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
First Edition. A notorious anti-Chinese book by a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, issued with a remarkable and visually compelling fold-out color map of "vice" in San Francisco's Chinatown. "For historians in search of a complete single work containing most of the indictments widely disseminated in the.....
Price: $2,750
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.....
Price: $950
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
