First Edition. 325 pages; the appendices (pp. 177–325) list personnel. Illustrated throughout, including a few color plates. About 8-1/2 by 11 inches. First edition (stated). A very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. Spine a bit faded.

First Edition. The final report on the relocation, internment, and incarceration of Japanese immigrants and of Japanese Americans following the Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. While the book's chronology begins in January 1942, the chapter called "The Price of Prejudice" notes that the FBI reported.....

Original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing of a seaside village, surrounded by mountains, with smoke rising from the center of the town. Sheet roughly 8 by 6 inches, drawing 5-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches. Probably from 1943-1946, when Williams was a staff illustrator for the New Yorker magazine. Only seven of his drawings.....

First Edition. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also.....

A propaganda press image showing an interned Japanese American working in an American flag factory during the Second World War. This is an original silver gelatin photograph captioned on the back (verso) with the following mimeographed label: "The main wish of Mrs. Yoshiye Abe, an American of Japanese ancestry, is.....

First Edition. A retelling, by Michener, of scenes from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, which was based on Michener's book Tales of the South Pacific. Really, for a kids book, that's a bit meta, don't you think? Illustrated in full color by Michael Hague. This is one of.....

First Edition. A Japanese nationalist critique of the United States and American culture written by a Buddhist minister who oversaw a Jodo sect church in Honolulu. Ito (1876–1930) lived in Hawaii for 18 years, returning to Japan about 1920, where he wrote books on a variety of topics. This book.....

A homefront poster for the East Coast of the United States during the Second World War. The poster explains three types of air raid warnings, plus the all-clear signal. The system alerts residents if enemy bombers are approaching, if bombing is immenent, and when enemy planes have left (but might.....

A homefront poster from the middle of the Second World War explaining the need for gasoline rationing on the East Coast. It reads (ellipses or ... in the original), "Last year... we used about 22,000,000 gallons of gasoline a day in the gasoline rationed Eastern States alone. This year... Because.....

A blank poster for menus or price lists for price controls during the Second World War. The poster, folded to make four pages, as issued, includes a page of instructions to merchants and restaurant owners; the interior spread provides forty lines for filling out price information. An interesting piece of.....

A Second World War homefront poster encouraging Americans to participate in price-control efforts in order to keep inflation under control. The main graphic shows two women reaching for their baskets of groceries. The woman from 1918—the First World War—finds the basket out of reach. The "modern" 1944 woman can easily.....

The smallest of three sizes of this homefront poster promoting the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD). The artist was one of the few women to design government posters during the Second World War. According to the Long Branch, New Jersey, Daily Record (12 October 1942), Emily Newman was an advertising.....

A homefront poster produced during the Second World War by private industry to promote the installation of insulation in houses. The text continues, "Install it yourself, flame proof cotton insulation." 14 by 20 inches. This is an original World War II poster, not a reproduction. A near fine copy, folded.....