Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House], China International Bookstore, [ca. 1968]. Offset color lithographic poster, 30.5 x 42 inches, expertly backed on linen, with ample linen margins. Minor surface wear, light creasing. A striking Chinese propaganda poster intended for an African American audience, illustrated with a group of Black.....

San Francisco: Jimmy Lum Advertising Service, 1950. 108pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled, with a length of string tied through a small punch hole at top left. Moderate toning, edges, corners, and spine ends a bit scuffed. Internally clean. Good plus. A rare and highly informative Chinese American directory for San.....

Washington, DC: Claude T. Clements Press, [1932]. [14],362pp. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's tan cloth with titles stamped in brown on spine and front board. In original, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Minor edge wear, light insect damage to boards. Dust jacket either trimmed a bit short or originally produced a half-inch shorter.....

Tokyo: Dai Nihon Yubenkai Kodansha, 1933. 11, 651pp. Publisher’s tan cloth with title and floral design printed in black on front cover. Noticeable soiling and some staining to boards, minor wear to extremities. Some penciled doodles on endpapers, but otherwise clean internally. Very good. An otherwise-unremarkable second printing of a......

New York: Nichi-Bei Minshu Linkai, by permission from Simon and Schuster, 1943. 95,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear and soiling to covers. An interesting work with an even more interesting provenance. Report from Tokyo: A Message to the American People was written by Joseph Grew, the United States Ambassador to.....

Hunt, ID: November 1, 1945. 4pp., mimeographed text on tall folio sheets, stapled at top left. Old folds, light wear, two holes punched in top margin. Very good. An informative document written by W.E. Rawlings, the Project Director at the Minidoka Internment Camp in Idaho, providing guidelines, instructions, pointers, and.....

[Various locations in Hawaii and Japan: 1935]. [21] leaves, illustrated with ninety-four black-and-white and sepia-toned photographs. Small oblong octavo. Contemporary leatherette photograph album, string tied. Covers lacking, spine chipped. Bottom corner of most leaves chipped, with no loss to captions or photos, minor occasional dust-soiling. Photographs generally well preserved. A.....

[Manzanar, CA]: 1943. Two partially-printed documents, completed in manuscript, 11 x 14 inches and 9.5 x 12 inches, respectively. Minor wear, some creasing. Smaller diploma somewhat faded. Overall very good. An intriguing pair of relics from a sad moment in American history, but certainly emblematic of the resilience within the.....

Los Angeles [i.e., Japan]: Shin Nichi-Bei Shinbunsha, 1961. 23,1431,19pp., profusely illustrated with photographs, including several full-page plates after the text. Publisher's limp blue cloth, gilt spine titles. Original cardboard slipcase with black titles. Minor rubbing to spine. A gargantuan Japanese American directory and almanac published by the New Japanese American.....

[Numerous locations in Japan: 1962]. [26] leaves, illustrated with 103 black-and-white photographs, mostly about 4.5 x 6.25 inches, each with typed caption printed in both Japanese and English. Oblong folio. Contemporary presentation photograph album bound in gold cloth, stamp-dated 1962 and with blind-embossed titles in Japanese, two tassel ties. Spine.....

[Various locations, mostly Japan, but also California and Hawaii: 1931-1947]. [24] leaves, illustrated with 206 mounted black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs of varying sizes, most with manuscript captions in Japanese. Quarto. Contemporary maroon photograph album with floral design and "Photo Album" printed on front cover. Spine chipped, both boards and spine.....

Los Angeles: 1947-1951. Thirty leaves, illustrated with 307 photographs between 1.75 x 1 inches and 7.5 x 9.75 inches, most leaves with at least one manuscript annotation in white ink, mostly in Japanese but occasionally in English, and ink annotations to the versos of the corner-mounted photographs. Oblong folio. Contemporary.....

[N.p., probably Washington, D.C. or Los Angeles: MGM / Motion Picture Export Association, ca. 1950-1952]. Single sheet folded into a four page brochure, with black and white photographic illustrations on front and rear, 9.75 x 7 inches. Text mainly in Japanese, but the list of "players" and production credits in.....