New York City: Japanese Students' Christian Association in North America, 1926. 39pp. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and fading to edges. A scarce pamphlet issued by the Japanese Students' Christian Association in North America (JSCA, a branch of the YMCA), and written by Roy Hidemichi Akagi, intended as..... More

[Weaverville, Ca. ca. 1910]. Large photograph, about 10 x 14 inches. A bit of scuffing at lower right edge and one small area of top edge. Otherwise, a nice image with good contrast, captioned in negative. This original large photograph captures the historic Chinese-American Joss House temple in Weaverville, California..... More

Healdsburg, Ca. Andrew Price, [ca. 1880s]. Cabinet card photograph, 5.25 x 3.75 inches, on a printed studio mount. Minor wear, one small chip to outer edge of photograph. Minor wear to bottom corners of mount. A sharp studio photograph featuring a young Chinese-American man posed in contemporary pleated jacket, plain..... More

[Various locations, mainly in California and New York: 1953-1959]. Thirty-one letters and postcards; nine photographs; [181]pp. of mostly handwritten notes; plus assorted ephemera. A small but notable archive of materials documenting a portion of Dr. Raymond Feng-chu Chen's experiences as an undergraduate at Harvard and then a medical student at..... More

Havana: September 8, 1880. Partially-printed broadside, 6.5 x 8.25 inches, completed in manuscript in Spanish and Chinese. Small marginal wormhole, mild edge wear, light toning. Ink stamp of the Consulado General at bottom-center. A scarce certificate issued in 1880 by the Chinese Consulate in Havana, authenticating the registration and details..... 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

[Havana: 1857]. Small broadside form, approximately 8.5 x 12.5 inches. Previously folded, with some separation and minor loss along vertical fold. Completed in manuscript, with additional manuscript docketing on blank verso. Ink burn, causing additional minor loss in a few small areas. Light edge wear; some staining and offsetting; light..... More

Havana: 1872. Manuscript form, approximately 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear at edges; a few small worm holes. Contemporary ink stamp. Light tanning and offsetting. This 1872 manuscript form from a Havana jail, the Celaduria de la Punta, notes the death there of an "Asiatico," a Chinese indentured servant, with..... More

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

Los Angeles: Kashu Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1940. [2],2,16,420,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling and light edge wear to wrappers; spine ends a bit chipped; front hinge starting from both ends. Text browned, but not brittle, with scattered foxing and dust soiling. A rare collection of writings by an important Japanese-American activist..... More

[Honolulu: 1924]. 6,[2, blank],8pp. Text printed in English and Japanese. Original blue wrappers, stapled, with titles printed in English on front cover and Japanese on rear cover. Slight wear to wrappers, ink initials on rear cover. An apparently unrecorded pamphlet printing the charter and by-laws of the Prince Fushimi Scholarship..... More

San Francisco: Japanese American News, 1923. [12],740pp. Quarto. Original limp brown cloth, titles stamped on front cover and spine (mostly rubbed away but still readable). Some scuffing to edges, minor surface wear, short tear to cloth at spine tail. Toning to text edges, but internally clean. Front hinge a bit..... More

San Francisco: Published by the Nichi Bei Times Inc., 1952. [8],[8],571,[3]pp. Publisher's blue wrappers printed in white. Profusely illustrated. Two private library labels on spine, remnants of label on inside front cover. Minor edge wear, foxing and light staining to covers and text block edges, short splits to joints. Minor..... More