[Japan: 1932-1940]. Seven textbooks, between 36 and 136pp., with four bound in color-printed pictorial wrappers with cloth backstrips, two bound in full brown cloth with gilt titles on spine and front cover, one in quarter tan cloth and plain boards with gilt titles on front board. Minor soiling and light..... More
[Honolulu: 1943]. [6]pp., typed on carbon paper, with a few pencil annotations and corrections, stapled at corner. Some toning and creasing, edges a bit frayed, first leaf with only minor marginal chipping. Evidently a draft intended to be printed as a pamphlet or leaflet speaking out against the incarceration of..... More
[Various locations, including Iwo Jima: ca. 1944]. [19] leaves, illustrated with 135 black-and-white silver gelatin photographs in mounting corners, most 3.25 x 2.25 inches, plus Mar's "Neptunus Rex" card, also mounted. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black textured leather, string tied, with "Photographs" in gilt on front cover. Very minor edge wear..... More
Honolulu: Hawaii Times, 1958. [8],191,[3]pp., plus four leaves of plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear and soiling to wraps. Light toning internally; slight instances of biopredation at lower corners of final leaves. Second edition of this extremely scarce Japanese-language guidebook to Hawaii, published in 1958 just before statehood. "A general..... More
![Item #3933 Hawai Inshoki [Impressions of Hawaii]. Keiji Uehara](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3933_01.jpg?v=1678722393)
Tokyo: Shinkosha, 1924. [2],4,[2],4,[26],192,[4]pp., plus three folding maps at rear. Original printed cloth boards, with contemporary glassine wrapper affixed to pastedowns; in original cardstock box with printed paper labels. Minor fading and soiling to cloth. Early ownership inscription and owner's ink stamps on rear pastedown. Light toning internally. Moderate wear..... More
Havana: August 3, 1867. [7]pp. on pre-printed folio forms completed in manuscript. Later staple. Moderate tanning and edge wear, short separations along some folds. A manuscript manifest listing of 285 Chinese field hands, who undoubtedly signed up as indentured laborers in their quest to escape the hardships of China in..... More
Osaka: [Taio Gold Mining Co.?], 1936. [8],134,57,[36]pp., plus three folding maps and plates. Extensively illustrated in the text with photographs and blueprints. Original blue cloth stamped in white on the front cover. In original tan cardboard slipcase, spine lettered in black. Soiling to slipcase and boards. Minor edge wear. First..... More
[N.p., likely San Luis Obispo]: Aston, [1947 or earlier]. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 29.25 inches. "Aston Photo Shop" stamp on verso. Small crease at lower left corner, otherwise a very nice image. A somber scene of the funeral of a Japanese-American child, photographed by Frank Aston, a notable photographer in..... More
![Item #2341 Funeral of the Late Shigeki Yokota [caption title in Japanese, translated to English]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2341.jpg?v=1678130295)
Fresno: Kamiyama, 1954. Panoramic photograph, 10 x 38 inches. Minor wear and occasional soft creasing. A substantial panoramic photograph depicting the somber scene of the funeral of Fresno resident Shigeki Yokota on September 8, 1954. A couple of hundred mourners pose for the camera at the corner of 9th and..... More
![Item #3920 Burajiru hojin jinmeiroku [Brazilian Japanese Directory]. Shindo Kenkichi](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3920_01.jpg?v=1678130300)
Sao Paulo, Brazil: Yamashita Hiroto, 1959. [4],768,[44]pp. Original green cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine. In original issue orange cardboard slipcase, black titles on front cover and spine. Minor edge wear, some fading to spine titles, light wear to joints. Occasional light foxing, mostly to endpapers and text..... More
![Item #3919 Obei kiyu niman-sanzenri [23,000 Miles Through American and Europe]. Shukotsu Togawa](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3919_01.jpg?v=1678122990)
Tokyo: Hattori Shoten, 1908. [2],3,6,448,50,[1]pp., plus twenty-two plates. Original publisher's cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Some abrading to boards and spine, modest edge wear, one small chip to spine. Occasional minor foxing, hinges a bit tender, small chip to front pastedown. A Meiji-era writer travels..... More
Tokyo: Hokubai kanno doshikai honbu, 1904. Broadside, 21 x 7 inches. Old folds and wrinkles, a few pin holes in the upper margin, with the Hokubei Kanno Doshikai red chop stamp in lower margin. A very rare and seemingly-unrecorded 1904 colonization scheme document issued by Hokubei Kanno Doshikai, promoting investment..... More
[Oakland]: Daireikyo Kenkyujo, 1950. [14],336,[2],59,[1]pp., plus one two-sided plate. Original illustrated wrappers, printed in black, blue, red, and white, blue cloth backstrip with titles printed in yellow. Some scuffing and chipping to extremities, moderate sunning and rubbing to spine. Front hinge somewhat tender. Internally clean. The important first volume of..... More