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.....

First Edition. A directory of members of the Hiroshima Prefecture Society (Kenjinkai) of Southern California along with an introduction about the group. Kenjinkai—prefecture societies—were influential parts of the Japanese American community, and the Hiroshima group was one of the largest. More than 100 businesses advertised in this directory. The entries are.....

A cabinet card photograph of two young African American women wearing similar solid-color dresses with elaborate headpieces. One woman stands with her arm on a pedestal, the other is seated to her right. The photograph is captioned in a later hand, "Grandmother and Aunt Maggie 1888." The date seems correct.....

Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded, short.....

First Edition. "This contains essays, speeches, and commentaries on anti-Japanese exclusion and U.S.-Japan relations by Japanese immigrant leaders and white Americans. The appendix describes origins of various historical matters and Issei social customs, as well as pioneering individuals and organizations in the mainland and Hawaii."—Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans in.....

First Edition. "This contains essays, speeches, and commentaries on anti-Japanese exclusion and U.S.-Japan relations by Japanese immigrant leaders and white Americans. The appendix describes origins of various historical matters and Issei social customs, as well as pioneering individuals and organizations in the mainland and Hawaii."—Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans in.....

First Edition. "This contains essays, speeches, and commentaries on anti-Japanese exclusion and U.S.-Japan relations by Japanese immigrant leaders and white Americans. The appendix describes origins of various historical matters and Issei social customs, as well as pioneering individuals and organizations in the mainland and Hawaii."—Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans in.....

A massive (nearly 1500 pages) national directory of Japanese Americans, primarily in California but with entries from around the United States. The directory is organized by state and then city, followed by the name, address, and phone number of the head of each household and of Japanese owned businesses. The.....

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.....

First Edition. A request to Congress from California for the "early establishment of a mail-route and daily mail from Auburn, Placer county, to Nevada city, Nevada county, via English's Bridge and Grass Valley. Also, a tri-weekly mail from Sacramento city, via Yolo city, Yolo county, to Cacheville, in Yolo county;.....

Eleanor, a teacher, writes to Harry, a friend or possibly a relative. She writes about planned trips to San Francisco for shopping and about her parents. Then she starts complaining about Eureka: "Eureka is on the fritz. The lumber industry is nil & Humboldt is dead—Eureka looks deserted & forlorn.....

First Edition. Alarcón began writing this novel while in California, and he completed it during a European trip. The novel is set in the 1920s in the Santa Clara Valley of California and its plot revolves around a Mexican immigrant's obsession with the daughter of an Italian immigrant. However, the.....