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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Harmony and individualism: changing Chinese psychosocial functioning in Taipei and San Francisco
Taipei: Orient Cultural Service, 1970. xiv, 374 p., hardcover, neatly ex-library. More
Cat.No: 209835
The saffron veil
Nyack, NY: Prana Press, 1953. 198p., metallic bronze wraps discolored with small cigarette burn at the base (affecting four leaves including title page), first edition. Laid into this copy is a staplebound booklet of 8p., Acharya's long poem "Birth of Woman" More
Cat.No: 51578
The island of bicycle dancers a novel.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. 233p., boards gilt in glossy dj, first edition. A very nice copy. Author Adachi (Japanese father, Hungarian mother) was a bike messenger in the Big Apple and taught English as a foreign language. The heroine of his novel is a Korean/Japanese immigrant who gets..... More
Cat.No: 175592
A community secret; for the Filipina in an abusive relationship
Seattle: Seal Press, 1994. 70p., introduction, footnotes, illustrated with drawings, figures and photos, very good revised edition. More
Cat.No: 103225
Kidnap Kissinger? Eqbal Ahmad speaks
[Los Angeles]: n.pub. [1972]. A single 11x8.5 inch sheet serving as advertising 'poster' for a talk at Temple Leo Baeck on Sunday February 27 (corrected by hand from 28). B&W photo of Ahmad to left side of sheet. Born in India, Ahmad's family went to Pakistan during partition; he was..... More
Cat.No: 131829
Kidnap Kissinger? Eqbal Ahmad speaks
[Los Angeles]: n.pub. [1972]. handbill leaflet. A single 11x8.5 inch sheet serving as advertising 'poster' for a talk at Temple Leo Baeck on Sunday February 27 (corrected by hand from 28). B&W photo of Ahmad to left side of sheet. With rubberstamp of "The defense committee" on S. Parkview in..... More
Cat.No: 131830
From South Asia to North America: An Autobiography 1915-2000
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001. xv, 402p., very good hardcover in dj, inscribed by the author. By the Pakistani immigrant to Canada. More
Cat.No: 158555
Sidewalk Empire: "The Avenues"
San Francisco: Self-published by the author, 2011. Pamphlet. 14p., 5.5 x 8.5 inches, illus., very good condition in stapled wraps. Korean-American artist's comic about a turtle opening up a coffee shop in San Francisco's Richmond district. More
Cat.No: 237473
Walk the World
San Francisco: Self-published by the author, 2008. Pamphlet. 1p., 5.5 x 8.5 inches, illus., very good condition in stapled wraps. Short comic by the Korean-American artist. More
Cat.No: 237474
Killing floor; poems
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Hardcover. 49p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Ai, born Florence Anthony in Texas of Japanese-American / Choctaw / African American heritage latter took the name Ai Ogawa and wished to be know as Ai. Her second book. More
Cat.No: 19902
The Macrobiotic no. 103
Oroville: The George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation, [1975]. 52p., 5.25x8 inches, illustrations, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 123110
Estelle Akamine. Michele R. Hamrick. November 25-December 31, 1987, Contemporary Arts Center
[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
Come back to Afghanistan; a California teenager's story
New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. xi+339p., map, fine first US edition in dj, signed by author Akbar. The author's father sold his Hip-Hop clothing store in Oakland after 9/11 and returned to Afghanistan to become President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman. Said visited over three consecutive summers recording his travels on a...... More
Cat.No: 111678
Numismatic archaeology of North America: a field guide
New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. 289p., paperback, new. Black and white illustrations. Includes sections on early currency, Asian coins found at North American sites, shipwreck archeology, cleaning methods, etc. More
Cat.No: 213822
Cineraider No. 6: Young and Dangerous: An Overview
np: Cineraider Enterprises, 1997. Pamphlet. 46p., 5.5 x 8.5 inches, illus., very good condition in stapled wraps. Fanzine on Hong Kong cinema by a Japanese-American editor. Cover article is an overview of the "Young and Dangerous" trilogy of triad gang films. More
Cat.No: 237485
Tantra art Narayanan Akkitham exhibition, trace the history of 20 years
Tokyo [?]: Art Gallery of Shibuya Seibu, 1991. 14p., coated paperstock throughout with captioned color reproductions, staplebound 8x8.5 inch self-wraps. Laid in are duplicate gallery statements on matte acetate leaves. Very good copy. The inserted leaf has a short plug over the name of gallery-owner Shibuya Seibu, text starts with..... More
Cat.No: 175727
Voices of color
Seattle: Red Letter Press, 1999. 159p., introduction, contributors, index, photos, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. A collection of essays and articles on minority and feminist issues. More
Cat.No: 103266
Voices of color
Seattle: Red Letter Press, 1999. 159p., introduction, contributors, index, photos, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. This copy is briefly inscribed on the titlepage by Nellie Wong, and signed as "Aunt Nell." A collection of essays and articles on minority and feminist issues. More
Cat.No: 181518
The Filipinos in Hawaii; an annotated bibliography
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
Atsuki: a young Japanese traveler
Ithaca, NY: First Unitarian Church, 1990. 38p., very good in wraps. A book for children about Atsuki Waranabe, who came with his family to Ithaca but died at the age of four due to an unspecified congenital illness. Includes a portion of the Unitarian minister's sermon at his memorial service..... More
Cat.No: 197672
Madras on rainy days
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 309p., very good first edition in dj, signed by Ali on the title page. Debut novel signed on the title page by the India-born Californian author. More
Cat.No: 95469
Labor relations in the Hawaiian sugar industry
Berkeley: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, 1957. Paperback. viii, 108p., wraps slightly browned else very good condition. West Coast collective bargaining systems. More
Cat.No: 3715
Race, gender, and work. A multicultural economic history of women in the United States
Boston: South End Press, 1991. Paperback. xiii, 433p., very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 44479
Race, gender, and work. A multicultural economic history of women in the United States
Boston: South End Press, 1991. Hardcover. xiii, 433p. Very good in hardcover. No djk. More
Cat.No: 44485
Socio-economic analysis of Asian American business patterns
New Rochelle: NY, Amsun Associates, 1977. xiii, 99p., 8.5x11", stapled wraps. This study was prepared under contract with the Office of Minority Business Enterprise, U.S. Department of Commerce. More
Cat.No: 19250
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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