Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880. First Edition. HB. Brown cloth, gilt design and lettering on front cover,gilt lettering on spine, small 8vo, 299 pp., brown endpapers. Frontis illustration of palm trees, and 2 full-page plates within text. Fold-out map of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Half title page and frontis, with tissue guard, detached, but present, rear hinge starting to crack, owners name and inscription on ffep. No marks in book. Covers show minor edge wear. Book condition Good+.

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Bookseller: Parker's Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: LZ7945
Title: Aloha" A Hawaiian Salutation
Author: Chaney, George Leonard
Format/Binding: HB
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Roberts Brothers
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1880
Bookseller catalogs: Travel;

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