San Francisco: 米国日語協会 Beikoku Nichigo Kyōkai Japanese Speaking Society of America, 1987. Hardcover. x, 188p., hardcover in dust jacket, 6.25x8.5 inches, very good. Illustrated with b&w photographs, maps. A history of Issei, the first-generation Japanese Americans, with sections on the Wakamatsu Colony and Japanese American incarceration during World War II..... More
Cat.No: 281141
[Honolulu]: the Center, 1987. 10.5x17 inch sheet of light cardstock printed two sides (each with the work and biography of one of the artists), folded into 6-panel brochure. Akamine is a Hawaiian artist. More
Cat.No: 46870
Honolulu: Social Science and Linguistics Institute. University of Hawaii, 1977. xii, 152p., 8.5x11 inches, lightly shelfworn wraps. Hawaii Series no. 6. More
Cat.No: 84962
Honolulu: The Young Men's Christian Association, 1969. Hardcover. x, 253p., hardcover in dust jacket, 6.25x9.25 inches. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs. Signed and inscribed by Allen on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket shelfworn with closed tear on front cover, else very good. More
Cat.No: 288338
Berkeley: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, 1957. Paperback. viii, 108p., wraps slightly browned, title and author's name penciled on spine, else very good condition. West Coast collective bargaining systems. More
Cat.No: 3715
Lower Lake, CA: Aslan Publishing, 1994. Trade Paperback. 154p., inscribed by Amos, later printing, wraps. The African American author on how he lost his cookie company. More
Cat.No: 47884
Honolulu: Imperial Court of Hawaii, Inc., 1993. Magazine. [24p] includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, program, ads, photos, statements, services and resources, lightly-worn souvenir program in stapled pink pictorial wraps with small discoloration on cover. More
Cat.No: 236427
Boston: The American Tract Society, 1865. Hardcover. viii, 238p., cloth-covered boards, 4.25x6.75 inches, frontis., illus., boards lightly edgeworn with fraying at corners, previous owner's rubberstamp on front pastedown endpaper, endpapers lightly foxed, else very good condition. The wife of the Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions..... More
Cat.No: 283346
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. Paperback. x, 188p. paperback, 6x9 inches. Sun fading to spine, wraps lightly rubbed, previous ownership stamp on half title page, else very good. More
Cat.No: 280036
Honolulu: Amfac, Inc. (aka American Factors), 1981. Paperback. 64p., illustrated lavishly with colorphoto scenes and portraits, historical paintings in color, b&w sketches, a diagrammatic map, all integrated with running texts. Softbound in 10x7 inch color wraps, cover slightly edgeworn, a very good copy: sound, clean, unmarked. Publisher Amfac, "a Hawaii..... More
Cat.No: 292687
Honolulu: The Kamehameha Schools Press, 1965. Hardcover. 172 pg. hardcover without dust jacket, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Boards lightly soiled, previous ownership inscription on inside cover, else very good. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs. Pauahi was born in 1831 in Honolulu. She married the American businessman Charles Reed Bishop in..... More
Cat.No: 279039
Honolulu: Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1995. Staplebound. 58p., staplebound pamphlet, 7x10 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs. More
Cat.No: 288355
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1881. Hardcover. xv, 511p., illustrated with vignette steel engravings, no fullpage plates nor any map, graphics reproduced well enough but are copied from an earlier issue (in fact, the item in hand may be a pirate), hardbound in 7.5x5 inch lentil-brown cloth boards lettered and..... More
Cat.No: 296892
Honolulu: the school, 1953. Hardcover. 128p., the familiar yearbook design and size, hardbound in 11x8 inch dark blue fabrikoid boards with a pressed decoration and lettering on bronze-colored panels. A bit edgeworn, the spine shows a little fabric-weave at rims, and general scuff-marks, clean and sound within, no markings or..... More
Cat.No: 288289
San Francisco: Daniels & Wilson Incorporated, Music Publishers, 1918. Pamphlet. 3p., 13.5x10.5 inch decorated wraps (blue and yellow Europeans, he in uniform, she in leis and grass skirt), quite edgeworn with several short closed tears. The Wasteland, filtered through American demobilization and Pacific paradise, Sweeney, where are you. Lyric warns..... More
Cat.No: 167526
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Honolulu: Friends of Ben, 1994. Two brochures and a bumper sticker from the gubernatorial campaign of the first Filipino American to be elected governor of a state. More
Cat.No: 207055
Honolulu: Center for Philippine Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991. 20p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Program for the play about Filipino immigrants on a sugar plantation, including synopsis and brief introductions to the performers. More
Cat.No: 207029
Honolulu: Hawaii Chinese History Center, 1981. 32p., staplebound booklet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Intended for Chinese Americans seeking to learn about their ancestral villages in Guangdong. More
Cat.No: 216559
Honolulu: Bank of Hawaii, 1989. Pamphlet. 32p., stapled wraps, rear wrap lightly foxed else very good condition; illustrated booklet on Chinese immigration to Hawaii and subsequent local history of the community. More
Cat.No: 190658
Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1991. Paperback. 165p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Poetry, fiction, and art including an early poem of the late gay Malaysian American poet Justin Chin. More
Cat.No: 286528
Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1993. Paperback. 165p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Poetry, fiction, and art from majority Asian American contributors. More
Cat.No: 286530
Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1990. Paperback. 122p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. Includes a typed letter and a draft of a poem written for Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston in the original envelope from Wing Tek Lum, one of the contributors to this issue, to the late Japanese American..... More
Cat.No: 288402
Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1995. 211p., illus., 10x10 inches, later printing, dj. Hawaiian chef. More
Cat.No: 67717
[San Francisco?]: Self-published by the author, 2012. Paperback. viii, 250p., pictorial wraps, 5.25x8 inches; photos., in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author. San Francisco-based author. More
Cat.No: 288043
Washington DC: United States Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, December 1929. Pamphlet. 64p., numerous illustrations from b&w photography, a GPO softbound booklet in 9x6 inch gray printed wraps. Slight edgewear, paperstock faintly toned, completely sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station Honolulu, Hawaii..... More
Cat.No: 257712
