Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1978. 278p., very good hardcover in a sun-faded and slightly shelfworn dustjacket. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Text in Japanese. Biography of Yamada Waka, who was kidnapped and sent from Japan to Seattle to work at a brothel in 1897. After escape and conversion to Christianity in..... More
Cat.No: 273454
Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i, 2017. 368 pgs. Softcover. Translation of original Japanese language version: Haisho Tenten. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes reprintings of haiku poetry. Price sticker on back cover. Author published the Japanese version of his account fifty years ago, but it was not until..... More
Cat.No: 273393
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. 253 pg. hardcover edition. Very good. Author is a Professor of North American Studies at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. More
Cat.No: 273387
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. 404 pgs. Hardcover without dj. Illustrated with black and white photographs, charts, and maps. Ownership signature and math calculations on front free endpaper. Stains on some of the pages in bottom right corner. Second printing. Good reading copy. Leighton served as a Lieutenant Commander of..... More
Cat.No: 273379
Powell: Western History Publications, 1998. 240 pgs. Softcover. Illustrated with various tables and black and white photographs. Has small tape mark on back cover. Very good condition. Includes essays from authors on subjects including Nisei Soldiers, the Draft Resistance movement, and the strike at the camp hospital among others. More
Cat.No: 273378
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. Paperback. 239 pgs. Softcover edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs and charts. Very good. More
Cat.No: 273366
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1970. Hardcover. 101 pg. hardcover in dj. Dust jacket has small rips at top and corner and has been price clipped. Front free end paper has previous owners signature and stamp. Toned rectangle on page 35 where a newspaper clipping was laid in. Illustrated with black..... More
Cat.No: 273364
New York: Indo American Association, [193-]. Pamphlet. 23p. staplebound pamphlet, covers mildly worn, especially at edges, with some dust-soiling. Compilation of quotes from earlier writings by then-Premier MacDonald, selected by Roy for revealing unflattering aspects of British rule in India. Madeline Slade's appendix describes the barbarism of punishments inflicted on..... More
Cat.No: 273322
Powell, WY: Western History Publications, 2001. Paperback. 289pgs. Softcover. One of the essays has been highlighted and annotated. Good reading copy. The book includes essays by twelve different authors covering topics ranging from the role of Korean interpreters in detention centers, to censorship in the camps, to the experiences of..... More
Cat.No: 273237
Charleston: The History Press, 2016. Paperback. 168pgs. Softcover. Very good condition. Includes black and white photos throughout. The book describes the various impacts that World War II had on the town of Arroyo Grande, from the men who volunteered to serve, to the Japanese American families who were forced to..... More
Cat.No: 273233
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San Francisco: Inkworks; Poster Brigade, 1979. 22.5x17.5 inch poster depicting the history of protest surrounding the International Hotel in San Francisco's Manilatown and the forced eviction of many elderly residents. There are edge stains at the top and the upper right corner, most visible in the margin but extending into..... More
Cat.No: 232717
Cambridge: Circlet Press, Inc., 2002. Paperback. 181p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay science fiction, with maybe a little more fantasy than #2. More
Cat.No: 164063
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1971. Paperback. 117p., wraps worn with previous owner's names on the front wrap else good condition, chronology, bibliographies, notes, illustrations. Special publication #52. Includes articles on Asian Americans, Blacks, Chicanos, and Native Americans. More
Cat.No: 25740
