The editor of the largest Japanese daily newspaper in Los Angeles offers an introduction to American politics, culture, and economics. Each section, written in Japanese, concludes with a list of English-language resources divided into categories of periodicals, books, and in one case, films. Illustrated with several small charts and maps.....

First Edition. An introductory medical textbook, illustrated by the author of Citizen 13660. After publishing her illustrated internment memoir (and proto-graphic novel) Citizen 13660 in 1946, Miné Okubo found occasional work as a commercial artist. Here she provides anatomical drawings in a much looser style than the usual technical drawings.....

A book tracing the history of US-Japanese relations focusing on the growth of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and the legal and diplomatic efforts to exclude and discriminate against Japanese immigrants. The author then turns to the growing possibility of a war in the Pacific between the two countries.....

First Edition. A reprint of an article from Harper's Magazine by a Navy doctor stationed in Hawaii who describes the response of the Japanese-American community to the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Coggins describes their efforts to demonstrate that they.....

Third Edition. The third edition, after much shorter versions published in 1928 and 1929. This is a promotional publication printed at a Japanese-language press in Seattle, intended to encourage pan-Pacific trade through the port of Seattle. Chapters are devoted to manufacturing, commercial business, the current state of Seattle trade, trade.....

First Edition. The author's first novel, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award and the William Faulkner Award. First edition (stated first printing). A near fine copy in jacket that is lightly tanned at the spine (as usual). A nice copy of a major debut novel.

Later printing. Winner of the Newbery Medal. Twentieth printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket (old dampstain and tanning to spine). Inscribed to Florence Rosengren, of Rosengren's Bookstore, in San Antonio, in 1971, by Scott O'Dell and his wife, Elizabeth Hall O'Dell.

Book of the Month Club Edition. One of the most influential works of photography criticism. Book club edition (no statement of printing on copyright page; white endpapers). A near fine copy in a near fine clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Signed by Sontag on the front.....

Later printing. One of the most widely read of all the guides for Japanese immigrants to America. This book was written by Shimanuki, the founder of Nihon Rikkokai—the Japan Self-Help Society—a Christian group that helped poor Japanese from rural areas to study and work abroad. This is the first guide.....

First Edition. The original version of the novel A Dark Matter, which prints two hundred pages of the original version that was cut for publication. One of 500 signed and numbered copies. 549 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Numbered, and signed on.....

First Edition. One of 350 signed and numbered copies. 93 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Straub.

First Edition. One of 450 copies signed by Straub. 155 pages. 5-3/8 by 7-3/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Straub on the limitation page.

First Edition. The bestselling novel that started as a blog and ended up on the big screen in a movie starring Matt Damon. One of the better straight SF books of recent years; basically a clever Robinson Crusoe on Mars. 369 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending.....