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Honolulu: Women's Board of Mission for the Pacific Islands, 1968. 150th anniversary edition. Previous owner's ink name on front end paper. Foxing from dust soiling along top edge. otherwise a clean, unmarked very good+ trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)/ no dust jacket. 8vo. Obookiah at age 15 shipped aboard the Triumph & eventually landed in Cornwall, CT, where he began his formal education. Little did he know that his presence would trigger everlasting change in the Sandwich Islands; 109 pages, foldout map intact & firmly affixed.

New Haven: Office of The Religious Intelligencer, 1818. First Edition. Full Leather. Good/No Dust Jacket (as issued). B/w Frontis. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. In full brown leather with red spine label, title in gilt, 12mo, 109+34+34+10pp. (spine restored professionally retaining the original title label; Shelfear, rubbing and scoffing to extremities, endpapers and pages browned from age, name to endpaper, frontis appears trimmed and reset). Several works bound together. Includes the main title work plus "A Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Henry Obookiah"; "A sermon delivered at he inauguration of the Rev. Herman Daggett As principal of the Foreign Mission School" & "An Inauguration address delivered at the opening of the foreign Mission School". A very scarce early american imprint.