Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however.
By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.In her April 1959 column, she wrote: "I have just heard that author James Michener, with whom I had several pleasant conversations in Honolulu, is arriving here."Ī fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket. Parsons was "the most formidable of all Tinseltown gossip columnists" (Parish, Hollywood Book of Extravagance, 169). Michener's warm inscription to Louella Parsons, known as "the first lady of Hollywood," likely refers to her Irish descent through her maternal grandmother. With "11/59" on front dust jacket flap: first reviewed in the New York Times on November 22, 1959. Also issued in a signed limited edition (400 copies), no priority established. "First printing" stated on copyright page. His novel was the basis for director George Roy Hill's 1966 Oscar-nominated film from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, starring Max von Sydow and Julie Andrews. Praised as "brilliant panoramic novel" ( New York Times Book Review), it is "a monumental chronicle of Hawaii, an extraordinary and fascinating novel' ( Saturday Review). Hawaii reflects Michener's continuing fascination with the Pacific region, begun 12 years earlier in his Pulitzer prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific.
21, 1959, To Louella herself, May the pixies guard her, may the spalpeens adore her, And may the echoes of Ireland resound in her heart forever, Love, Jim Michener."
Octavo, original beige cloth, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket.įirst trade edition, first printing, of Michener's epic novel, wonderfully inscribed by him to Louella Parsons on the title page in the month prior to publication, "At Louella's Oct. "TO LOUELLA HERSELF": SCARCE PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION FIRST EDITION OF HAWAII, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY MICHENER TO LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD COLUMNIST LOUELLA PARSONS PRIOR TO PUBLICATION
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