First Edition. An early printed defense of Japanese immigrant rights in English, an appeal by one of the most prominent Japanese immigrants in California against the 1920 Alien Land Law initiative. This brochure-pamphlet was issued during the campaign to expand the scope of California’s alien land law. The measure proposed.....

First Edition. The first issue of the first Japanese American yearbook and directory, printed and published in San Francisco during the Meiji era. Quite scarce, even rare, with no original holdings in OCLC (the National Diet Library in Japan records a reproduction; no US libraries record any copy at all).....

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.....

First Edition. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. viii, 289 pages. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in brown leatherette stamped in gilt. This copy is inscribed by the author: "September 12, 1978. For Rex Carr, the best dog trainer in the world. Lawrence P. Shelton." Carr is considered the.....

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......

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. A signed copy of the first edition of this exhibition catalog for a show of Birk's works held at the Laguna Art Museum in 2000. Birk's paintings are a mashup of historical tropes and modern figures, here posed in scenes from an imagined civil war in California. This.....

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 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.....

"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.....

First Edition. A writer for the Rafu Shimpo Japanese newspaper in Los Angeles offers a satirical lexicon of Japanese American terms. The book is reminiscent of Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary. For example, an early entry is for "寫眞結婚" (shashin kekkon), or Picture Marriage: "The Japanese, who have always imitated foreign.....

A boudoir cabinet card of men posing in the left side of a Chinese grocery store displaying vegetables for sale in barrels and bins. From other images of the same store we know that to the right, not very visible in this image, was the butcher. This is an uncommon.....