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Don Blanding's Books


Drifter's Gold (1939)

Contents

Aloha
An Island of Your Own
Bonds
Camera Angle
Daughter of Magdalene
Death of a God
Dedication
Desert Cemetery
Devil's Wind
Drifter's Gold
Eyes of the Beholder
Face of the Desert
Harvest
Here's Spring Again
Island Brotherhood
Island Perfumes
It's Easier Said Than Done
Kapakahi
King Coral's Green-Blue Realm
Kona Holiday
Lava Flows at Night
Little Sorrows
Mahalo Nui Oe
Mistress
Murder Story

My First Love...My Last Love
Mystery Stories
Nature Lover
Night in the Redwoods
Ol' Clothes
Prairie Boy and the Sea
Progression
Puppet Show
Pyre
Quest
Rival
Shadows of Beauty
Slogan
Some Man Will Call It "Home":
The Desert
The Northland
The Jungle
Song of the West:
Cliff Dwellers
Conquistadores
The Fossils
The Glaciers
The Pioneers
Star Net
Street Scene
The Beast
The Blind Chanter
The Butterfly Veil
The Conjure Flower
The Double Life
The Free Ones
The Friendly Day
The Goofus Bird
The Guardian of All Green,
Growing Things
The Guardians of Dreams
The Heiau on the Hill
The Mountain and the Clod
The White Flame
Three Score and Ten
Transient Flames
Tune
Tutu
Tutu (Hawaiian Translation)
Vagabond's Pack
Via "Coconut Wireless"
View from the Upper Road, Kona
Why I Like Blue
Wind-Harp Pool
Winter Sea


Illustrations

Aloha
Angel's Ladder
Bird of Paradise Flower
Blue Pool
Carmel Cypress
Conjure Flower
Coral Fan
Daughter of Magdalene
Dedication
Desert Gold
Dreamer's Gold

Drifter's Gold
Face of the Desert
Frontispiece
Frozen Gold
Hawaiian Gold
King Coral
King Coral's Daughter
Lining Papers (frnt, bk)
Magnolias
Mermaid's Gold
Mirage
Mountain Columbines
Sea Butterflies
Spider Lilies
Star Net
Stephenotis
The Beast
The Butterfly Veil
The Guardian of All Green,
Growing Things
Western Gold
White Ginger Blossoms


Floridays (1941)

Contents

Better to Have Loved
Birthday
Cap'n Whizz Says
Carved Ivory
Chorus of Welcome
Dangerous Curves
Fishin' in de Ditch
Flamingos
Hanging Gardens
Heart of the Land
Heaven Is One Flight Up
House in a Hammock
I Used to Say
June 13th
June Frills
Jungle Storm

Lime Pie
Love in the Everglades
Marineland
Mr. and Mrs. Fancy-Pants
Mystery -- South of Us
Neighbors of the Soil
Now I Believe
Orange Blossoms
Pelican
Picture Album
Sea-Oats
Seminoles
Signs of the Times
Singing Tower
Skies Above Florida
Snooky
Soul of the Land
Souvenirs
Tabu
Tarpon
The Forest of Two Skies
The Jungle Waits
The Tranquil Hour
To Dorothy
To Florida
To You
Toast to Today
Tragedy of the Road
Vampire
Veto
Water Hyacinths


Leaves from a Grass House (1923)

Contents

Ala Moana
Aloha Oe
Chinese Music
Chinese Shawls
Chinese Store
Clearing of the Kona Storm
Footsteps
Foreboding
Glamour's Gone
Gold
Hawaiian Islands

Hula Dancers
Jewel Trees
Koa Trees in a Mist
Leaves from My Grass House
Leis -- for Remembrance
Luau
Mexican Creeper
My Hawaiian Garden
Night-Blooming Cereus
Poi
Poinciana Regia Tree
Purple Bougainvillea Vine
Silvered Sea
Some Lines Scrawled on the
Door of Aloha House
Somewhere on Punchbowl Hill
Sunset from Kimo's Garden
on Mt. Tantalus
The Moon-Rainbow
To Leilehua Beamer
To the Artists of Hawaii


Memory Room

Coming Soon!

Paradise Loot

Coming Soon!

Pictures from Paradise (1936)

Coming Soon!


Pilot Bails Out (1943)

Contents

A Boy Grows Up
A Journey Ends
A Soldier Asks
Air and Leopards
Angels of Bataan
Armed with Laughter
Bataan Falls
Blackout and Eclipse
Blood Donors
Boys on Sleds
Closed for Duration
Dedication
Earth Speaks to Hitler
Fate
Five Friendly Ghosts
Flyer's Halo

Gods-Eye View
Good Old Days
Icarus
No Time for Pessimists
Pilot Bails Out
Pilot Bails Out (Foreword)
Preview of a Feature Film
Privates' Private Lives
Rookie's Dream
Shipping List
Soldier, What Did You See?
Soldier's Baby
Soldier's Bed
Some Snakes Are Harmless
Somehow
Surgery
Take It Easy, Fellow
The Humble Brave
The Sky-Born
These Treasured Days
They Speak of God
Three Old Wishes...Three Old Dreams
Time
Veteran Heart
What Can I Do
What Price Medals
Why?
Winged Men
Winged Visitors:
Two Who Followed the Path of the Sun
Two Who Sullied the Path of the Sun
X Marks the Spot
You Did Not Kill


The Rest of the Road (1937)

Contents

A Study in Epidermis
A Wish
Acknowledgment and Mahalo
Ah Mang Chu
Aloha House
An Old Texas Custom
Antique Shop
As You'll Find for Yourself
Beachcomber
Belated Explanation
Black Swan
Carmel-By-The Sea
Castles in Spain
Clock
Color-Scheme in Humble Colors
Compensation
Crosses Against the Sun
Dedication, To My Lone Wolf Brother, Scotty
Drums for the Death of a Chief
Exiles from the Islands
Faithful
Flower Girl
From Here to There
Gardenia Lei

Harp String
Haunted Heart
Inspiration
Lei Day
Letter of Inquiry
Liquid Sunshine
Magic Carpet
Memory Garden
Moon Brocade
Moon-Moths
New Mexican Scene
No Hope
Oddly Enough
Oil Wells Afire
Omen
Postscript
Remembering A Wish
Side Roads
Sketch of a Vagabond's Life
Song of the South Seas
Song of the Desert
Stars for Friends
Summer's Ending
The Birth of June
The Color Game
The Cruise of the Spun-Glass Ship
The Darker Pain
The End of the Road
The Healer
The Lacquer Mask
The Midas Touch
The Peacock Girls
The Rest of the Road
The Sixth Sense
The Story Behind 'The Cruise of the Spun-Glass Ship'
Things Forgotten
This Nagging Urge
To A Lady I Loved
To Granny Harris
To Heyou
Unreal Estate
Vagabond's House on Wheels
West
What's in a Name?
When Beauty Strikes Too Deep
Winged Journey

Illustrations

A Little Less Than Human
Ah Mang Chu
Black Swan
Chain-of-Love
Crosses Against the Sun
Frost
Hawaii

Ivory
Moon Brocade
Moon-Moth
Nirvana
Pictures in a Crystal
Road Signs
Roadside Lace (endpapers)
Scheherezade
Silhouette of the Author
Spun-Glass Ship
The Lacquer Mask
The Peacock Girl
The Siren Voice
The Sixth Sense



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