Add this copy of Today is Here to cart. $8.95, very good condition, Sold by Orca Books Cooperative rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Olympia, WA, UNITED STATES, published by Dodd, Mead & company.
Add this copy of Today is Here to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Kubik Fine Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dayton, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1946 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
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Very Good. 143p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. A few faint smudges on back cover. Spine ends lightly rubbed and endpapers foxed. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly chipped and worn, but largely intact. A book of poetry by the "poet laureate of Hawaii."
Add this copy of Today is Here [Signed & Insc By Author] to cart. $17.50, very good condition, Sold by Dorley House Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hagerstown, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1946 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
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Author Illus. Very Good. No Jacket. 8 Vo; 1.5 Pound. SIGNED & Insc By Author 1st printing; blue c w/gilt decorations; 141 clean, unmarked pages. in mylar protective wraps.
Add this copy of Today is Here [Signed & Insc By Author] to cart. $18.45, very good condition, Sold by Dorley House Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hagerstown, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1946 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
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Author Illus. Very Good. No Jacket. 12 vo. SIGNED & Insc By Author 2nd printing; blue c w/gilt decorations; 141 clean, unmarked pages. in mylar protective wraps.
Add this copy of Today is Here (Signed) to cart. $20.41, very good condition, Sold by Gene W. Baade Books on West rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Renton, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1946 by Dodd, Mead & Co.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. The beautiful design on the front cover is all in gilt except for lettering & image highlights. Cloth. 143pp. Illustrated with nice woodcuts by Blanding. Signed "Aloha Don Blanding" with his device. Custom bookplate on front paste down. A bit musty, but vg in dj with closed triangle tear & tiny chips.
Add this copy of Today is Here to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by Princeton Antiques Bookservice rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlantic City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1946 by DODD, MEAD & COMPANY.
Add this copy of Today is Here [ Anecdotes, Poetry, Prose, Verse, to cart. $50.95, good condition, Sold by Great Pacific Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ventura, CA, UNITED STATES, published by New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1946.
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Fully Illustrated. Good Clean Cond. No Dust Jacket. Book. POPULAR TITLE OF INTEREST. Signed by Author(s) Embossed and gilt Hardback: hard cover edition in good or better condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Overall good copy of this title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. About the author: Donald Benson Blanding (November 7, 1894-June 9, 1957) was an American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii". He was also known as a journalist, author of prose, and speaker. Blanding was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma (during the period as a territory prior to that state's creation). He trained between 1913 and 1915 at the Art Institute of Chicago. He enlisted (for a year, or the duration of World War I plus up to six months) in the Canadian Army's predominantly 97th ("American Legion") Battalion. He then trained with them for trench warfare for eight months in 1916, but leaving service under unknown circumstances a few days before the unit shipped out for Europe. (He omitted reference to that service and training a year later in joining the U.S. military. ) Blanding soon became suddenly fascinated by Hawaii and traveled there, staying for the year until his enlistment in the U.S. Army in December, 1917. Entering as an infantry private, he underwent officer training and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant before being discharged in December, 1918, soon after the Armistice. He pursued further art studies in 1920, in Paris and London, traveled in Central America and the Yucatan, and resumed living in Honolulu in 1921. Finding work as an artist in an advertising agency, he happened into two years of writing poems published daily in the Honolulu Star Bulletin for an advertiser. These featured local people and events, and became well-known and popular--whether because of or in spite of always mentioning the Aji-No-Moto brand of MSG. The popularity of these ad-poems led Blanding to follow the advice of newspaper colleagues by publishing a collection of his poetry in 1923. When his privately published 2000 copies quickly sold out, he followed it with a commercially published edition the same year, and with additional verse and prose books. For his fifth book in 1928, he no longer used a local or West Coast publisher, but the New York publisher Dodd, Mead & Company. The result, Vagabond's House, was reviewed promptly by the New York Times, and was a great commercial success.