First Edition. This is an early, possibly the second, Mexican American cookbook, which was issued by William Gebhardt, one of the leading manufacturers of chili powder and related products in the first half of the 20th century. According to the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) Handbook (online), "Gebhardt initially sold.....

First Edition. A matched-number set of both volumes of this collection of short stories signed by King and the illustrator, Glenn Chadbourne. There were 750 copies of each book and given that they were published four years apart, there are fewer matched sets than might be imagined. 281 and 260.....

First Edition. A pair of copies, including the numbered version and the 23-copy artist's issue, signed by the eight illustrators. This chapbook includes three short stories featuring Lansdale's title character plus artwork inspired it, including full-page illustrations by underground-comix legend S. Clay Wilson, and comic book artists Timothy Truman (Jonah.....

First Edition. A scarce and interesting look at a Japanese laborer's view of the possibilities of working in America at the height of Japanese immigration to this country. "Based on the author's 4-year personal experience in America, this book presents facts on labor conditions and wages by skilled versus unskilled.....

First Edition. An illustrated collection of comical adventures in the United States written and drawn by one of the key figures in the development of modern-day manga, Shishido Sako. Shishido's Supido Taro is widely cited as the first manga to incorporate storytelling techniques from American films, and it was one.....

This is a collection of family photos of Quong "Chan" Wong (Panyu District, near Guangdong, China, 1888 – New Hampshire, 1956) and his wife, the New Hampshire native Alice Abbott (1872–1956). The Wongs were a rare example of a "mixed" Chinese-Caucasian marriage in the first half of the 20th century.....

First Edition. A sequel to Tekisasu mushuku ta sanjuichi pen [Hoboing in Texas and Thirty-one Other Stories] modeled after The Decameron. Hasegawa "spins stories about people’s lives in an urban space, although the time and place are no longer the medieval Rome of the Decameron but twentieth-century New York. The.....

First Edition. The deluxe issue of this record of the Japanese in Hawaii, bound in brilliant purple cloth and housed in a paper clamshell case and a wooden box. "A standard prewar history of the Japanese in Hawaii with sections on history, demography, print media, finance, commerce, agriculture, religion, education.....

First Edition. Lynd Ward's second wordless novel; this being one of 309 copies printed from the original wood blocks (essentially, this is a bound volume of 128 original wood engravings by Lynd Ward). Like Ward's other proto-graphic novels, he explores social-realist themes here, incorporating that with tropes from 19th century.....

75 pages. 6 by 10-3/4 inches. One of 35 copies. Colección Puente de la Plaza. Poems in Spanish and English translation, selected by Behar, who notes that this is the first anthology of Cuban Jewish writers to be published in Cuba. The covers of the book form a single design.....

First Edition. A classic biography of the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. The book is still in print and the current publisher describes the book in the following terms: "Lord of Arabia is the famous biography of Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, who continues to cast a shadow over.....

First Edition. "A recent volume on the history of the Japanese in the Pacific Northwest, including those in British Columbia and Alaska. Based upon interviews and personal accounts, it is essentially a social history of the Issei viewed through their own eyes. Organized topically, it has vivid Issei recollections of.....

First Edition. The first survey of the work of one of the great bookbinders of the late 20th century, finely bound in full goatskin by the artist, with a geometrical inlay pattern, a leather chemise with laid down fiery marbled paper on the front and back, a slipcase covered in.....