Los Angeles: 1963. 173,20pp., plus five plates. Original pictorial cloth boards, lettered in black and white. Boards slightly bowed, with minor wear and rubbing. Light toning internally. A scarce directory of members of the Hiroshima Prefecture Society (Kenjinkai) of Southern California, with a printed introduction and information about the group..... More

[Hawaii: 1953]. [80]pp. Original textured pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor toning, soiling, and rubbing to wrappers. A rare and densely-packed program issued for the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Army's 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the highly-decorated Japanese-American unit which played an important role in World War II. The program contains historical..... More

Los Angeles: 1949. [220],34,[16],934,[26],20pp., plus numerous additional interleaved advertisements on colored paper. Original red cloth, gilt printed. Covers rubbed, some wear and soiling. Minor soiling to contents. Scarce postwar directory for Japanese emigrants living across the Americas. The focus is California and the American West, but there are also dedicated..... More

Tokyo: Jitsugyo No Nihonsha, 1937. 4,5,456,7,[6]pp., plus three plates. Original cream cloth stamped in blue, black, and gold. In original pictorial slipcase. Moderate staining and soiling to boards. Endpapers toned, very occasional light foxing to text, unobtrusive dampstain to fore-edge. Slipcase very worn and mostly separated, but rarely seen with..... More

Fresno, CA, but printed in Japan: Maha Maya Society, 1954. [2],[8],265,[1]pp., plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original tan boards stamped in silver, original printed dust jacket. Minor wear. A scarce biography of a Japanese-American priest, the title of which roughly translates to "Brilliant Buddhism: From American to Japanese Buddhists." Kyogoku was..... More

Tokyo: 1929. 249pp. Original drab printed wrappers. Spine lightly toned and chipped, light soiling and wear to covers. Inscribed on title page, contemporary ink notation on rear endpapers. First edition. A collection of essays originally published in the Japanese American News; the author worked for the Los Angeles branch of..... More

[Various locations, mainly Tokyo and New York: Mainly 1957-1967]. Twenty-three manuscript letters, signed, totaling fifty-nine pages, plus three postcards, thirteen greeting cards, eighteen photographs, and a small collection of related papers. Occasional wear and fold separations to letters. Otherwise general use wear. An informative archive of correspondence, photographs, and more..... More

Tokyo: Kaigai Kogyo, 1929. [2],4,8,10,416,[4]pp., plus twenty-five double-sided photographic plates (one folding). Original illustrated wrappers printed in blue, green, white, and yellow. Moderate toning, minor edge wear. Light foxing to beginning and end of text block, otherwise internally clean. A rare and informative guide to Brazil intended for Japanese immigrants..... More

[Los Angeles]: Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California, 1960. [1],34,756,[1],67,xi,[2]pp., plus eleven pages of photographic plates. Quarto. Original limp green cloth, gilt spine titles. Minor rubbing and dust-soiling to boards, small bump to top edge, spine titles a bit worn and faded. Internally clean. A massive and detailed historical..... More

Honolulu & Tokyo: 1937. [2],702,[1]pp. plus plates. Original green silk over boards, gilt, t.e.g. Spine faded, corners bumped and rubbed. Contents clean. A very rare history of Japanese-language schools in Hawaii between 1911 and 1937. The work is written entirely in Japanese and illustrated with several plates depicting school children..... More

[Tokyo]: Taku Tsutomu Sho Taku Tsutomu-kyoku [Bureau of Colonial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs], [1939]. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Even toning, minor dust soiling. A short, but dense and illustrated guide to a Japanese agricultural colony founded in Paraguay during the 1930s. The settlement, called "La Colmena," was established outside..... More

[Seattle: 1935]. [2],[84],3,113,[4],324,[12]pp. Text mostly in Japanese. Original dark green limp leatherette, titles stamped in gilt on front cover, in original plain cardboard slipcase with black spine titles. Very minor wear to binding. Modest wear and light soiling to slipcase. Internally clean. The last edition of the scarce yearbooks (previously..... More