DON BLANDING
Paradise Loot
Patten Company, Limited, Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory, 1925
Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Press
Three known printings were done by Patten in 1925
Softcover, 57 pages
Poetry, Cover Design & Full Page Illustrations by Don Blanding
Decorations by Iwilani Basler, Juliette May Fraser, John Kelly, A.S. MacLeod and The
Hawaii Tourist Bureau.
Dedication:
To those of you who made this dreamer's dream come true....
gave me my year of great adventure...let me dream anew...
most gratefully I dedicate my book to you.
Contents:
| I Give You as Greeting from Hawaii... To Those of You... (dedication) We Who Live Here... Paradise Loot Colors of Paradise Almost Any Night To Poets and Artists Torch-Light Fisherman Diamond Head Kilauea A Kamaaina Speaks.... When it Rains The Candle Maker Drifters From a Javanese Batik in a Fort Street Window |
From a Javanese Batik in a Fort Street Window Baby Street (Down Palama Way) Jasmine House Sketch, Morning on the Beach Bon Voyage Black Point Sons of the Surf Sea Butterflies Curry Query Koa Trees Brocade Luau At St. Clements on Wilder Avenue To Don May... |
Secret Place A Response Truant Rainbow Happiness Dawn in the Islands Vagabond's Heart Dreamer Movies in Honolulu Waikiki At the Ruins of an Ancient Heiau Twilight Yesterday's Men Homesick for the Islands, In New York Aloha Oe |
Notes:
Jasmine House is based on the home of Carl and Iwalani
Basler.
To Don May is written for Donald May, a friend from Bend, Oregon who went
climbing with Blanding in the Cascades.
Aloha Oe and Luau are not the same poems as the same-titled poems in Leaves
from a Grass-House.
Later Printing:
Patten Company, Limited, Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory, 1925
Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin Publishing Company
Softcover, 56 pages
Special to these editions:
One less page than 1st edition, including the deletion of the index..
The title of A Kamaaina Speaks... was changed to How To Know Hawaii.. -
the accompanying illustration was removed.
Many pages were rearranged in a different order.
Modern Printing:
Petroglyph Press, Limited, Hilo, Hawaii, October 1978
New typesetting and additional illustrations
Paperback, 53 pages
Petroglyph Press, Limited, Hilo, Hawaii, May 2000
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