HAWAII'S STORY BY HAWAII'S QUEEN
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1964. Third printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 9 in. x 6 in., pp. xviii, 414. Illustrated with frontis photographs and 19 additional plates. Shiny silk blue boards with gilt crown and title to front; gilt title to spine. Light shelfwwear to edges. Two small stains to top-edge. Silver and silk endpapers. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to dustjacket edges with touch of sunning to dustjacket spine. Two small nicks to dustjacket's fore-edge. Toning to dustjacket flaps due to contact with the silk endpapers. Protected in mylar. Very Good / Very Good Minus. Item #100828
Liliuokalani (1838 - 1917) was the first and only reigning Hawaiian queen and the last Hawaiian sovereign to govern the islands, which were annexed by the United States in 1898. As head of the ‘Onipa‘a (meaning “resolute”) movement, whose motto was “Hawaii for the Hawaiians,” Liliuokalani fought bitterly against annexation of the islands by the United States. Annexation nonetheless occurred in July 1898, and she surrendered peacefully. Thereafter she withdrew from public life, enjoying a government pension and the homage of islanders and visitors alike.
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