[Colt Press | Limited to 90 Copies] Kamehameha

Burke, Marie Louise. Kamehameha, King of the Hawaiian Islands: The Story of His Life and of Captain Cook’s Visits to these Islands in the Years 1778–1779. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1939. Tall 8vo. Limited to a total of 486 copies, of which this is one of 90 copies illuminated by hand. Decorations and illustrations by Mallette Dean. Presswork by Lawton R. Kennedy. Typography by Jane Grabhorn. Printed on Vidalon paper, uncut. Original pink pictorial paper-covered boards, with lettering and decorations in white. Measures approx. 7.75" x 11.5". Spine light sunned, some foxing to edges of pages. Sunning to slipcase.