![Item No: #308171 [Confucius’ Great Art of Equality] Kongzi zhi ping deng da...](/pictures/thumb/308171.jpg?v=1674005154)
Second Edition. The author spent some years in the United States as the editor of the San Francisco-based Confucian Digest. She wrote frequently on the relevance of Confucianism to overseas Chinese. Prior to the Second World War, relatively few books by Asian women were published in the US. This book.....
Price: $200
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.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #362550 Chinese Actor, S. F. [Stereoview]. Carleton Watkins](/pictures/thumb/362550.jpg?v=1674324312)
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).....
Price: $950
A very unusual promotional real estate map for San Francisco's Castro district. While this map has been described as a lithograph (see PBA Galleries, April 21, 2022), it is actually letterpress printed entirely from type (the bite of the type can be distinctly felt on the verso of the paper).....
Price: $500
This is the most dramatic and attractive publication from the Free Los Siete incident and one of most decorative pieces of Chicano protest material from the period. The folio-sized publication is printed on a single sheet of newsprint folded to make four pages. One side is printed in orange, green.....
Price: $500
First Edition. The second book from Arion Press, printed excerpts from Robert Grabhorn's (of the Grabhorn Press) collection of short texts on cooking, that is to say, a "commonplace book." With an introduction by M. F. K. Fisher. Printed by Andrew Hoyem, whose Arion Press continues to set the American.....
Price: $400
A directory of Japanese Americans and Japanese American-owned businesses, primarily on the West Coast, but including listings for many other states and the provinces of Canada. The Hokubei Mainichi (North American Daily) was a bilingual newspaper for the Japanese American community in San Francisco. It began publishing in 1948, soon.....
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$950
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First Edition. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, claiming to speak for the business community of the West Coast, argues that the success of Chinese merchants in California and the growing trade with China requires armed transport across the Pacific Ocean to ensure the safe passage of gold and silver.....
Price: $150
First Edition. 166 pages. A wacky mystery set in a Paris transmuted into San Francisco, where F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway have a detective agency and Gertrude Stein is captured by Japanese terrorists. Published simultaneously in paperback, cloth, and this cloth issue, limited to 50 signed and numbered by.....
Price: $25
First Edition. 9 by 14 inches. 8 pages of weirdness. Printed in reverse order, right to left and back to front. According to Dorn's bibliographer, "Ed Dorn and Jeremy H. Prynne contributed approximately seventy-five percent of the content." Other contributors, credited only in a list of authors, are Tom Raworth.....
Price: $500
