DON BLANDING
Leaves from a Grass House
Cross-Roads Studios, Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory, 1923
Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Publishing Company
Private printing limited to 2,000 copies
Softcover, 57 pages
Poetry by Don Blanding
Cover design by Jean Bernard Shiffer
Frontispiece by John Poole
Decorations by A. S. MacLeod
Dedication:
To one hour of one night between the setting of a tired moon
and the rising of a joyous sun I dedicate my book.
Contents:
| To One Hour of One Night... (dedication) Hawaiian Islands Leaves from My Grass House Glamour's Gone Night-Blooming Cereus Luau Gold Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill Sunset from Mt. Tantalus Hula Dancers Palm Trees Chinese Store |
Chinese Shawls Chinese Music Jewel Trees Foreboding To Leilehua Beamer My Hawaiian Garden Ala Moana Rising Moon Mexican Creeper Sunset Over Waianae Mountains Clearing of the Kona Storm Poinciana Regia Tree |
Footsteps The Moon-Rainbow Silvered Sea Koa Trees in a Mist Purple Bougainvillea Vine Poi To the Artists of Hawaii Some Lines Scratched on the Door of Vagabond's House Vagabond's House Aloha Oe |
Notes:
To Leilehua Beamer was first printed in the Honolulu Advertiser.
Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill, Koa Trees in a Mist, and To the Artists of
Hawaii were first printed in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Poi and My Condiment Shelf were first published by Mr. Kawahara for the
Aji-No-Moto Soup Powder and Condiment Company.
Jewel Trees and Chinese Shawls were first published by Mr. Henry Inn.
Sunset from Mt. Tantalus, Clearing of the Kona Storm, Silvered Sea, and Koa Trees
in a Mist are all based on paintings by Frank M. Moore.
Night-Blooming Cereus was written for Lillian Wilder.
Mexican Creeper was written for Fanny Heaslip Lea.
Later Printing:
Patten Company, Limited, Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory, 1923
Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Publishing Company
2nd through 9th printings were done by Patten in 1923
Softcover, 59 pages
Special to these editions:
Two more pages were added, including a title and copyright page.
The title of Sunset from Mt. Tantalus was changed to Sunset from Kimo's
Garden on Mt. Tantalus.
The title of Some Lines Scrawled on the Door of the Vagabond's House was changed to
Some Lines Scrawled on the Door of Aloha House.
The poem Vagabond's House was replaced by Aloha House.
The poem Leis - for Remembrance was added.
Modern Printings:
Petroglyph Press, Limited, Hilo, Hawaii, January 1972
Paperback, 58 pages
Cover illustration by Mark Waters
Booklines Hawaii Limited, February 1995
Paperback
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