First Edition. An important, large-format monograph of early portrait and urban landscape drawings, with both versions of the variant plate (the only such copy known to us). This self-published book reproduces black-and-white drawings created while Wong was living in Old Town, Eureka, many depicting figures and architectural scenes rendered in.....

First Edition. A rare, very early, Japanese American imprint from San Francisco during the Meiji era. This book came off the presses of the Japanese-American newspaper in San Francisco on June 30, 1902. It offers an unprecedentedly detailed look at the Japanese in California and the US at the turn.....

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 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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Albumen photograph, 4-7/8 by 8 inches, of a large Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake, probably the restaurant at 824-826-828 Washington Street. The restaurant may have been called Chun Sun; a restaurant with that name operated at 826 Washington Street in 1892, according to a San Francisco Examiner.....

Albumen photograph, 4-13/16 by 7-15/16 inches, of the interior of a Chinese restaurant, showing the entry hall opening out into the dining room, which has tables and chairs but no people. This view is captioned in the image in a narrow strip along the bottom of the print. This image.....