[At sea. June 1934]. Five issues of The Morning Alaskan, each 4pp. Also, four leaves of manuscript, four mimeo news sheets, two passenger lists, thirteen menus, and related material. Light wear and chipping to edges of newsletters and news sheets, heavier to news sheets. Light wear overall. A nice archive..... More

San Francisco: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., 1940. 36pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light 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 almost entirely in Chinese aside from the front..... More

New York: 1882. [8]pp. Quarto. Printed on a single folded sheet. Closed tear at fore-edge, partially repaired with tape; a few separations along folds. Light tanning; light foxing at edges. A nice example of this Congregational missionary newsletter published weekly in New York, most interesting for its printing of a...... More

Habana: Imprenta del Gobierno, 1872. 94pp., plus two folding tables. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt ruled. Light scuffing and wear to boards, a bit heavier at corners; minor fraying and rubbing to spine. Minor tanning and dust soiling, but quite a clean copy, overall. A rare Cuban..... More

Havana: July 13, 1863. Partially-printed broadside, completed in manuscript, with additional manuscript notations on verso, 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Old folds, moderate toning, a few light creases. An original cedula providing identification information for a Chinese indentured servant in Cuba in 1862. This formal government-issued cedula was the kind first..... More

Los Angeles: Kashu Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1940. [2],2,16,420,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling and light edge wear to wrappers. Text somewhat tanned, small marginal chips to top edge of some leaves, wrappers a bit over-opened at page 415. A rare collection of writings by an important Japanese-American activist, journalist, and editor..... 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

Honolulu: 1912. [11] mimeographed typescript leaves. Folio. Duplicated on thin paper. Previously folded; some oxidization at upper corners of first and final leaves where formerly paper clipped. Contemporary docketing on blank verso of final leaf. Minor loss to final two leaves, slightly affecting text. Moderate, even tanning. A mimeograph copy..... More

Tokyo: Tanaka Jimusho, 1911. [104]pp. In Japanese and English. Oblong quarto. Original green textured cloth decoratively stamped in black and gilt on the front cover. Minor scuffing and soiling to boards. Occasional minor thumbsoiling. A handsome copy of the rare third edition of this Japanese photobook focused on the Japanese-American..... More

New York: Japanese American News Corp. 1948. [273]pp., varying paginations. Original red cloth, gilt lettered. Light dampstaining along spine. A few stray pencil marks to illustrated endpapers. The first postwar directory and yearbook published in 1948 by the Hokubei Shinposha, a New York Japanese-language newspaper. The work is illustrated with..... More

Los Angeles: 1956. Panoramic photograph, 40.5 x 10 inches. Captioned in Japanese in the negative. Minor wear. Panoramic photograph depicting the funeral of Otoji Hara at Sunnyside Cemetery in Long Beach, California on April 12, 1956. In the foreground a long line of funeral wreaths spreads from one end of..... More

Washington, D.C. 1879. 9pp. Stitched; stitching perished, leaves loose. Lightly soiled, some chipping and wear to first leaf. A rare speech given by the Senator from Ohio, Stanley Matthews, arguing against a bill restricting Chinese immigration to the United States. These debates were part of the political outcry against the..... More

[Chicago: 1946]. [2],25pp. printed on verso only, plus [25] leaves of photographic plates each containing four images. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial card covers with metal spiral binding. Covers scuffed, corners worn. Several leaves loose, some worn at edges. Internally clean. "This book presents actual photographs taken by Sam C. Pappas..... More