Post #2636 by floratina on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 11:21 AM

Although I don't own the book, I got some info about it from someone who had
this to say about it:

Apparently the author is a passionate collector of Hula girl ephemera, and when he approached Schiffer Books, a collector's book publisher, to make a book with his material, they were interested only under the condition that he would include some Tiki stuff, so they could add the "Tiki Gods" moniker, to be hip.

Unfortunately the result shows this: 10 Years of Hula girl collecting and 1 year of tiki collecting resulting in 170 pages of great wahine images, and 30 pages of mediocre tiki mugs and objects (a few even doubled up to fill the space). Schiffer books are amateurishly laid out, on their covers and inside (their previous Hawaiiana book is a sad example, too) and (have to) include price guides that are pretty arbitrary.

But still, this book is a great South Seas maiden pictorial, just forget about the tiki part.