Hardcover. Honolulu, Tongg Publishing, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with a color pictorial paste-down on the front cover. 48 pages, color illustrations by Cornelia MacIntyre Foley. True first edition of 1940 from original Hawaiian publisher (the 1952 reissue is often mistakenly identified as the first). A little Hawaiian girl explores the crater of Kilauea in search of the legendary Madame Pele the Fire Goddess; she meets a mysterious old woman living in The Green Cottage (Madame Pele herself??) who gives her a basket of flowers. Some discoloration to the maroon cloth on front, inscription on front endpaper, light bump to top corner.
