Asian American
This section includes literature by Asian American authors, as well as nonfiction works on related subjects, and the ephemera of Asian American political and cultural organizations. We stock many out-of-print Asian American immigrant publications in Asian languages.
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Texas long grain: photographs by the Kearny Street Workshop
San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1982. 59p., very good in wraps, signed and personally inscribed by many of the photographers next to their work, including Leland Wong (with small sketch), Jim Dong, Jerry Jew, Peter Man, Norman Yee and Zand Gee. Black and white photographs reflecting various aspects of..... More
Cat.No: 184599
Texas long grain: photographs by the Kearny Street Workshop
San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1982. 59p., wraps, 9 x 8.5 inches, chiefly illus., very good condition signed and inscribed by featured photographer Janet Yoshii on the front blank. Black and white photographs reflecting various aspects of the Asian-American experience. More
Cat.No: 251257
Thai Yellow Pages & Directory in USA / Thai Yenlo Phetchet
Los Angeles: Sereechon Enterprises, 1980. 232p., creased wraps, minor pen notations on several pages. Listings for Thai-American businesses, mostly in Southern California, as well as for Thai-American professionals in various states. More
Cat.No: 196942
These are the Yaos
[San Francisco]: the zine, 2015. [6p.], staplebound zine, 2.75x4.25 inches, very good. Booklet with black and white photocopies of photos of an Asian American family. "All these pictures found at Goodwill, 2015." More
Cat.No: 217957
Thòi báo gà. No. 14/15 (March and April, 1971)
Cambridge, MA: Vietnam Resource Center, 1971. 8p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, creased from mailing, postal marks, foxing. Translations of opinion pieces that originally appeared in Vietnamese-language publications, opposing US military policy. More
Cat.No: 249305
Thòi báo gà. Special issue (May 1972)
Cambridge, MA: Vietnam Resource Center, 1972. 12p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, rubberstamp of the US Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. This issue devoted to coverage of a visit by Vietnamese students to Carbondale, IL to oppose the AID Viet Center. Several pages of introductory text followed..... More
Cat.No: 227048
Time is winding up; poems from Galileo High School 1989
San Francisco: Galileo High School, 1989. Paperback. unpaginated, 5.5x8 inches, very good in trade pictorial wraps. The "bright" high; predictably, the poets are promising and sophisticated. Almost one in three of these poets bears an Asian surname. Facets 13. More
Cat.No: 149041
Ting: the caldron; Chinese art and identity in San Francisco
San Francisco: Glide Urban Center, 1970. 111p., profusely illus., worn wraps. More
Cat.No: 98398
Tosan An Ch'ang-ho, gulloboll sidae K'orian Amerik'an ui yokhal model / Dosan, bridging the Pacific
Seoul: Tosan An Ch'ang-ho Kinyomgwan, 2008. 242p., paperback, very good. Mostly in Korean, with some English sections. On Korean independence leader and Korean-American pioneer An Ch'angho (1878– 1938). More
Cat.No: 223966
Trends and Tides. Vol. 1 no. 3 (May-July 1945)
Milford, NJ: Louis Adamic, 1945. 16p., staplebound newsletter on toned newsprint, minor edgewear. Leftist political analysis of the postwar situation, collected from various sources. Includes a piece by Larry Tajiri, reprinted from the JACL's Pacific Citizen, about the service Japanese Americans could render in postwar Japan. More
Cat.No: 251031
Trikone Magazine: lesbian, gay & bisexual South Asians vol. 11, no. 1. January, 1996; DECADEnce: a tenth anniversary special
Palo Alto: Trikon, 1996. Magazine. 72p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, features, reviews, very good semi-glossy LGBT magazine in stapled, pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 164543
Trikone Magazine: lesbian, gay & bisexual South Asians vol. 12, no. 4, October 1997; a brave new world of film
Palo Alto: Trikon, 1997. Magazine. 24p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, features, reviews, very good semi-glossy LGBT magazine in stapled, pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 193166
Trikone Magazine: lesbian, gay & bisexual South Asians vol. 13, no. 4, October 1998; Mix & Match; the ups and downs of interracial relationships
Palo Alto: Trikon, 1998. Magazine. 24p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, features, reviews, very good semi-glossy LGBT magazine in stapled, pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 222258
Trikone: Lesbian & Gay South Asians [brochure]
San Jose: Trikone, n.d. Six-panel brochure, 3.75x8.5 inches, very good, introducing the group founded in 1986. Calls it "The oldest South Asian queer organization in the world." More
Cat.No: 186677
The twenty five year's history of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church (1972-1997)
Bellflower CA: Published by Editorial Committee of Korean Canaan Presbyterian Church, 1997. 305p., high-gloss paperstock throughout with numerous vignette photoportraits in color of parishioners; some period interiors in b&w and color site photography; first issue cloth boards titled silver in glossy marigold dj, jacket spine panel slightly faded, a very..... More
Cat.No: 175089
[Two brochures for Maum Meditation]
n.p. Maum Meditation, 2008, 2009. Two staplebound booklets, both with the main title "Cleansing Mind and Body," with leaflets laid in announcing seminars in the San Francisco Bay Area. More
Cat.No: 223339
Unity is Strength / Tuanjie jiu shi liliang / Support GCA Workers / Zhichi Zhong Xi gongren [pinback button]
[East Bay]: [1974?]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, bilingual text and artwork depicting seamstresses with a sewing machine, orange background. Very good; manufactured by East Bay pinmaker Robert Rush (though not identified as such on the pin). GCA was the Great Chinese American Sewing Company, known in Cantonese as Jung Sai..... More
Cat.No: 204511
Vietnamese "orphans"? We don't believe the media's lies! The Vietnamese DO take care of their children! No more kidnapping! [gummed sticker]
n.p. [197-]. Gummed sheet, about 5.75x4.5 inches, intended to be moistened and put up in public places. Faint stain at bottom edge. Issued in response to a plan in April,1975 to airlift orphans out of South Vietnam; there was widespread belief among anti-war activists that the children were not really..... More
Cat.No: 237551
Vietnamese Boat People, a cry to humanity: how a humanitarian effort turns into a tragedy / Les boat people Vietnamiens, un appel à l'humanité : comment une action humanitaire tourne à la tragédie
Orange County, California: Vietnamese Coordinating Council for Refugees, 1994. 21p., stapled glossy wraps, 8.5 x 11 inches, illus. with color and black and white photos, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Text in English and French. Only 6 in OCLC as of 3/2020. More
Cat.No: 249858
Vietnamese Directory USA. Northern California, 1989
San Jose: Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce, Northern California, 1989. 560p., telephone book, pages evenly toned, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 197043
Voices of the heart [program and personal letter/picture]
[San Francisco]: Jesus Christ is the Lord Church, [1991]. [16p.] including covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, lightly-worn program for the Philippine-American Christian singing group in stapled blue covers, letter from the Philippines with envelope and color photo laid-in. More
Cat.No: 178373
Wang Tiwu xian sheng ji nian ji
[Taibei-?]: Lianhe bao xi chuang ban ren Wang Tiwu xian sheng ji nian ji bian ji wei yuan hui, 1997. 245, 320p., two hardcover volumes, very good in slipcase; text in Chinese. Biography of the publishing magnate and member of the Chinese Kuomintang Central Standing Committee, whose business empire included..... More
Cat.No: 160181
Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents "Our recollections"
Berkeley: East Bay Japanese for Action, 1986. 335p., very good hardcover in dj with small price sticker scar, text in English and Japanese. Autobiographical pieces by members of the group, including discussions of immigration experiences, internment, work, religion and family life. More
Cat.No: 184815
Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents "Our recollections"
Berkeley: East Bay Japanese for Action, 1986. 335p., very good hardcover in dj, text in English and Japanese, inscribed in Japanese by Kato Mizue, the group's instructor. Autobiographical pieces by members of the group, including discussions of immigration experiences, internment, work, religion and family life. More
Cat.No: 196952
We've been hearing a lot about the Saigon orphans in the news lately... but some facts didn't make the news
Cambridge, MA: Vietnam Resource Center, [1975]. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Issued after Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of war orphans from South Vietnam before the fall of the Saigon government. Some critics claimed that many of the children were not actually orphans, but had been stolen away for..... More
Cat.No: 221383
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]
Hom, Nancy; Stephanie Lowe
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