DON BLANDING
"Vagabond's House"
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1928
Hardback, 114 pages
Poetry, Illustrations & Decorations by Don Blanding
Dedication:
To the restless ones
To all the gallant frantic fools
Who follow the path of the sun
Across blue waters
To distant mountains
I dedicate my book
Acknowledgements to the Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, The Honolulu Advertiser, M. Kawahara, Henry Inn,
Ching Chong the Candlemaker and Patten Co., Ltd., for use of many of my verses.
Contents:
| To the Restless Ones... (dedication) Vagabond's Road (preface) Some Lines Scrawled on the Door of Vagabond's House Vagabond's House Gold Names are Ships Driftwood Wild Geese Centaur Song of the Senses The Poet and the Woman Drifter Dream Island A Response Dreamer The Candlemaker Chinese Music Jewel-Trees Chinese Store Chinese Shawls Leaves from My Grass House Poi Purple Bougainvillea Vine |
Poinciana Regia Tree Footsteps Glamour's Gone Koa Trees in a Mist Rising Moon Sunset over Waianae Mountains Baby Street Sea Butterflies Honolulu Curry Diamond Head Kilauea, the Volcano Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill Clearing of a Kona Storm Palm Trees Luau, an Hawaiian Feast Hula Dancers Ala Moana My Hawaiian Garden Night-Blooming Cereus How To Know Hawaii Leis... For Remembrance Vagabond's Loot To Don May Twilight |
From a Javanese Batik Hawaiian Driftwood Someday Icarus Two Who Followed the Path of the Sun Mother Foreboding Hollywood Fire In Ice Philanderer Prodigal's Song Aftermath At a Luau, Hawaiian Feast To Leilehua Homesick for the Fair Islands Dawn in the Islands Secret Place Brocade Fragment What is Hawaii? To One Hour of One Night Dwellers in Far Islands Aloha Oe, It's Meaning Pau |
Illustrations:
| Vagabond's House Vagabondage To the Restless Sea The Poet and the Woman |
Dream Island Joss and Jade Coral and Lava Sea Butterflies |
Hula Moons Vagabond's Loot |
Notes:
Some Lines Scrawled on the Door of Vagabond's House
and Vagabond's House first appeared only in the 1st edition of Leaves from a
Grass-House published by Cross-Roads Studios. Leis... For Remembrance was
first published in the 2nd edition of Leaves from a Grass-House by Patten Co. The
following poems first appeared in both versions of Leaves from a Grass-House: Gold, Chinese
Music, Jewel-Trees, Chinese Store, Chinese Shawls, Leaves from My Grass House, Poi, Purple
Bougainvillea Vine, Poinciana Regia Tree, Footsteps, Glamour's Gone, Koa Trees in a Mist,
Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill, Clearing of a Kona Storm, Luau, Hula Dancers, Ala Moana, My
Hawaiian Garden, Night-Blooming Cereus, Foreboding, To Leilehua, and Aloha Oe. The
beginning of To One Hour of One Night was the dedication of Leaves from a
Grass-House. The following poems first appeared in the book Paradise Loot:
Diamond Head, The Candlemaker, From a Javanese Batik, Baby Street, Sea Butterflies,
Honolulu Curry, Brocade, At a Luau, To Don May, Secret Place, A Response, Dawn in the
Islands, Twilight, and Homesick for the Fair Islands. Someday was first
published in the book Flowers of the Rainbow.
Night-Blooming Cereus was written for Lillian Wilder.
Leis... For Remembrance was written for Leatrice Joy.
To Don May is written for Donald May, a friend from Bend, Oregon
who went climbing with Blanding in the Cascades.
Someday was written for Earl Cohan, but in later editions was changed to Earl
Challenger.
Icarus was written for a good friend and gallant flier who crashed.
Two Who Followed the Path of the Sun was written for the pilots Maitland and
Hegenberger.
Mother was written for Ida Kimble Blanding, the author's mother.
Fire in Ice was written for Fanny Heaslip Lea.
Special Printings:
21st edition, red leather in slipcase, 1937
25th edition, blue leather in slipcase, 1940
(25th and later editions have extra illustrations added)
Modern Printings:
Buccaneer Books, Incorporated, Jan 1992
Applewood Books, April 2002
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