Published in connection with the Second Annual Exhibition in Portland of the Architectural League of the Pacific Coast held in the galleries of the Museum of Fine Art, June 3 to 19, 1910. Illustrated with half-tone images of proposed buildings and completed structures, many in Portland, but showcasing work around.....

First Edition. "This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas"—John Jenkins, Basic Texas Books. "Folklore about lost mines and buried treasure, caves full of gold bars, and jack-loads of Spanish silver... I know.....

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.....

A rare promotional brochure for agricultural development in San Bernardino County, with a detailed color-coded map showing proposed subdivisions. This real estate promotion celebrates the region's history of vineyards dating to the Mexican land grant period while promoting its potential for fruit growing. Illustrated with halftone photographs and featuring a......

Second Edition. An uncommon example of boosterism from California's Central Valley in the late nineteenth century. The book, published by Sacramento's leading newspaper, extols the virtues of Sacramento County agriculture, manufacturing, and other businesses and is illustrated with something like 1000 halftone photographs (often several to a page) of large.....

First Edition. The deluxe issue of this book which reproduces 148 tintype portraits by Kendrick of modern cowboys who look like they walked off the range 150 years ago. Essay by Marianne Wiggins. Afterword by photographer Jay Dusard. Published as volume 22 of the M. K. Brown Range Life series.....

First Edition. A well-meaning and self-serving account of the Modoc War, one of the last major battles between the US military and a Native American tribe. The Modocs, who holed up in the lava beds in far northeastern California and southeastern Oregon were finally defeated and forced to relocate to.....

First Edition. A book promoting Christianity intended to counter what the author perceived as growing anti-Christian prejudice among the Chinese people. The writer was a minister at the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco. 10, 2, 204 pages. Text in Chinese, with a preface and the table of contents.....

First Edition. A little known Meiji-era novel narrated by a young Japanese immigrant in the United States. The narrator seems to have come from the class of poor young people with knowledge of the modern world but little chance of advancement in tradition-bound Japan. He offers opinions and philosophical musings.....

First Edition. "A history of the Japanese from Miyagi Prefecture. Contains a short background on emigration from this prefecture, some population statistics, and a list of Japanese from Miyagi living in Southern California. Also includes brief histories of the Southern California Miyagi Prefectural Association and the Northern California Tohoku Association.....

First Edition. A collection from Abe Toyoji's (1880–1946) "Shadow of Time" newspaper column which was the most widely circulated Japanese column in the United States in the 1930s (see Shin Sekai Asahi Shinbun, January 24, 1937). He completed the manuscript for this book in early 1941 but its publication was.....

First Edition. "A chronological history of the North American Hongwanji Mission. Provides a chronology of important events from 1898 to 1935, brief descriptive histories of each church under the mission, and outline of the Y.M.B.A. [Young Men's Buddhist Association] League of North America, and resolutions of ministerial conferences."—A Buried Past.....

First Edition. Part history, part literary anthology, this large volume by an Issei historian devotes chapters to the Japanese exclusion laws, the history of Japanese American farming, particularly in California, and Japanese language schools. The bulk of the book is an anthology of Japanese American poetry (in Japanese) and first-person.....