New Arrivals
Opening the Heart of the Cosmos. Insights on the Lotus Sutra.
Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2003. Hardcover. 214p., cloth boards in dust jacket, the first printing. The glossy dj is slightly edgeworn, an else entirely sound, clean, unmarked copy. Vietnamese American author. More
Cat.No: 244985
The Literature of California, Writings from the Golden State. Volume 1, Native American Beginnings to 1945
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Paperback. xx, 629p., first edition of the softbound issue, fat paperback in color-decorated wraps. An unmolested copy, entirely clean, sound and unmarked. Please note, vol #1 only. More
Cat.No: 239313
Voices from the railroad: stories by descendants of Chinese railroad workers
San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 2019. 95p., paperback, new. Includes illustrations of contemporary photos and artifacts. Descendants of pioneering Chinese railroad workers tell their stories - and those of their ancestors - in this volume published on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad..... More
Cat.No: 239029
Unity / La Unidad / Tuan jie bao. Revolutionary culture; a weapon for people's struggle! [poster]
n.p. LRS, [ca. 1980]. 17.5x23 inch silkscreened poster with the name of the newspaper of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist), in all three languages in which it appeared. Pinholes at corners, paperstock somewhat toned, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 232524
She sews in a sweatshop still dreaming of Gold Mountains / reliving her past through holiday rituals / patiently waiting for her house in the suburbs. / Helplessly I watch the years roll by / on the horizon no houses in sight, just mountains made of brass and sweat [screen print poster]
San Francisco: [Japantown Art & Media Workshop], 1980. 22.75x17 inch screen print poster depicting an older woman working at a sewing machine, a much younger version of herself standing with her mother in the background. Artwork by Lowe to accompany a poem by Hom that was originally published in 1977..... More
Cat.No: 196947
Corpus: an HIV prevention publication; vol. 5, no. 1, Fall 2007
Los Angeles: AIDS Project Los Angeles, 2007. Magazine. xvi, 128p., 8.5x8.5 inches, texts in Spanish and English, art, photos, essays, interviews, very good journal in trade paperback glossy pictorial wraps. Much AIDS content. More
Cat.No: 191326
In the Supreme Court of the State of California. K. Shimizu, plaintiff and respondent, vs. N. Nojiri, doing business under the firm name and style of Sacramento Produce Distributors, and N. Nojiri, defendant and appellant. Appellant's reply brief
Sacramento: Capital Press, [1920]. 9p., very good in wraps. Sac. No. 3361. The case revolved around a dispute over whether celery was being shipped for direct purchase or on consignment. More
Cat.No: 190660
The Chieu Hoi Saloon
Oakland: PM Press, 2010. Paperback. 369p., pictorial wraps, new, signed by author. Hard-boiled mystery set in Los Angeles. More
Cat.No: 169176
Other: an Asian & Pacific Islander prisoners' anthology
[Hayward]: Asian Prisoner Support Committee, 2007. xi, 146p., paperback, very good, Personal inscription signed by Eddy Zheng. More
Cat.No: 150392