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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