Heading: (Hawaii)
Author: David Earl, editor
Title: Rare Hawaiian Literary & Art Magazine, complete set, 1929-30
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Date Published: 1929-30
Description:

The Honolulu Mercury. Volume 1, No. 1 (June 1929) through Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1930) inclusive. All published. Bound together, with original wrappers, in worn library buckram. Ex-library reading copies, with the usual library stamps, markings, bookplates, etc. Approximately 100pp. each. Illustrated with some color frontispieces.

Complete run (12 issues) of the rare short-lived Honolulu Mercury magazine, possibly echoing H.L.Mencken's irreverent American Mercury but with an uncommon twist -many articles being of Asian interest.

The frontispiece illustrations include Deco-style art by California Japanese-American artist Teikichi Hikoyama ("The Rising Sun"), Armenian-American A.T.Manookian ("Study of a Wahine"), Hollywood actor and South Seas ethnologist Earl Schenck, and Japanese-American printmaker Isami Doi,

Randomly bringing together fiction and non-fiction, pieces of particular Hawaii interest (Nihau, Island of Mystery; Waves of Waikiki; Molokai, Hawaii'a Last Frontier; the Case for Statehood by a Japanese-American), are mixed with articles on Samoa, Fiji, China (a biographic series on Sun Yat-sen and a memoir of an American Woman in Peking), and others related to Asians in the Island - The Outlook for Filipinos in Hawaii, The Chinese in Hawaii; Hawaii as "Melting Pot" of Nations, and a short-story by Chinese culinary authority M.Sing Au,