Tokyo: Nihon Kokusai Shinzen Kosei Zaidan, 1963. 384pp., plus twelve halftone plates. Original green cloth, spine gilt lettered; publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase. Small bump to head of spine. Light tanning. "An autobiography of an Issei nursery operator in Gardena [California] with essays on American life, money-making..... More

San Francisco: 1938. 34pp. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Ink stamp on front cover, later paper label at top of spine. Minor wear and soiling, internally clean. A rare issue of this San Francisco phone directory published by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for the local Chinese community, printed..... More

Matanzas: [ca. 1890-1967]. 120 separate original documents, totaling [145]pp., mostly typed but with the earlier documents in manuscript, sewn together along left margin, remnants of wrappers along threads. Minor occasional foxing, varying levels of toning, a few documents chipped or worn along edges. Rare compilation of original documents relating to..... More

[Playa Varadero: 1960]. Two printed forms, completed in manuscript. Previously folded. Moderate wear and occasional soiling. A pair of printed forms filled out in manuscript that comprise an agreement for a woman of Asian, probably Chinese, descent named Josefa Lam Chang to rent property in the beach town of Varadero..... More

[Various places in Cuba, including Havana, Matanzas, Coral Nuevo, Pinar del Rio, and others: ca. 1860-1881]. Ninety-one documents, varying sizes, totaling about [150]pp. Some chipping and wear at edges. Moderate tanning and foxing. Occasional worming, not seriously affecting text. A large group of over ninety printed and manuscript items that..... More

Macau: April 6, 1867. [6]pp., on large folio partially-printed forms, printed in two columns, completed in manuscript. Old folds with minor losses at a few spots along the horizontal fold. Five hundred and fifty Chinese laborers bound for Cuba aboard the Spanish galley "Cervantes" are listed by name, with their..... 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

Tokyo: Seikyosha, 1914. [2],3,1,18,498,[1]pp., plus forty-six plates (two folding). Text in Japanese. Original blue pebbled cloth, gilt titles stamped on front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Minor shelf wear to boards. Binding a bit cracked at page 80, scattered, mostly minor foxing. An acerbic memoir by Japanese author Toichiro..... More

[Greater Los Angeles Area: 1920s and 1930s]. Thirty loose photographs, mostly studio portraits in original studio folders, 5.5 x 3.5 inches to 11 x 14 inches, with most at least 8 x 10 inches, some captioned in manuscript Japanese on versos or studio mounts, plus six calligraphic certificates in Japanese..... More

[N.p., likely Southern California: ca. 1940s]. Silver gelatin photograph, 11 x 13.75 inches. Some creasing and dampstaining, a few creases and short closed tears, handful of small scuffs in image area, some darkening along right edge, some minor silvering. A substantial photograph featuring a large group of well-dressed Japanese-American youths..... More

[Various locations in Japan and the United States, mainly Seattle: 1922-1983]. [50] leaves, illustrated with 247 photographs and five photographically-illustrated Christmas cards. Large quarto. Contemporary blue cloth photograph album with blindstamped designs on front cover and spine, coil binding. [with:] Approximately 1,440 loose photographs and twenty-nine photographically-illustrated Christmas cards. Photographs..... 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