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.....

A terrific 19th century Chinatown albumen photograph that offers an interesting contrast to Taber's many well-known photographs of Cheong Wo & Co., a butcher shop that was located nearby. This view was just a half-block away, at the corner of Washington Street and the Washington Place alley. The shops in.....

An unmounted imperial cabinet card-sized albumen silver print of a large room in a Chinese restaurant, empty of people. The room is decorated with carvings and hanging scroll paintings. This view may have been taken inside the restaurant at 824-826-828 Washington Street, the only restaurant on Washington Street in the.....

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.....

An albumen silver print of Dupont Street in San Francisco with the Hang Fer Lo restaurant in the center. This was the leading Chinese restaurant in San Francisco before the earthquake. It operated on two floors above Columbo & Co. Cigars, at 713 Dupont St., on the border of Little.....

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.....

Second Edition. The author spent some years in the United States as the editor of the San Francisco-based Confucian Digest. She wrote frequently on the relevance of Confucianism to overseas Chinese. Prior to the Second World War, relatively few books by Asian women were published in the US. This book.....

A very unusual original (not a copy, despite the title) promotional real estate map for San Francisco's Castro district. While this map has been described as a lithograph (see PBA Galleries, April 21, 2022, $1,375), it is actually letterpress printed entirely from type elements (the bite of the type can.....

First Edition. 9 by 14 inches. 8 pages of weirdness. Printed in reverse order, right to left and back to front. According to Dorn's bibliographer, "Ed Dorn and Jeremy H. Prynne contributed approximately seventy-five percent of the content." Other contributors, credited only in a list of authors, are Tom Raworth.....