In an Old Hawaiian Garden: An Album of Hawaii's flowers / Don Blanding
Book
37 p., [16] plates : col. ill. (lithographs)
A now classic 1940s period piece-- a Hawaiian book of color floral lithographs by T.J. Mundorff. The tests is written by Don Blanding, and is signed "Aloha, Don Blanding" with a small ink bird drawing. The signature could be flat signed, though it doesn't appear to be. The third edition is the most desirable, as it was the first edition to have the text written (poems) by Blanding.
16 flowers are included with a lithograph and a brief verse for each.
Contents: Red Hibiscus -- Anthurium -- Bird of Paradise -- Torch Ginger -- Lehua Blossom -- Red Ginger -- Cattleya Orchid -- Plumeria -- White Ginger -- Wood Rose -- Heliconia -- Gardenia -- Ape -- Night Blooming Cereus -- Yellow Hibiscus -- Cup of Gold.
2015.7.367
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
FlowersPictorial works1940s
10-3/4 in
Don Blanding
Theodore J. Mundorff
Third
Honolulu
Hawai'i
United States
North America
1947
Publishers' Binding- Onlay
Bound in dark blue cloth hardcovers with an oval floral lithograph onlay ringed in silver to the front cover. Printed on heavy, quality paper- the previous editions were printed on inferior wartime paper.
Hawai'i
United States
North America
Summer Publisher's Bindings