A list of new arrivals and select inventory gathered for the May 2025 ABAA Virtual Book Fair.
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.....
Price: $500
Four amateur photographs of Native Americans taken in Reno, Nevada, in 1906. The images are a man standing with a rifle, a seated group of women, a young child in a papoose, and the same child with a young boy. The images are on early commercially produced postcard paper. The.....
Price: $400
A view of Eastern Oregon town of La Grande, in Union County, taken from the hills to the west of the downtown area. The Foley Hotel, with its distinctive Queen Anne turret is visible at the left center of the image, dating this view to after 1891. A printing-out paper.....
Price: $125
![Item No: #307481 [On the 1929 Western Wall Riots] Sefer ha-mishpatim: din...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/307481.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613884704)
First Edition. In the summer of 1929 a dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated and erupted into a series of violent demonstrations and riots in late August. The violence spread throughout British-controlled Palestine (now Israel), ending in massacres in Hebron. This is.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A rare promotional brochure encouraging Japanese investment and settlement in the Yamato Colony, in Merced County, California. The colony was established by Kyutaro Abiko, who purchased 3,200 acres through his company, the American Land and Produce Co. The venture was perhaps the most successful of projects to set.....
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First Edition. A study of inter-marriage among Europeans, Asians, and Polynesians in Hawaii, arguing that these social relationship reduce racism and improve racial harmony. Maile Renne Arvin, in Possessing Polynesians (2019), that Adams failed to address the structural nature of settler colonialism and its negative attitudes toward native ("pure") Hawaiians.....
Price: $300
First edition. An important early work by this pioneering Chicano poet who was one of the first to explore the Mayan and Aztec roots of Chicano culture. Fifteen years ago, I offered the opinion that of the early Chicano Movement poetry collections, this was the easiest to find; but no.....
Price: $300
![Item No: #361856 [Japanese Women] Nihon no fujin. Beikoku Hakurankai Nihon...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/361856.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1664161806)
First Edition. A Japanese version of "Japanese Women," an English-language publication of the Japanese Woman's Commission for the Columbian Exposition in 1893. That book described the role of women in Japanese society and had separate chapters on politics, literature, religion, domestic life, industry, arts, and charity and education. The present.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A plea from a Cherokee leader, the son of the assassinated tribal leader and Cherokee Phoenix editor of the same name, to have Congress intervene in support of dropping criminal charges against him lodged in a dispute over tobacco taxes and Native sovereignty. In this statement to Congress.....
Price: $350
First Edition. A landmark in the history of American Chinese language instruction, Chinese Made Easy is the first teach-yourself Chinese textbook published in the United States, and the earliest known attempt to teach the spoken dialect of Chinese immigrants living in the U.S., specifically, a variant of Cantonese. The book.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. "In her first book since Against Our Will, her landmark study of rape, Susan Brownmiller addresses another subject of immense significance: the set of societal structures, esthetic ideals, and assigned 'characteristics' which governs the lives of half of America, and which goes by the name of Femininity."—dust jacket.....
Price: $75
First Edition. Bound with (as usual) The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...To Which Is Added, The Contents of the Second Blast and a Letter...to the People of Edinburgh, Anno 1571 by John Knox. The Oxford Dictionary of National (UK) Biography describes this book as.....
Price: $1,500
First edition. This is one of a handful of mid-century books published in an attempt to paint a more positive picture of Mexican Americans in US history. Here Canales reprints and annotates two historical essays documenting Mexican American participation in the Texas war for independence. Canales particularly wants to refute.....
Price: $250
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.....
Price: $850
Later printing. Daniel's doctoral dissertation, "probably the first one in sociology by an African American" (Blasi, American Sociology of Religion: Histories, p. 29). Based upon a survey of the theological schools for negroes in the United States made by Robert L. Kelly and W.A. Daniel. "Few familes in America can.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The uncommon first edition of this classic work of American history with Native provenance. And Still the Waters Run spurred a reappraisal of Native American history from a perspective sharply critical of the US government and the Dawes Act, which encouraged the breakup of tribal lands, contravening centuries.....
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First Edition. The forced internment of Japanese residents and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor was bureaucratic, with new rules imposed every few weeks. This is an original copy of the sixth of what would ultimately be more than twenty proclamations. It.....
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Fourteen 5-by-7-inch sepia-tone photographs documenting logging operations in a long-gone company town in the redwood forest north of Eureka, on the California coast. Two of the images show logging camps (Camps 7 and 8); one shows a logging railroad; the rest depict scenes in the forest during the handsaw era.....
Price: $650
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.....
Price: $500
![Item No: #362061 [California and the Japanese] Kariforunia to nihonjin. Kazuo Ebina](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362061.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1698465006)
First Edition. A very scarce wartime history of the Japanese in California that argues that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a symptom of the same pervasive anti-Japanese attitudes among Americans that had contributed to the Second World War. The author, according to Yuji Ichioka writing in Before.....
Price: $1,850
First Edition. An early Spanish-language issue of the annual report of the laws passed by the California legislature in 1857. For several decades after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the governments of the new US states and territories acquired from Mexico printed major government documents in English and Spanish translation.....
Price: $450
Second Edition. An examination of the working conditions and treatment of Mexican laborers under the Bracero program. Galarza, in his role as Research Director for the National Agricultural Workers Union, conducted four months of field work for this report. He served simultaneously as the California Field Representative for the Joint.....
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First Edition. The first edition of what is likely the first Spanish-language literary work published on the West Coast of the United States. Gallardo (1831–1869; born in León, educated in Guadalajara, died in Napa) was a Mexican poet and dramatist who went into exile in San Francisco in 1857. In.....
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First Edition. The companion volume to Mexican Immigration to the United States, a collection of more than 75 oral histories of Mexican immigrants in the United States pursing a wide variety of work and professions. There is probably no other book up to that time that gave voice to so.....
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First Edition. Perhaps the most significant study of Mexican immigrants in the United States, based on extensive field work by Gamio in the 1920s. Gamio was born in Mexico, and trained in anthropology and archaeology at Columbia University, where he obtained a Ph.D. Gamio predicted that Mexican immigration to the.....
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