A lovely commercially produced (though likely in small quantities) album of colorful preserved marine algae specimens mounted on six leaves of cardstock and enclosed within thin sections of whale vertebrae. The algae samples are beautifully arranged and still have brilliant color. The bone front cover has a hollowed-out center lined.....

A lovely art nouveau–inspired, California-themed poster for the fourth Fiesta de Los Angeles, a multi-ethnic annual celebration of the City of the Angels. This poster, an early work by the California artist Mary Eleanor Curran would seem to be Snow White surrounded by the California poppy (the state flower), if.....

First Edition. A book promoting Christianity intended to counter what the author perceived as growing anti-Christian prejudice among the Chinese people. The writer was a minister at the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco. 10, 2, 204 pages. Text in Chinese, with a preface and the table of contents.....

R. J. Waters operated a photography studio at 110 Sutter Street in San Francisco (listed in the 1900 San Francisco Crocker-Langley Directory). He offered small-format photographs, captioned in the margins, of San Francisco and Bay Area scenes designed for use in scrapbooks. This group includes: 267. Chinese Grocery; 274. Club.....

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.....

First Edition. Part history, part literary anthology, this large volume by an Issei historian devotes chapters to the Japanese exclusion laws, the history of Japanese American farming, particularly in California, and Japanese language schools. The bulk of the book is an anthology of Japanese American poetry (in Japanese) and first-person.....

First Edition. 178 pages. Map endpapers. First edition (first printing, with no later printings indicated). A very good or better copy in a very good dust jacket that has faded from green to brown. This copy has the bookplate of noted angling author Joseph Delaplaine Bates Jr. (Atlantic Salmon Flies.....

First Edition. Fully illustrated in color. 272 pages. First edition (no statement of later printing). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a small area of lamination peel along the bottom edge.

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.....