First Edition. The scarcest of the Northwestern California native language books. It is based on field work with Isaac Duncan, one of the few remaining native speaker, then living near Petrolia, in Humboldt County, near the mouth of the Mattole River in far northwestern California. The author of the book.....
Price: $150
![Item No: #308171 [Confucius’ Great Art of Equality] Kongzi zhi ping deng da...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308171.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362550.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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
First Edition. A novelization of the life of the Chinese emperor Guangxu (Kwang Hsu) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi. Der Ling was three-quarters Chinese and one-quarter American. Her father was a Chinese diplomat and her maternal grandfather was a a Boston merchant. She learned English and French.....
Price: $250
Promotional handbill for Martin Wong's first solo show, printed in brown and black on thin cardstock, a scarce ephemeral piece from an important American artist's first show, possibly designed by him. This handbill (sometimes described as a poster) reproduces a photograph of Wong's sculpture, Coyote, a seated anthropomorphic dog-creature, with.....
Price: $1,000
A trade catalog of lamps designed by Ray See under the See-Mar brand name of mid-century modern furniture, featuring 25 original 8-by-10-inch black-and-white photographs of lamps in furniture showroom settings, followed by a three-page price list ($35 to $150). These contents are housed in a three-prong paper folder with title.....
Price: $1,500
