Post #564067 by Trader Tom on Mon, Nov 8, 2010 10:13 AM

How about Tiki: A Tahitian Adventure by Charles J Lipscomb (1935 by The Dial Press, New York, 334 pages, 16 B&W photo illustrations) ?

I just picked this book up yesterday at the fleamarket.

I ran a search on Tiki Central but found no reference to it or its author.

It has a great dust jacket design, although my copy is a little battered and mildewed in places. I went on bookfinder.com and there are two pages worth of used copies of this book ranging from $6.50 to $117 but it didn't look like any of them still had their dust jackets intact. Not surprising since the book was published in 1935.

In any case, here is a pic of the front dust jacket and I've re-written the blurb from the interior of the dust jacket below since I couldn't get a clear photo of it.

This charming story of the sojourn of a young American in the gem of the Pacific, mountainous, flower-laden, ocean-ringed Tahiti, will be loved by all to whom the South Seas beckon as the enchanted land of romance. Says Mr. Lipscomb himself: "In these pages I have tried to complete the fascinating ever eluding picture-puzzle of Tahiti--to bring her out of her shroud of rain clouds and sunlit beauty and place her upon paper that will, I hope, reflect her true portrait; one of quiet simplicity, of unadorned beauty--as should become a queen." How beautifully the young author-traveller has succeeded in doing this, all who read his book will appreciate. It is a book of travel and adventure, but it is more--it is the tribute of a lover to his beloved.