The March 1938 edition of this phone book listing of about 2000 Chinese residents and businesses on the Chinatown telephone exchange in San Francisco. Beginning in 1909, Cantonese-speaking operators served Chinatown and their office became a regular tourist attraction (accounting for the relatively large number of these Chinese-language phone directories.....
Price: $125
First Edition. In all probability these 14 typescripts are the earliest surviving writing from Rod McKuen (1933–2015) the enigmatic singer-songwriter. Today, he is increasing seen as a queer pioneer* and these scripts will strengthen that view. McKuen joined the Bay Area Mattachine Society at age 19, about the time he.....
Price: $2,500
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: $3,250
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
