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The very scarce color version. REDUCED to $1250.00

New listing

Francis Ficke

(Chromolithograph) Destruction of San Francisco by Earthquake and Fire, April 18th, 1906, 12.5 x 35.5 in. Panoramic view of the city in flames after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, with 13 places identified.

$1,250

Very rare 1930's matchbook covers. NEW LOWER PRICE

New listing

n/a

Collection of approx. 340 Japanese matchbox front covers from the 1930's., advertisements for hotels, bars, restaurants, etc., with numerous Art Deco motifs

$495

A fascination collection of European Ephemera.

New listing

Curation & Design: Fabien Barral (Mr. Cup)

Ephemera - a collection in 3 volumes (2022), a collection of letterheads, invoices, business cards, envelopes, identity papers, ferrotypes, Tax stamps, bearer bonds, staged photos, cabinet cards, product catalogs and much more

$275

Spectacular chromolithographs of Hawaiian flowers

Isabella SINCLAIR (Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.)

Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr. (1885), "one of the most prized of Hawaiian books among collectors" (Forbes) and the first book dedicated to Hawaiian flora to be illustrated in color.

$4,450

1st editions, not the 1964 reprints

Suiho Tagawa

Norakuro Corporal & Platoon Leader - 2 early Mangas - (1933/1936), A rare set of two original pre-war Japanese manga books from the celebrated "Norakuro" series by Suiho Tagawa, one of the pioneering figures in the history of Japanese manga.

$595

Very scarce magazine in early Art Deco Style

Ludwig Sternaux (editor)

STYL: Blätter für Mode und die Angenehmen Dinge des Lebens (cover title) - vol II, nos. 1 - 3 (1923), (Style: Magazine for fashion and the pleasant things in life). In German.

$1,450

Publisher Atelier Tadao Ando, in English, Japanese

Tadao Ando

Church on the Water (2025, signed with sketch)

$325

One of only 350 of the Deluxe Edition.

HENRY DILTZ (photographer) Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and over 20 contributors

CSN&Y - LOVE THE ONE YOUR WITH (CROSBY STILLS, NASH AND YOUNG) (signed, 2022), Ltd. Genesis Publications DeLuxe edition with extra print

$795

All 1st Editions with dj. (with some small damage)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Four of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's 'Diaries and Letters' - ALL SIGNED, Bring Me a Unicorn (1922-1928), Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1929-1932), Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1933-1935), The Flower and the Nettle (1936-1939)

$645

High quality Japanese University Press facsimile

Luis de Guzman

"Historia de las Misiones - Que Han Hecho los Religiosos de la Compania de Iesus, para predicar el Sancto Evangelio en la India Oriental, y en los Reynos de la China y Japon.", 2 vol. 1976 facsimile of the 1601 original, publ. in an edition of 200 in Japan

$445

CA volumes from 1969-1991 available on my website

various

CA, THE JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATION ARTS - vol. X, nos. 1 - 6 (1968), volumes from 1969 - 1991 also available on my website

$119

With leaf printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz in 1471

Edwin Charles Hall

Sweynheym & Pannartz and the Origins of printing in Italy: German Technology and Italian Humanism in Renaissance Rome

$825

Art Deco masterwork of advertising with art.

Paul Iribe

Bleu Blanc Rouge - Rose et Noir - Blanc et Rouge. (1930-1932) All three famous Iribe works for Établissements Nicolas complete., Établissements Nicolas and Draeger Freres, at the border between the artist’s book, luxury advertising album and the Art Deco graphic manifesto. See more Nicolas publications on my website.

$375

Incl. letter with drawing from Akira to 'Chris'

Edward Greey (book), Akira (manuscript and letter)

THE BEAR-WORSHIPPERS OF YEZO: And the Island of Karafuto [Saghalin] or The Adventures of the Jewett Family and Their Friend Oto Nambo + Manuscript version of similar story., 1883 book + letter + photos + a manuscript translation/version of THE BEARS IN MT. NAMTOKO, by Kenji Miyazawa, by a Japanese writer/teacher as a birthday gift to a friend.

$425

Frank O'Hara; Bill Berkson (editor)

In Memory Of My Feelings - (1967), A selection of Poems by Frank O'Hara, paired with artwork from 30 different artists.

$395

Gustave DORÉ

La Ménagerie Parisienne (n.d. but 1854), scarce first edition of this superb satirical album created by Gustave Doré, then twenty-two years old. One of the artist’s earliest published works, whose plates were subsequently sold individually.

$895

over 100 1855-1856 DORÉ illustr. + many others

[G. DORÉ] C. PHILIPPON + others

Le Musée français-anglais. Journal d'illustrations mensuelles. Années 1855-1856., monthly Journal of Illustrations. The first two years of this important art magazine, a symbol of the significance of the illustrated press during the Second Empire.

SOLD

A fine copy, free of foxing.

François RABELAIS, Gustave DORÉ (illustr.)

Oeuvres de François Rabelais. Contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel. - Illus. Gustave DORÉ (1854), Doré’s first major work as an illustrator of literary masterpieces. comprising: a frontispiece, 14 separate plates, 89 vignettes

$525

16 full page color lithographs by M. LAURENCIN.

Katherine Mansfield, Marie Laurencin (illustrations)

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Ltd. The Verona Press Edition 1939), - designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at his Officina Bodoni in Verona in 1939

$325

Peter Lik (photographer)

25 Year Anniversary Big Book by Peter Lik (2010, 21.5" x 15.5"), - over 500 prints from the legendary photographer’s first 25 years

$1,150

Nick Relph

Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax - digital street scans of New York City construction posters, A collection of scans, using a library wand scanner, clandestinely collected from building sites' public postings, all over New York City.

$185

Scarce offprint reg. Cook's Australia "discovery"

R. H. Cambage, F.L.S.

Captain Cook's Pigeon House, and Early South Coast Exploration. (1916), The Pigeon House was discovered and named by Captain Cook on the 21st April, 1770, or two days after his discovery of the eastern coast of Australia.

$165

THEODORE BACHAUS, [HENRY MORRIS]

The Booksellers of San Seriffe - 1/200 copies (all numbered 9), Morris' witty successor to "The Private Presses of Sans Serriffe" (1980).

$445

See more 20's,30's Mystery with Dj's on my website

Captain Charles Gilson

The Scarlet Hand - in VG DJ (1927)

$225

signed by Lax and illustrator Antonucci

Robert Lax

The Circus of the Sun - the rare hardcover (1959, ltd., signed), A wonderful collaboration between poet and artist Robert Lax with drawings and design by Emil Antonucci.

$295

ca500 engraved plates of early Britain (1807-1811)

James Storer; John Greig

Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, Containing a Series of Elegant Views of the Most Interesting Objects of Curiosity in Great Britain., 10 Volume Set. Accompanied with Letter-press Descriptions.

$390

The Typography of US Fire Protection Maps

Curation & Design: Fabien Barral (Mr. Cup)

The Alphabet Cities Collection - from the Type Art Archives, Great Typography from US Fire Protection Maps, created back in the 1860s to assess buildings and homes.

$79 $100 or less

Great art with just a few lines.

Eric Gill

25 Nudes Engraved by Eric Gill, with an Introduction, reprint of 1950 in very good dust Jacket

$99 $100 or less

Great early 20th century designs and ornaments

C.J. Strong

Strong's Book of Designs (1917), - Comprising new ideas and designs of every conceivable sort of interest to the Sign Painter, Card Writer and Commercial Artist.

$85 $100 or less

With many Shunga illustrations, several fold-outs

Various Authors

2 issues of Japanese magazine "Ukiyo-e: A Journal of Floating World Art" with special SHUNGA sections, numbers 65 (Feb. 1976), 71 (August 1977)

$99 $100 or less

Alternative Japanese visual culture, Manga

Suehiro Maruo

3-volume collection by Suehiro Maruo: MIDORI (Midori / Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show) - DDT - INUGAMI HAKASE (1988-2011), Suehiro Maruo is one of the most distinctive artists of Japanese underground manga and a major figure associated with the modern ero-guro aesthetic.

$175

Huang Jia Wei -

Polychrome Artbook + Monochrome Artbook

$96 $100 or less

Wholesale price for FIVE Ciardi / Gorey Books

John Ciardi, Edward Gorey (illustrator)

5 (!) John Ciardi books illustrated by Edward Gorey, publ. by Lippincott (1961 - 1970), all with dust jackets - The Man Who Sang the Sillies, You read to me, I'll read to you, You Know Who, The Monster Den, Someone Could Win a Polar Bear

$100 $100 or less

And another book illustrated by Edward Gorey

Doris Orgel - Drawings by Edward Gorey

Merry, Rose, And Christmas- Tree June (Hardcover, 1969)

$99 $100 or less

Hip-hop meets family album and Internet chat-room.

Essay David A. M. Goldberg. Foreword Georgianna Lagoria. Introduction James Jensen

Boys in the Band: Geoffrey Chadsey Drawings 1998-2006, Catalog for the first solo museum exhibition of the drawings of New York artist Geoffrey Chadsey

$99 $100 or less

Let the travelers from the past salute the future!

Josephine Saint-Hilaire (Helena Roerich)

ON EASTERN CROSSROADS: LEGENDS AND PROPHECIES OF ASIA (1st, 1930)

$100 $100 or less

Henry David THOREAU

Journal 1: 1837-1844 and Journal 2: 1842-1848 (Princeton edition, 1984), plus: Thoreau: Early Essays and Miscellanies (Princeton, 1975)

$99 $100 or less

Italo Svevo

The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and other stories

$99 $100 or less

John Muir

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916), Muir's journal of his walk from Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico at age 28.

$99 $100 or less

The Bollingen Series No. XXV

Linda Fierz-David, Mary Hottinger (translation)

The Dream of Poliphilo related and interpreted by Linda Fierz-David, A study and psychological interpretation of the HYPNEROTOMACHIA, a work of the early renaissance.

$75 $100 or less

Texts in Italian, English, French, and German.

Various Authors

Maso Finiguerra. (Journal of Engraved Prints and Illustrated Books) 2 vols: 1939, 1940, multi-lingual

$89 $100 or less

The Gairing Tool Company

The Gairing Tool Company Detroit Michigan Standard Tool Catalog (1929)

$99 $100 or less

Selling books in Finland a hundred years ago

Aksel Kinnanun

Finnish book on Newspaper- and Bookstores in railway stations and elsewhere: LEHTI- JA KIRJAKAUPPA, RAUTATEILLA JA MUUALLA 1910 - 1935

$75 $100 or less

Parallel text in English, French, and Arabic

Sabiha Al Khemir

From Cordoba to Samarqand: Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic art in Doha - De Cordoue à Samarcande (2008), a selection of masterpieces, spanning the art of the entire Islamic world, “from Córdoba to Samarkand”

$85 $100 or less

Fascinating European Archtecture in the Caribbean

M. D. Ozinga

De monumenten van Curaçao in woord en beeld (The monuments of Curacao in text and photos, 1959), Standard work on Dutch colonial architecture on Curaçao; richly illustrated with drawings and photographs;

$85 $100 or less

Rare Books Honolulu, IOBA

Stefan Kruger

2998 Pacific Heights Rd
Honolulu, HI, 96813-1015
United States

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 808-393-5542
Cell: 808-393-5542
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Specialities

Hawaiiana, Limited Editions

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Shipping and Returns

Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Orders usually ship within 2 business days [M-F]. We will provide tracking for all orders. Items shipped via UPS Ground or USPS Mail should arrive within 4-14 business days. We ship from Hawaii. Media Mail can take up to 14 - 20 days just to reach the West Coast by ship. Therefore we ship all smaller and regular sized items within the US by Priority Mail without additional cost to the customer. Oversized or heavy books might have to be shipped by Media Mail. If you're dissatisfied with your purchase (Incorrect Book/Not as Described/Damaged), you're eligible to request a refund within 30 days of the estimated delivery date.

Open Times

online only

Additional Information

Rare Books Honolulu is an online only bookstore in Hawaii for antiquarian rare books, Hawaiiana, limited editions, illustrated books (mainly 20th century), Fine Bindings, as well as 'new but out-of-print books'.

Rare Books Honolulu is a member of IOBA, the INDEPENDENT ONLINE BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION

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