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.....

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 very scarce example of the War Relocation Authority's efforts to find opportunities for interned Japanese Americans in New England. The pejorative headline suggests that the Boston field office of the WRA may not have fully supported the effort. This pamphlet is dated December 31, 1944. The Western Defense Command.....

First Edition. A notable Japanese American civil rights statement and one of the only openly critical publications about the Japanese internment issued by an internee during their internment. This pamphlet is datelined Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and was printed by the Billings Gazette in Billings, Montana.....

First Edition. A pioneering illustrated memoir of a Japanese manga artist's stay in the United States in the early 20th century. Shishido spent nine years in the United States, beginning in 1912, where he absorbed American popular culture and transformed its stylistic elements into Supido Taro, the Japanese comic book.....

First Edition. A scarce and interesting look at a Japanese laborer's view of the possibilities of working in America at the height of Japanese immigration to this country. "Based on the author's 4-year personal experience in America, this book presents facts on labor conditions and wages by skilled versus unskilled.....

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. An illustrated collection of comical adventures in the United States written and drawn by one of the key figures in the development of modern-day manga, Shishido Sako. Shishido's Supido Taro is widely cited as the first manga to incorporate storytelling techniques from American films, and it was one.....

First Edition. The first and only yearbook/almanac issued by the Japanese-American Commercial Weekly (Nichibei Shuho, later Nichibei Jiho). While similar in format to the yearbooks and directories published at the time on the West Coast, this book is much more focused on the import-export businesses that were located on the.....

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.....