First Edition. The second of what would become 40-odd Usagi Yojimbo books. Collects Usagi Yojimbo comics nos. 1 through 6. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single artist, spanning 250 comic book issues over four decades. This is a young adult samurai.....
Price: $60
First Edition. The fifth installment in the one of the most successful "funny animal" comic books series, now in its fifth decade. This is one of 1000 numbered hardcover copies signed on a bookplate on the front pastedown (the typical Fantagraphics limited edition format). Title on the spine: "Lone Goat.....
Price: $250
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First Edition. The sixth installment in the one of the most successful "funny animal" comic books series, now in its fifth decade. This is one of 750 numbered hardcover copies signed on a bookplate on the front pastedown (the typical Fantagraphics limited edition format). The volume collects UY nos. 25.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The fifth installment in the one of the most successful "funny animal" comic books series, now in its fifth decade. This is one of 1000 numbered hardcover copies signed on a bookplate on the front pastedown (the typical Fantagraphics limited edition format). Title on the spine: "Lone Goat.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The fourth installment in the long-running Usagi Yojimbo graphic novel series, and the first with a hardcover issue made from first printing sheets (when Fantagraphics reissued the first three volumes in hardcover—all had been paperback originals—they used the sheets of later printings. Titled on the spine "The Dragon.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The second of what would become 40-odd Usagi Yojimbo books. Collects Usagi Yojimbo comics nos. 1 through 6. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single artist, spanning 250 comic book issues over four decades. This is a young adult samurai.....
Price: $300
First Edition. A landmark graphic novel: the first of what would become 40-odd Usagi Yojimbo books. This first volume collects stories from Albedo (a legendary independent comic), Critters, Doomsday Squad, and Usagi Yojimbo Summer Special. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single.....
Price: $600
First Edition. A landmark graphic novel: the first of what would become 40-odd Usagi Yojimbo books. This first volume collects stories from Albedo (a legendary independent comic), Critters, Doomsday Squad, and Usagi Yojimbo Summer Special. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single.....
Price: $600
First Edition. The scarcest of the Northwestern California native language books. It is based on field work with Isaac Duncan, one of the few remaining native speakers, then living near Petrolia, in Humboldt County, near the mouth of the Mattole River in far northwestern California. The author of the book.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A moralistic novel of Chinatown written by the founder of a Christian mission for boys and dedicated to Donaldina Cameron, the founder of a mission dedicated to supporting Chinese prostitutes. This copy, however, has an interesting provenance. The novelist and playwright Frank Chin describes this book as the.....
Price: $300
First Edition. A landmark in the history of American Chinese language instruction, Chinese Made Easy is the first teach-yourself Chinese textbook published in the United States, and the earliest known attempt to teach the spoken dialect of Chinese immigrants living in the U.S., specifically, a variant of Cantonese. The book.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A remarkable and largely overlooked contribution to early Chinese-American culinary literature—issued as a government agricultural bulletin. While Shiu Wong Chan’s The Chinese Cook Book (1917) remains the best-known Chinese cookbook of the era, its recipes are meat-centered and rely on preserved vegetables like canned bamboo shoots and dried.....
Price: $850
Second Printing. An English-language translation of the second volume of Niisato's cautionary series "portraying the hardships and tragedies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants." This second volume "touches upon Nisei delinquency and runaways" (A Buried Past, 520). Among the stories told are of Umekichi Tanaka, a Nisei Christian sentenced to.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A sympathetic view of the Japanese people written in the aftermath of the Second World War. The Japanese American artist Miné Okubo, who had published an illustrated account of life in the internment camps, Citizen 13660, a few years before, reinterprets Hokusai's iconic image The Great Wave off.....
Price: $125
First Edition. A study of inter-marriage among Europeans, Asians, and Polynesians in Hawaii, arguing that these social relationship reduce racism and improve racial harmony. Maile Renne Arvin, in Possessing Polynesians (2019), that Adams failed to address the structural nature of settler colonialism and its negative attitudes toward native ("pure") Hawaiians.....
Price: $300
Second Edition. Five short stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown. The title story is about Chinese slave girls. One story appeared in the San Francisco Examiner, another in the Argonaut, where it won a Christmas story prize. In the introduction, the author offers the opinion that "of course, the best.....
Price: $300
A very scarce example of the War Relocation Authority's efforts to find opportunities for interned Japanese Americans in New England. The pejorative headline suggests that the Boston field office of the WRA may not have fully supported the effort. This pamphlet is dated December 31, 1944. The Western Defense Command.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. The one-time owner of the Sacramento Bee newspaper argues that racist anti-Japanese laws should remain in place. McClatchy sold his stake in his father's newspaper company in 1923 and spent the last 15 years of his life agitating against Asian immigrants. McClatchy wrote this small (16 pages, 3-1.4.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A notable Japanese American civil rights statement and one of the only openly critical publications about the Japanese internment issued by an internee during their internment. This pamphlet is datelined Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and was printed by the Billings Gazette in Billings, Montana.....
Price: $1,250
A terrific 19th century Chinatown albumen photograph that offers an interesting contrast to Taber's many well-known photographs of Cheong Wo & Co., a butcher shop that was located nearby. This view was just a half-block away, at the corner of Washington Street and the Washington Place alley. The shops in.....
Price: $1,250
An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of the exterior of the Hang Fer Lo restaurant and the Colombo cigar factory on Dupont Street, between Sacramento and Clay Streets in San Francisco's Chinatown. Hang Fer Lo was the leading Chinese restaurant in the city before the earthquake. It operated.....
Price: $750
An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of a large room in a Chinese restaurant, empty of people. The room is decorated with carvings and hanging scroll paintings. This view may have been taken inside the restaurant at 824-826-828 Washington Street, the only restaurant on Washington Street in the.....
Price: $600
An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of five idols in a Chinatown temple. Most likely, this is the temple at 9 Brooklyn Place, off of Sacrament Street, where the Lung Gong Association (Longgang gongsuo; now the Lung Kong Tin Yee Association) had its headquarters in the late 1880s.....
Price: $600
A brown toned albumen silver print of one of one of Taber's most enigmatic views of San Francisco's always bustling Chinatown—an improbably empty alley with a ghostly image of a child at the intersection of two streets. Taber obviously retouched the negative to remove figures from the upper part of.....
Price: $300
A very nice ninethenth century albumen street scene photograph of San Francisco's Chinatown. This photograph shows a sunlit Clay Street looking down hill, possibly from just below Stockton Street. A Chinese man in a work apron is walking in the foreground, facing the camera. Other men walk away from Taber's.....
Price: $600
