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

Guadalajara: Tipografía de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1903. [2],23pp. Original printed green wrappers. Two staples in gutter margin; wrappers faded at edges. Minor dampstaining at top edge; even tanning. A small, apparently unrecorded, pamphlet with details of the history of Guadalajara and statistics regarding the city's population. The..... More

[Chicago]: W.B. Conker Company, 1897. [12]pp. Publisher's self wrappers printed in red, white, blue, and black, the interior text printed in red and black. The whole printed on linen. Moderate wear and rubbing, minor soiling and toning, some light bleedthrough from the portions printed in red. A rare educational book..... More

Glendora, Ca. Pacifica Library Associates, 1942. [2],137,[4] leaves. Folio. Reproduced typescript, with "Explanatory Note" taped to inside front cover. Original brad-bound, printed card wrappers. Light wear. Without the five leaves of "Authors cited" at the end, as noted in the OCLC record, but perhaps not present in all copies. A..... More

Nueva York: Por Don Jorge W. Halsey, y Hermanos, 1838. ix,14pp., plus thirty-five engraved plates. Oblong quarto. Original half calf and patterned cloth, spine and front board gilt. Hinges cracking, with some separation at head of front joint; foot of spine chipped. Light wear and soiling to boards. Moderate toning..... 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 & Japan: Aoki Taisei-Do, 1929]. [56]pp. In Japanese. Original printed, stiff wrappers, cloth-backed. Minor wear and scattered staining to wraps. Light tanning internally. A fascinating and scarce Japanese-language textbook, intended for use by Japanese-American children in California during the late 1920s. The work was published by Aoki Taisei-Do..... More

Guadalajara: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1840. 23pp., plus folding chart. Original printed wrappers. Small area of staining on title page. Light dust soiling, minor edge wear. A scarce supplement to the government journal of Jalisco state, printed in 1840. This pamphlet carries information and statistics on the development of primary schools..... More

Guadalajara: Apud Mariannum Valdez Tellez Giron, [1807-1808]. Three stitched fascicles, totaling [30] manuscript leaves and fifteen printed broadsides and broadsheets, completed both in manuscript and in type. Some folded. Straight, vertical cuts from foot of one fascicle. Some dust soiling and toning; scattered damp staining and foxing. A few separations..... More

Puebla: Reimpreso por Pedro N. Alarcon, 1892. [4],201,[1]pp. 12mo. Original quarter sheep and pebbled cloth, spine blind tooled and gilt lettered. Extensive, contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper verso. Light edge wear, spine and boards well rubbed. Initial gathering coming loose. Moderate tanning and scattered foxing. Second edition, after..... More

Cape Girardeau, Mo. 1875-1892. [138]pp. of manuscript content. Folio. Contemporary preprinted record book, with some pages partially-printed and completed in manuscript and some pages with wholly manuscript content, bound in three-quarter calf and brown pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles. Some abrasions and wear to spine and edges, minor rubbing and..... More

[Tomah, Wi. ca. 1931]. Four photographs, ca. 4 x 6 inches. Minor wear. Images clear. Four images picturing students from the Federal Indian School in Tomah, Wisconsin in the early half of the 20th century. One pictures a whole class group, while the other three show female students dressed for..... More

[Various locations around New York City: Chester Studios and others, 1950-1960]. Eighty-eight black-and-white photographs, most approximately 8 x 10 inches, with five in slightly smaller format. Minor wear, some with adhesive remnants on versos, a few with editorial markings in the image area, most with photo credits and other information..... More