First Edition. One of 75 numbered copies. I wonder what Larry McMurtry's publisher thought when he told them he was writing a book about mass killings in the 19th century. In any case, this book describes massacres at the Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and.....

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.....

First Edition. A scarce and interesting pamphlet offering various views on the proper spelling of the name of Oregon's principal river. This compilation brings together various letters and newspaper editorials from prominent regional figures concerning the Wallamet-Willamette controversy, primarily reprinted from the Daily Oregonian and other local newspapers. Contributors to.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

First Edition. An exceptional copy of this classic of modern Texas books. Long Days is an anecdotal and oral history of the YO Ranch, which was started near Kerrville by Charles Shreiner in 1880. The book is profusely illustrated with halftone photographs and drawings. The author is best known for.....

First Edition. A bilingual pamphlet detailing the origins of and the official Japanese response to the 1913 Alien Land Law passed in California. The law prohibited foreigners who were not eligible to obtain citizenship from purchasing land or entering into leases longer than three years. It applied almost entirely to.....

First Edition. "A general treatment of the Japanese in America by a Waseda University professor and a Christian socialist. He views the exclusion movement as rooted in racial prejudice, looks for more emigration from Japan, and anticipates that the Pacific Coast will become the meeting ground for the East and.....

First Edition. The final report on the relocation, internment, and incarceration of Japanese immigrants and of Japanese Americans following the Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. While the book's chronology begins in January 1942, the chapter called "The Price of Prejudice" notes that the FBI reported.....

First Edition. A very scarce Japanese-American history and Who's Who printed in Los Angeles in the Taisho era. Many Japanese immigrants to the US participated in organizations centered around their family's native prefecture. This book was published by the Mie Prefectural Association, an organization of Japanese immigrants from the central.....

First Edition. A very scarce wartime history of the Japanese in California that argues that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a symptom of the same pervasive anti-Japanese attitudes among Americans that had contributed to the Second World War. The author, according to Yuji Ichioka writing in Before.....

"A book divided into two parts. The first looks at the political and military significance of the Pacific area, the importance and role of the Hawaiian Islands, the American national character, the American economy, and finally U.S.-Japanese trade relations. The second half provides a summary of the economic and social.....