The Story of Laulii, Daughter of Samoa

Hardcover. Original green cloth with black decoration and ornate gilt title-lettering and cover vignette; ornate spine lettering, gilt, with spine vignette, also gilt, ruled in gilt; bevelled boards. 256 pp. Illustrated with engravings & portraits. With a sketch of the life of Laulii’s husband, Alexander A. Willis (a Canadian). Edited by Wm. H. Barnes. Printed by Jos. Winterborn & Co., San Francisco. Ink inscription on front pastedown; spine tips & corners rubbed; some shelf-rubbing; endpaper slightly split over front hinge; edges foxed, and some foxing throughout, but interior almost wholly clean & bright. Spine advertises the book as “published by herself”, but copyright is in the name of her husband, Alexander Willis.