First edition. An important history of New Mexico from the perspective of the Spanish American founders of the state. Read, a historian and politician, was born to an Anglo father and a Mexican mother. He spoke and frequently wrote in Spanish and was an enthusiastic promoter of Spanish culture in.....

12 by 16 inches. 8 leaves, printed letterpress with red ink. Unlike most Cuadernos Papiro books, this one is printed on both sides of the sheet. An edition of 60 copies. Arrufat is a prolific poet and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Cuba. The poems printed here.....

49 pages plus index and colophon leaves. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Edition of 200 numbered copies. Colección del Estero series. Stapled pages glued into stiff wrappers that fold around the spine and fore-edge to meet in the middle of the front cover. The cover includes a collaged heart design that.....

62 pages. 7-1/2 by 7 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. A collection of poems photocopied on white paper from the text handwritten by Rolando Estévez, who also designed and illustrated the book. The illustrations include a large handcolored horizontal panorama, collages, and small original drawings on the.....

5 leaves. 7 by 9-3/4 inches; the folding broadsides inside fold-out to 72 inches; the scroll unfurls to 23 inches. One of 50 copies. Colección Puente de Hierro. A complex book-object designed by Estévez and Laura Ruiz Montes. It encloses a long poem for Edith Piaf by Estévez in Spanish.....

The programs for the first two post-war conventions of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Intermountain District, which was made up of local chapters in Idaho and Malheur County, in eastern Oregon, at the time of the first convention; by the second convention the district had expanded to include Utah.....

A fine, dramatic portrait of a Cantonese opera actor standing in a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco. He is surrounded by ornate Chinese-style chairs. In the background, a Buddha shrine is visible, as are stringed instruments. Scrolls and paintings hang on the wall. The actor, clearly a leading man (xiaosheng).....

First Edition. The first collection of short stories by a Japanese American writer in English. The stories are interconnected and offer an intimate look at Issei and Nisei family life in the 1920s and 1930s. The book was scheduled for publication in 1942, but it was postponed by the outbreak.....

First Edition. The second collection of poems by the first Japanese American millionaire, the Stockton "potato king" Ushijima Kinji, known in the United States as George Shima. In 1920, Ushijima's "Shima Fancy" brand of potatoes had an 85% market share and were grown on 28,000 acres in California's.....

First Edition. The title of this book translates literally as "Guide for Japanese Immigration to Mexico", which is misleading, hence the supplied translation which better explains the purpose of the book. In the late 1920s, following a succession of racist and anti-Japanese laws passed in the US Congress and in.....

First Edition. An introductory medical textbook, illustrated by the author of Citizen 13660. After publishing her illustrated internment memoir (and proto-graphic novel) Citizen 13660 in 1946, Miné Okubo found occasional work as a commercial artist. Here she provides anatomical drawings in a much looser style than the usual technical drawings.....

First Edition. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....

First Edition. Two short texts by Booker T. Washington advocating for equality in voting between while and black men (women's suffrage is not addressed). The first text is a letter written to the constitutional convention in Louisiana supporting a test for voting so long as "no one clothed with State.....