First Edition. The scarcest of the Northwestern California native language books. It is based on field work with Isaac Duncan, one of the few remaining native speaker, then living near Petrolia, in Humboldt County, near the mouth of the Mattole River in far northwestern California. The author of the book.....

A boudoir cabinet card of men posing in the left side of a Chinese grocery store displaying vegetables for sale in barrels and bins. From other images of the same store we know that to the right, not very visible in this image, was the butcher. This is an uncommon.....

First Edition. "An early comprehensive survey of the Japanese in North America. Includes chapters on American society; the historical background to immigration to North America; the Japanese communities of California, Washington, Oregon, and other states, as well as British Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii; the types of employment in which the.....

First Edition. A bilingual pamphlet detailing the origins of and the official Japanese response to the 1913 Alien Land Law passed in California. The law prohibited foreigners who were not eligible to obtain citizenship from purchasing land or entering into leases longer than three years. It applied almost entirely to.....

First Edition. "A biography of the well known Issei pioneer, Ushijima Kinji (1864–1926), designed especially for young readers. Known in English as George Shima, the Potato King, the subject [of the book] was a native of the city of Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture who came to America in 1888. His.....

First Edition. A reprint of an article from Harper's Magazine by a Navy doctor stationed in Hawaii who describes the response of the Japanese-American community to the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Coggins describes their efforts to demonstrate that they.....

First Edition. The first complete edition of the book that is now synonymous with California botany. The "Jepson Manual" is still updated today and is the essential work for anyone studying plants in California. This book was, like many of Jepson's works, published in parts over several years. This is.....

A promotional card, illustrated with a half-tone portrait, of an unsuccessful candidate for superintendent of schools for mountainous Trinity County in far northern California. This card most likely dates from before 1911, when women won the right to vote in California. Katherine "Kittie" or "Kitty" O'Neil was born in California.....

First Edition. Nine stories about women retold from California Native American folklore. This collection remains in print more than 60 years after its original publication and has proven to be an enduring work of comparative literature. Kroeber was the wife of Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist known for his work on.....

First Edition. "A chronological survey of the Japanese from Fukuoka Prefecture mainly restricted to California. Includes brief summaries of emigration from Fukuoka, the Nisei, various Prefectural organizations, and the outstanding pioneers like Ushijima Kinji and Ike Hyakumatsu; and a 303-page Who's Who. The appendices consist of a directory of Fukuoka.....

First Edition. "A Who's Who in America with some entries for Canada and Mexico. Organized alphabetically, it provides the following data: genseki, address, date of birth, year of arrival, occupational information, and marital status."—A Buried Past, 774. Some 7,000 families are thus identified, the vast majority in California. This directory.....

First Edition. Nine stories set in Hollywood. "Babitz is an acquired taste: her slewing style, bad–girl postures, and sad–funny takes on hedonism can be deliciously shocking... Here, though, as the narrator of these nine story/essays approaches middle–age—after all the drugs, booze, groupie sex, and wild passionate flings—the sense of brakes.....

First Edition. A novel about a pretty woman living the party life in Los Angeles who realizes that it is time to do something with her life. There has been a Babitz revival in recent years, with new editions of her work appearing—the reissue of this novel was on NPR's.....