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.
Contemporary Bangladeshi Poetry
Merrick, NY; Oyster Bay, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications; New Feral Press, 2019. Paperback. 200p., paperback, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. First printing. Poetry from Bangladeshi and Bangladeshi American poets. More
Cat.No: 288448
Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent; A South Korean...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. Paperback. xviii, 306p., illustrated with b&w photos, some line maps and tables; softbound in 9x6 inch decorated wraps, mild signs of age and handling: paperstock is slightly toned, covers show a slight curl, a nice copy, quite sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 250094
Gay Parent Magazine: vol. 7, #38, Jan-Feb, 2005; Bay Area...
Forest Hills: Gay Parent Mag, 2005. Magazine. 16p., 8.25x10.75 inches, articles, news, services and resources, illustrations, very good magazines on cheap newsprint, stapled color pictorial wraps. Inexpensively-produced magazine to accompany the Gay Parent web site. More
Cat.No: 255076
Our response to the report of October 31, 1978 on...
New York: The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, 1979. Paperback. viii, 271p., numerous documents in facsimile, 9x6 inch plain printed buff wraps; unobtrusive accession label on the front cover (letterhead cover text laid in). More
Cat.No: 150020
Our response to the report of October 31, 1978 on...
New York: The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, 1979. Paperback. viii, 271p., numerous documents in facsimile, 9x6 inch plain printed buff wraps; slight toning along top edge, otherwise in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 310679
The enemy that never was: a history of the Japanese...
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. Hardcover. vi, 456p. + 16p. photos, very good reprint edition in an unclipped, worn dust jacket with several closed tears. More
Cat.No: 119792
Born free and equal; photographs of the loyal Japanese-Americans at...
New York: U.S. Camera, 1944. 112p., slender paperback, profusely illustrated with Adams' black and white photography, 8x11 inches; lower 1.25 inches of spine panel is torn, smaller tear at top of spine; ex-library, with stamps on half-title page and last page. More
Cat.No: 130708
Of Andagi and Sanshin: Okinawan Culture in Hawai'i
Honolulu: Hui O Laulima, 1988. Paperback. ix, 112p., wraps, illus., wraps shelfworn and sunned else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 303930
Seongmin Yoo
Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 2021. Paperback. 58p., 8.5x11 inch wraps; color photos., in very good condition. Korean-American artist. More
Cat.No: 313678
A community Secret: for the Filipina in an abusive relationship
Seattle: Seal Press, 1994. Paperback. 70p., introduction, footnotes, illustrated with drawings, figures and photos, very good revised edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 103225
Affirming the Human and the Holy
Whitinsville, MA: Affirmation Books, 1979. Paperback. 101p., wraps, 5.5 x 8 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn, a few passages marked in pen else good condition. Foreword describes the books as "a series of reflections wherein the author invites her readers to ponder the tremendous potential they have within themselves to..... More
Cat.No: 251063
Encanto: New Poems
Manila: Anvil Publishing, 1994. Paperback. xv, 98p., paperback, 5.25x8.25 inches. Price sticker on rear, ownership sticker inside cover, else very good. Signed and inscribed on the title page. Aguilar-Carino, now known as Luisa A. Igloria, was born in the Philippines and moved to the U.S. In 2020, she was named..... More
Cat.No: 282378
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. 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 Los..... More
Cat.No: 131830
From South Asia to North America: An Autobiography 1915-2000 [inscribed...
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Hardcover. xv, 402p., introduction, index, illustrated with b&w photos, personal inscription signed with initials by the author, very good first edition stated in boards and unclipped dj. By the Pakistani immigrant to Canada. More
Cat.No: 158555
Wish the World
San Francisco: Self-published by the author, 2008. Pamphlet. 12p., 5.5 x 8.5 inches, illus., very good condition in stapled wraps. Variant edition with only b&w illustrations (other version has both b&w and color) and a different font for the title. Short comic by the Korean-American artist. More
Cat.No: 269422
Estelle Akamine. Michele R. Hamrick. November 25-December 31, 1987, Contemporary...
[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 [signed]
New York: Bloomsbury, 2005. Hardcover. xi+339p., j, signed by author Akbar on title page, map, characters, prologue, epilogue, near-fine first US edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. The author's father sold his Hip-Hop clothing store in Oakland after 9/11 and returned to Afghanistan to become President Hamid..... 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
Voices of color
Seattle: Red Letter Press, 1999. Paperback. 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
Night-Scene, The Garden
New York: Red Dust, 1992. Paperback. 32p. paperback, 5.5x8.25 inches, very good. Alexander was born in Allahabad, India and raised in Kerala and Sudan. She received her PhD from Nottingham University and later moved to New York City, where she taught English at the Graduate Center/Hunter College until her passing..... More
Cat.No: 279909
Madras on rainy days
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Hardcover. 309p., very good first edition in dust jacket, signed by Ali on the title page. Debut novel 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, title and author's name penciled on spine, else very good condition. West Coast collective bargaining systems. More
Cat.No: 3715
Common Lives/Lesbian Lives: a lesbian quarterly; #35, Summer 1990
Iowa City: Common lives/Lesbian lives a Collective, 1990. Paperback. 128p., illustrations, poetry, stories, good ex-library copy with taped call numbers on spine, trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 271535
Letters to Montgomery Clift: a novel
San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2002. Hardcover. 244p., very good first edition, first printing stated of the first novel by the gay Filipino American author, boards and unclipped dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 93823
The laughter of my father
Bulosan, Carlos
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