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

[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

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

[Cuba]: 1879. [3]pp., on a small bifolium. Contemporary ink stamps; accomplished in a fairly legible hand. Minor wear. A few small wormholes. Light tanning and dust soiling. Brief, but very interesting manuscript report on the case of a missing Chinese indentured servant in the district of Alagranes, near Matanzas. On..... More

[Various locations: 1914-1915]. Four pamphlets and two promotional pieces, approximately [100]pp. total. Slightly later pain stiff wrappers, manuscript titles on sine and front wrap, riveted at gutter. Slightly later bookplate to inside front wrapper, small ink ownership stamps on title pages. Minor edge wear to a couple of leaves; light..... More

Los Angeles: 1947-1951. Thirty leaves, illustrated with 307 photographs between 1.75 x 1 inches and 7.5 x 9.75 inches, most leaves with at least one manuscript annotation in white ink, mostly in Japanese but occasionally in English, and ink annotations to the versos of the corner-mounted photographs. Oblong folio. Contemporary..... More

Los Angeles [i.e., Japan]: Shin Nichi-Bei Shinbunsha, 1961. 23,1431,19pp., profusely illustrated with photographs, including several full-page plates after the text. Publisher's limp blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Original cardboard slipcase with black titles. Minor rubbing to spine. A gargantuan Japanese American directory and almanac published by the New Japanese American..... More

Tokyo: Jitsugyo No Nihonsha, 1937. 4,5,456,7,[6]pp., plus three plates. Original cream cloth stamped in blue, black, and gold. In original pictorial slipcase. Moderate staining and soiling to boards. Endpapers toned, very occasional light foxing to text, unobtrusive dampstain to fore-edge. Slipcase very worn and mostly separated, but rarely seen with..... 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

Camp Rohwer, Ar. 1942-43. Seven partially-printed report cards, completed in manuscript, together with a partially-printed "Assignment Card for Free Text Books," also completed in ink manuscript. Minor wear and some toning. A collection of documents specially printed by the United States government for the administrators and teachers instructing Japanese American..... More

Washington DC: 1943. Lithographic poster, printed in five colors, 11.25 x 20.5 inches. Minor edge wear, some toning to verso edges. Small typed note on verso, reading "GILA RIVER RELOCATION CENTER Rivers, Arizona War Bond Drive Ending Oct. 15, 1943." A unique example of a scarce World War II propaganda..... More

[Nagoya, Japan: ca. 1950s]. Color-printed broadside, 15.25 x 21.25 inches. Text in Japanese. Minor even toning, mild dampstain to corners, old folds. A vintage paper game sheet for Japanese sugoroku (similar to the western game snakes and ladders) featuring numerous Hollywood stars of the 1950s. These include Marlon Brando, John..... More