South Sea Memories: Gleanings from a Drifting Trail through Isle-Specked Polynesia from Hawaii to the Antipodes

Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 196pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Yellow cloth covered boards with black ink stamped titles. Very good. The edges of the covers are ever so slightly rubbed and bumped. Inscribed by John Quincy Adams on the front free endsheet. A personal account, from a member of the LDS church, of time spent in Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, etc. in the early 1900's immersed in Polynesian culture. Includes multiple photographs. John Quincy Adams was also the author of The Birth of Mormonism. Ex-libris Rosalie Sorrels, American folk singer-songwriter who resides in the mountains of Idaho.