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DON BLANDING
"Drifter's Gold"

Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1939
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Incorporated, Binghamton, New York
Hardback, 142 pages

Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding

Dedication:
With this friendliest of greetings...
"Aloha - I Love You"
I dedicate this book to you who are my friends.
And to you who might have been friends if we had chanced to meet...
with as many good wishes as there are petals in a fragrant Hawaiian flower lei
symbol of affection, Aloha
Don Blanding

Contents:

Mahalo Nui Oe
Drifter's Gold
Above My Door and Across My Heart...
My First Love... My Last Love
Quest
Shadows of Beauty
Tutu (Hawaiian Translation)
Tutu
Kona Holiday
Wind-Harp Pool
Island Brotherhood
The Heiau on the Hill
King Coral's Green-Blue Realm
The Friendly Day
Island Perfumes
An Island of your Own
Via "Coconut Wireless"
The Blind Chanter
Kapakahi
Camera Angle
View from the Upper Road, Kona
Lava Flows at Night
Desert Cemetery
Face of the Desert
Nature Lover
Song of the West
    The Glaciers
    The Fossils
    Cliff Dwellers
    Conquistadores
    The Pioneers
Death of a God
Devil's Wind
Prairie Boy and the Sea
Eyes of the Beholder
The Butterfly Veil
Here's Spring Again
The Mountain and the Clod
Winter Sea
Mistress
Pyre
The Guardian of all Green, Growing Things
Harvest
Bonds
Some Man Will Call it "Home":
    The Northland
    The Jungle
    The Desert
The Free Ones
Street Scene
The Conjure Flower
The Guardians of Dreams
Vagabond's Pack
Star Net
Why I Like Blue
Mystery Stories
The Beast
It's Easier Said Than Done
Tune
Daughter of Magdalene
Murder Story
The Goofus Bird
Night in the Redwoods
Puppet Show
Transient Flames
Rival
Three Score and Ten
Progression
The Double Life
The White Flame
Little Sorrows
Ol' Clothes
Aloha

Illustrations:

Lining Paper
Frontispiece
Drifter's Gold
Dedication
Mermaid's Gold
Magnolias
Mirage
Hawaiian Gold
Spider Lilies
Bird of Paradise Flower
Sea Butterflies
Angel's Ladder
Stephenotis
King Coral
Coral Fan
King Coral's Daughter
White Ginger Blossoms
Desert Gold
Face of the Desert
Western Gold
The Butterfly Veil
Mountain Columbines
The Guardian of all Green Growing Things
Carmel Cypress
Frozen Gold
Conjure Flower
Dreamer's Gold
Star Net
Blue Pool
The Beast
Daughter of Magdalene
Aloha

Notes:
Tutu was translated into Hawaiian by Mrs. Mary Kawena Pukui of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.
Wind-Harp Pool was written for Helen Ware.
Island Perfumes was written for Paul and Estrellita Jones.
Eyes of the Beholder was written for Mrs. M. C. Turner.
The Mountain and the Clod was written for Milton Wassmer.
Pyre was written about Jack London's Wolf House.
The Guardian of All Green, Growing Things was written for Hado.
Street Scene was written for Armine von Tempski.
Tune was written for Ed Sawtelle.
Puppet Show was written for John and Mitzi Eaton.
The Double Life was written for Jack Argetsinger.

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