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.
Standing Above a Sigh: Poems
Victoria, BC: Friesen press, 2017. Paperback. 155p., paperback, 6x9 inches, very good. First edition. Azad is a Montreal-based Iranian-Canadian poet, writer, and artist. More
Cat.No: 289203
Ngu’o’i xu’a da ve: tieu thuyet tinh cam
Westminster, CA: Nha xuat ban Viet Nam, 1988. 343p., paperback, ex-library, a decent reading copy. Reprint of the 1968 Vietnamese-language novel. More
Cat.No: 227984
City in the sun: the Japanese concentration camp at Poston...
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1974. Hardcover. 222p. including numerous photos, previous owner's name penned on title page, else very good hardcover in a price-clipped and lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Third printing. More
Cat.No: 64459
American and Japanese Relocation in World War II; Fact, Fiction...
Medford: Webb Research Group, 1990. Paperback. 237 pg. paperback in dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches. Dust jacket heavily worn and stained, else very good. Inlaid is a promotional brochure for Webb Research publications. Baker, a lifelong conservative, was infamous for her opposition to the designation of Manzanar as a...... More
Cat.No: 278627
American and Japanese Relocation in World War II; Fact, Fiction...
Medford: Webb Research Group, 1992. Hardcover. 237 pg. hardcover, 8.5 x 11 inches. Ex-libris copy with call number crossed out on front cover, barcode on rear cover, renewal slip pasted in to back page, else very good. Third printing. Baker, a lifelong conservative, was infamous for her opposition to the..... More
Cat.No: 278732
Patterns of Adjustment: A second look at Indochinese resettlement in...
Orange, CA: Immigrant and Refugee Planning Center, 1984. Paperback. 128p., wraps, tables, charts, wraps lightly worn, bottom corner of front wrap dog-eared, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 303995
Matrix: women's newsmagazine; vol. 15, #1, April 1991
Santa Cruz: Matrix, 1991. Newspaper. 30p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, articles, events, ads, services and resources, poetry, interviews and reviews, slightly toned and worn, pen notation and small tear on front wrap else good condition. Special issue on Asian/Pacifica women. Includes an essay by Bettina Aptheker. More
Cat.No: 240318
Matrix: women's newsmagazine; vol. 15, #2, May 1991
Santa Cruz: Matrix, 1991. Newspaper. 27p., folded tabloid newspaper, photos, articles, events, ads, services and resources, poetry, interviews and reviews, slightly toned and worn, else very good condition. Stories on the dangers of dieting, the fight for Native Hawaiian rights, bisexual literature, and more. More
Cat.No: 240319
Noesis: Poems
Bryn Mawr: Dorrance Publishing, 1982. Hardcover. 63p. hardcover in dust jacket, 5.75x8.5 inches, very good condition in a price clipped and edgeworn dust jacket. Poetry written from antinuclear stance. Baljian-Gara was born in Providence and was a longtime educator at various schools until her retirement in 1978. She passed away..... More
Cat.No: 280504
Profiles of Ethnic Media; California's New Civic Communicators
San Francisco: New California Media, 2002. Paperback. 92p., very good softcover, 10.75x8.25 inches, very good. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Chapters on Hispanic, Asian American, African American, and Native American media among others. More
Cat.No: 278565
Woman of Power: a magazine of feminism, spirituality, and politics;...
Cambridge: Woman of Power, Inc., 1991. Magazine. 88p., 8.5x11 inches, art, photos, poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, ads, very good feminist arts magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 282788
Woman of Power: a magazine of feminism, spirituality, and politics;...
Cambridge: Woman of Power, Inc., 1991. Magazine. 88p., 8.5x11 inches, art, photos, poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, ads, very good feminist arts magazine in stapled pictorial wraps and blank outer wraper with address label. More
Cat.No: 282793
Cracklers at Night
Georgetown: Finishing Line Press, 2010. Pamphlet. 28 pg. staplebound chapbook, 8.5" x 5.25", very good. Blue decorative ribbon tied around spine. Only one holding in OCLC as of December 2021. Rita Banerjee is a poet and scholar who received her MFA from the University of Washington, and her PhD from..... More
Cat.No: 276085
Ying wen xiao mo nu zai USA 英文小魔女在USA
Taipei: Lianhe wenxue chubanshe 聯合文學出版社, 1998. 169p., very good in wraps. Autobiography of the Harvard-educated English teacher. More
Cat.No: 158150
The Darker Fall: Poems
Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2002. Paperback. 79p., wraps, 6 x 9 inches, wraps worn, small stain on half-title else very good condition. Signed and inscribed by Barot on title page. Filipino-American poet. More
Cat.No: 249098
Why I love America
Chesapeake, VA: Philippine Christian Center, 2002. Paperback. 151p. + [38]p. photos, wraps, very good condition. "The answer to the terrorists attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade center ..." - front wrap. Philippine attorney & evangelist, "head of a family law firm in the Philippines known as Barredo, Barredo..... More
Cat.No: 90343
Bailaya
[Quezon City]: University of the Philippines Press, 1997. Paperback. xx, 194p., paperback, 5x7.9 inches, very good. Bookmark with Barrios poem inlaid. Play primarily in Tagalog with lines in English. Barrios is a lecturer in Filipino at UC Berkeley in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies. More
Cat.No: 283423
Bitter strength: a history of the Chinese in the United...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Hardcover. xi, 305p., bookstore stamp on rear pastedown endpaper else very good condition in like dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 28810
Bitter strength: a history of the Chinese in the United...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964. Hardcover. xi, 305p., very good condition in an unclipped and lightly toned dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Barth on the free front endpaper. More
Cat.No: 11345
The Pied Piper plays the banshee
Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2005. Hardcover. 80p., very good hardcover in dust jacket. Bangladeshi immigrant author. "In places, the poet rather boldly and skillfully parlays his alternative worldview to the western readers - unmindful about being PC." - cover blurb by M. Omar Farooq. Banshee refers here to a type of Bangladeshi..... More
Cat.No: 199204
The demography of racial and ethnic groups
New York: Academic Press, 1978. Hardcover. xiv, 321p., previous owner's bookplate, first printing, dj. Emphasis on African Americans, but covering most other American groupings as well. A very good copy. More
Cat.No: 113148
The demography of racial and ethnic groups
New York: Academic Press, 1978. Hardcover. xiv, 321p., previous owner's bookplate, no dj, first printing, a very good copy. Emphasis on African Americans, but covering most other American groupings as well. More
Cat.No: 148866
Emmy and the Fighting Fruits
Mountain View: Self-published by the author, 2011. Staplebound. [18]p. staple-bound comic, 8.5x 6.25 inches, very good. First printing. No copies in OCLC as of 3/2022. Artist is Chinese American, and works as an engineer in the Bay Area. More
Cat.No: 276537
Emmy Vs. the Mall; a short story
Mountain View: Self-published by the author, 2011. Staplebound. [12]p. staple-bound comic, 8.5x 6.25 inches, very good. First printing. No copies in OCLC as of July 2022. Xiong is Chinese American, and works as an engineer in the Bay Area. More
Cat.No: 288601
Japanese American National Museum: Annual Report, July 1, 1993 -...
Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, 1994. Paperback. 54p., wraps, illus., wraps rubbed, a few small stains on rear wrap, else very good condition. Photography credits laid in. More
Cat.No: 309160
The laughter of my father
Bulosan, Carlos
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