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. The deluxe issue of this record of the Japanese in Hawaii, bound in brilliant purple cloth and housed in a paper clamshell case and a wooden box. "A standard prewar history of the Japanese in Hawaii with sections on history, demography, print media, finance, commerce, agriculture, religion, education.....

First Edition. A collection of newspaper articles on the history of the Japanese in Hawaii from 1868 to 1968, by a journalist with the Hawaii Times. Kawazoe (1903–1971) filled a remarkable 191 scrapbooks between 1916 and 1970, which have been digitized by the University of Hawaii. Those scrapbooks were the.....

First Edition. "Autobiography of an Issei journalist affiliated with the Nippu Jiji of Honolulu. Covers the years 1896 to 1953, it includes major socio-political events during the time period and the author's wartime internment."—A Buried Past II, 1756. "Historical essays on the Japanese community over the preceding fifty years, by the.....

First Edition. Includes reports of the British expeditions of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands (pp. 1 to 256); Egypt (pp. 257 to 346); Rodriguez Island (now Rodrigues; pp. 347 to 400); Kerguelen Island (Desolation Islands; pp. 401 to 480); and New Zealand (pp. 481 to 512). Illustrated with a few plates.....