New York, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1937. Near fine first edition hardcover without dust jacket,7.4 X 5.2 X 0.8 inches; 126 pages; inscribed by the author on title-facing page, illustrated by the author and nice, bright period graphics on orange covers, light wear and toning only."Donald Benson Blanding was an American poet, sometimes described as the "poet laureate of Hawaii." He was also a journalist, cartoonist, author and speaker. "(Wikipedia) "I’m willing to bet most people have never heard of Don Blanding—the early 20thcentury poet who illustrated his own work with elaborate pen-and-ink drawings—but I grew up in a household filled with Blanding’s books, prints, and snippets of his verse running through my head. My dad was a fan from my earliest memory and spoke of the poet’s richly woven tableaux as if the places he wrote of might actually exist in the real world and not just in the imagination. All Blanding’s poetry depict highly romantic and idealized locales—South Sea islands awash in color, the scent of jasmine in the air; jungle temples choked in vines and brimming with treasure; Oriental ports-of-call populated with mysterious characters in exotic dress, much in the tradition of Rudyard Kipling and W. Somerset Maugham." (Fifth Color)