Between the Covers

Softcover. Quarto. Stapled flexible paper wrappers with "Photographs" printed in gray on front wrap. Hand-lettering in white on front wrap a bit rubbed, small tears on some leaves, near fine. Album of Ed Bracht's trip to Hawaii, containing 36 large format images of various sizes ranging from 3½" x 4½" to 7½" x 9½", each image captioned in white album ink. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case, with morocco spine label gilt. Images depict indigenous island life including flower vendors and lei girls, a luau at a native home, children, a poi pounder, Chinese and Japanese families, a mixed-race boy (captioned "Negro Chicken Thief"), cliff divers, a tarro plantation, and ends with an interesting image of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco dated after the fire in May, 1908. An organized and aesthetically pleasing illustrated travel narrative.

Item #383774