![Item #3978 [Manuscript Manifest of Chinese Laborers Bound for Havana]. Cuba, Chinese Labor](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3978.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1685280734)
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
![Item #2659 [Vernacular Photograph Album of a U.S. Soldier in Kolkata During World War II]. India,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2659_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1646858405)
[Kolkata: ca. 1945]. 248 original photographs, most approximately 3 x 4.5 inches. Oblong folio album, string tied; red paper boards, printed in gilt. Light wear at edges of boards and album leaves. Photos in corner mounts. Minor fading and mirroring to a few images. An extensive album of vernacular photographs..... More
[Chiba, Japan: 1957]. Title leaf, plus [18] leaves, illustrated with forty-three large photographs, between 4 x 6 and 8 x 10 inches, including a few small panoramic images, most with typed captions mounted beneath the pictures. Oblong folio. Contemporary light brown leather. Minor scuffing and edge wear. A unique photograph..... More
![Item #3931 Sangai no Mado Kara [From the Third Floor Window]. Japanese Americana, Morito Oka](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3931_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1680637144)
Tokyo: 1929. 249pp. Original drab printed wrappers. Spine lightly toned and chipped, light soiling and wear to covers. Inscribed on title page, contemporary ink notation on rear endpapers. First edition. A collection of essays originally published in the Japanese American News; the author worked for the Los Angeles branch of..... More
![Item #3766 [Vernacular Photograph Album Depicting African-American Soldiers in Korea]. Korean...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3766_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681757292)
[Various locations in Korea: 1950s]. [20] leaves, illustrated with 119 photographs in mounting corners, all around 3 x 4.25 inches or slightly smaller. Oblong folio. Contemporary lacquered boards decorated in Asian motifs, string tied. Much of front cover chipped, black electrical tape reinforcement to upper corner. Minor occasional wear or..... More
![Item #2742 [Group of Original Korean War Propaganda Materials]. Korean War, Psychological Warfare...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2742_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1646072179)
[EUSAK Headquarters, Seoul, South Korea]: 1952-1953. Thirty original leaflets, twenty-one stapled to original typed descriptive text. Minor wear, soiling, and occasional minor chips to some leaflets. Overall a very nice group. A fascinating assemblage of original Korean War propaganda leaflets, most accompanied by original explanatory sheets issued by the Eighth..... More
El Paso, Tx. and other locations: 1950-1953. Two contemporary photograph albums, one folio-sized, with a Japanese-style illustration on front board, the second slightly smaller, bound in fiberglass boards illustrated with a female dancer and the words "Admiralty Islands" on front cover, screw-bound, with silver metal hinge along front joint. Both..... More
[Los Angeles? 1935]. [1],69 leaves, plus [5] leaves laid in. Mimeograph typescript. Folio. Original blue paper folder, title printed on cover. Light wear and fading to covers, heavier at edges. Contents with minor toning and wear, heavier to leaves laid in. Informative manual compiled by a missionary to the Fuzhou..... More
Kyoto: 1936. [24] leaves, illustrated with twenty-six original photographs, between 2 x 3 inches and 6.25 x 4.5 inches, and twenty-five ephemeral items, all mounted in a contemporary Japanese accordion-style album bound in full pale yellow cloth with paper label on front cover. Each cover detached, with minor discoloration and..... More
[Puebla]: 1942. 26pp., plus twenty-one plates. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Some wear to lower edge and spine. Even toning and light dust soiling. Extensively illustrated popular history of Catarina de San Juan, known as La China Poblana. She was brought to Mexico through the Philippines in the early 17th century..... More
Tokyo: Salesian Orphanage, 1949. 84pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Second edition. Written by a Catholic priest, this work reports on the efforts of the Church and others to assist with the orphans and other wandering persons, particularly children, displaced in the wake of World War..... More
Tokyo: Daikosha, 1928. [2],6,296,[4]pp. Original color-printed wrappers. Light foxing and dust soiling to wraps. Moderate tanning, heavier at edges. "Analysis of American society in the late 1920s by an anonymous Japanese observer living in the United States. The author comments on a wide range of subjects including housing, food, transport..... More
![Item #3932 Betsuten Shiko [Poems]. Kinji Ushijima](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3932_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1680637146)
Tokyo: 1926. [6],13,[1],114,[1]pp. Original blue wrappers, printed paper label. Covers faded at edges, minor wear. Internally clean. First edition of this second collection of poems by the "Potato King" of Stockton and the first Japanese-American millionaire, Ushijima Kinji, known in the States as George Shima. In 1920, Ushijima's "Shima Fancy"..... More
[Phu Cat, Vietnam: ca. 1969]. [10] leaves, illustrated with seventy-six color photographs, plus a few pages filled with newspaper clippings, greeting cards, and other ephemera, and with examples of Vietnamese currency and coins laid in. Contemporary spiral bound pictorial green textured paper-covered boards illustrated with an outline map and stamped..... More
[Okinawa and Saipan: 1944-1952]. Two volumes. [130]; [140]pp. containing 268; 315 mounted photographs and three maps. Folio. Original grey cloth binders, manuscript titles on front covers. Light wear and soiling to covers. Contents mounted on leaves of ruled notebook paper. Annotated extensively in a neatly printed hand. These exceptionally well-documented..... More
Beijing: 1950. [2],2,109pp. Original printed wrappers. Illustrated. Text in Chinese. Minor spotting and soiling to wrappers, backstrip reinforced with plain paper, circular ink stamp on front wrapper, title page, and one text leaf. Occasional light marginal soiling. Rare Chinese translation of an anti-American propaganda pamphlet written by Soviet author, journalist..... More
[Mainly Vladivostok: 1918-1922]. 261 images, about half real photo postcards and half vernacular photographs, between 2.5 x 1.5 inches and 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary brown leather photograph album, string-tied. Lacking fore-edge flap, spine chipped, moderate rubbing and scuffing to boards. Minor occasional wear to photographs. A unique..... More
[Vladivostok, Russia; China; Japan; Philippines; Cuba; Panama; and Egypt: 1918-1922]. Ninety-six real photo postcards, postcards, and photographs, each about 3.5 x 5.5 inches or slightly smaller. A very well-preserved group, arranged in clear plastic sleeves in a brad-bound folder. An informative and ultimately unique collection of mostly annotated images documenting..... More