only tears I see are two tiny ones at the top edge of the spine. There's also some of the rippling or waviness off the top edge of the rear cover, although there isn't any water stain (the book itself was absolutely not affected by the water stains on the jacket). The white of the rear cover has a light bit of toning at its side margins and a tiny pen jag near the bottom edge. The flaps are in very solid shape. There is a light bit of crinkling off part of the inside edge of the rear flap and I can make out a very light, thin water stain there as well, just on the narrow part of the white margin. The flaps are otherwise very clean and have little to no wear. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. From the dust jacket: 'Unique among books that deal with the lack of communication between generations and with the subjective quality of memory, The Lion in the Lei Shop is an absorbing and expertly written novel about a young mother and daughter in wartime. The action which begins in Hawaii the day of the attack of Pearl Harbor, is recounted not from the masculine viewpoint of most novels set in wartime, but from the remembered viewpoint of these two, whose widely divergent recollections of the same period give a new immediacy and perspective to events that are now remote and even legendary. Told with pace, humor, and compassionate insight, The Lion in the Lei Shop poignantly and entertainingly recaptures a dramatic period in the American past.' The Lion in the Lei Shop was written while the author was in residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Inscribed by Author(s).