Chicago: Arcadia, 2002. 128p., profuse captioned period photography; first edition photo-decorated softbound, 9.2x6.5 inch wraps, faintest signs of any age or handling, a fine copy. Images of America. More
Cat.No: 178135
Fresno, CA: Asoka Buddhist Brotherhood Society, 1957. 112p., hardcover with red silk-covered boards, very good. Text in Japanese. A collection of the Japanese-American minister's writings, including prayers. More
Cat.No: 248841
Stockton, CA: Native Daughters of the Golden West, 1916. 27, (2) p., wraps, 3.75x6 inches; "Joined April 25, 1922" penned at top of front cover. Rules of the social organization, with list of members and the dates they joined. Members had access to a sick fund that paid out benefits..... More
Cat.No: 179140
Vacaville: Vacaville Museum / San Francisco Art Institute, 1996. 40p., well-reproduced color plates with translucent dividers bearing printed text, stiff color cardstock covers, 9x6.5 inches, bound with a white wire spine. Very good copy: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Catalog for the exhibit of 14 San Francisco Art Institute graduate..... More
Cat.No: 85827
Fresno: Prince Hall Grand Lodge, 1978. 18p., 8.5x11 inches, stapled wraps with slight dampstain at lower left corner. Details the previous year's activities and discusses changes in the immediate future. More
Cat.No: 110149
San Francisco: California College of the Arts, 2009. Unpaginated, perhaps a hundred fifty pages, sewn textblock of super high quality paperstock with original (color) and period (sepia) photography every leaf. Design is eminent, the panoramic and other sorts of photographs are terrific, a splendid little book that is also useful..... More
Cat.No: 226632
Salinas: Origenes Publication, 1970. Paperback. 87p., first edition, slightly worn wraps lacking jacket. Latino-American poet. More
Cat.No: 10349
Berkeley: Chicano Studies Library, University of California, 1982. Paperback. 120p., rubbed covers otherwise very good first trade paperback edition in wraps. Poetry. "Walking Behind the Spanish" is an homage to the poets of the Spanish Civil War. More
Cat.No: 26734
Berkeley: Chicano Studies Library, University of California, 1982. Paperback. 120p., very good first trade paperback edition in wraps. Poetry. "Walking Behind the Spanish" is an homage to the poets of the Spanish Civil War. More
Cat.No: 156387
San Francisco: Canfield Press, 1973. Paperback. vi, 154p., foreword, introduction, contributors bios, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Very early publication of a Valdez play (he had a piece published in "Aztlan" a year earlier). More
Cat.No: 22757
San Antonio: The Clegg Co., 1930. Paperback. 105p., wraps rather stained and soiled, with minor tears along the spine and signs of cosmetic sandpapering; half-title and titlepage affected by a marginal dampstain, ownership stamp to titlepage --but otherwise the textblock is in good condition. Author has included an epigraph in..... More
Cat.No: 58181
Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2000. xxxiii, 167p., very good paperback. Philippine printing of the University of Washington edition. More
Cat.No: 134312
Sacramento: Senate of the State of California, March, 1952. Paperback. 288p., 8.5x11 inches, photos, maps, plans, tables, figures, many folding, reports, mild wear and foxing otherwise good paperback in green report covers; find three "Irrigation Districts of California" papers laid-in (nice pictorial letterheads). More
Cat.No: 207765
San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997. Paperback. 148p. uncorrected proof, very good in wraps. YA novel set in Fresno, California. More
Cat.No: 122183
![Graduation prom [dance card]. Stockton YBA, Young Buddhist Association](/pictures/thumb/175732.jpg?v=1536520273)
Stockton, CA: YBA, 1946. 2.75x3.75 inch dance card, four panel format with hole punched for ribbon. Lists five Japanese-American couples as patrons and patronesses, starting with Rev. Hojo of the Buddhist Church in Stockton. Minor foxing, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 175732
Berkeley: University of California Press, Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1971. Paperback. 37p., softbound, rubricated titles, 7.25x10.5 inches, introduction, explanatory notes, index, huge folded map bound in at rear (a facsimile in colors). Presswork by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Slight edgewear to the fancy overlapping cover edges, mild sunning to..... More
Cat.No: 226820
