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.
Songs & Scores
New York: Spectacular Books, 1998. Staplebound. [36p.], staplebound chapbook with handmade paper dust jacket, 6x7 inches, very good. Title page and edition page lightly stained from flower petals inlaid. 2nd edition, one of 50 copies. Spectacular chapbooks #1. Celona is a mixed Vietnamese American poet, born in 1974 to an..... More
Cat.No: 287822
The Real Moon of Poetry, and other poems
New York: Fencebooks, 2002. Paperback. 57p., trade-size frenchfold wraps. A very good copy. Celona is the daughter of "an American foreign service officer and his Vietnamese wife," per jacket flap, and "winner of the 2002 Alberta prize." More
Cat.No: 121468
Elmustee - a growing island of hope
n.p. New Age Printers, 2000. 251p., paperback, inscribed by the author, "manuscript" label on title page, otherwise very good. Novel about a fictional utopian community in India, by a Pakistani-American writer. More
Cat.No: 242957
Istoria ni Bonipasyo: kasla gloria ti Hawai'i (Bonipasyo's story: Hawaii...
Honolulu: Center for Philippine Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1991. 20p., staplebound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Program for the play about Filipino immigrants on a sugar plantation, including synopsis and brief introductions to the performers. More
Cat.No: 207029
Turning leaves: the photograph collections of two Japanese American families
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Paperback. xix, 267p., profusely illus. with black/white photography and snapshots, first wraps edition, 9x8.5 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 88143
From Dud to Stud, From Zero to Hero
np: Volcano Productions, nd. Pamphlet. [52]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x4.25 inches, very good condition zine-format comic. Japanese-American artist. More
Cat.No: 254614
Meiguo hua ren cang sang shi / A history of...
n.p. Southwest Chinese Welfare Council 西南華人福利支會, 2005. Paperback. 150p., slender paperback, very good. Text in both Chinese and English. Second edition. A total of 150 numbered pages of which 93 are in Chinese and 50 are in English. There appear to be several images with associated Chinese text that are..... More
Cat.No: 242196
The Yellow Journal: Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1983
San Francisco: Asian American Studies Program, School of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, 1983. Staplebound. 33p. staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches. Remnants of tape on front and rear covers,originally to keep it closed for mailing, otherwise light handling wear. Jeffrey Paul Chan was a founding member of the Asian American..... More
Cat.No: 280409
Oak Leaves
Oakland: The Student Association of Oakland High School, 1964. Pamphlet. 64p. staplebound booklet, 7x9.5 inches, cover toned around edges, interior clean. This annual literary publication of Oakland High School. More
Cat.No: 282006
The marvelous promises: the miracle of a Chinese Christian doctor...
New York: Grace Foundation, 1974. Hardcover. 456p., very good hardcover, lengthy personal inscription by the author on front endpaper, with his red seal (and red fingerprints from the seal ink, on the facing page). More
Cat.No: 212096
Pansy Lim Chan: a celebration of life
Oakland: Chapel of the Chimes, 2017. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure from Chan's funeral, with brief biography and program, including several performances by the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Chan's son, Terrence Chan, was a founding member of the SFGMC. More
Cat.No: 236874
Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the...
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Paperback. xxvii, 299p., very good softcover, inscribed by the editor to Chinese American scholar Him Mark Lai "With the deepest respect for your pioneering work;" the Lai estate's donation stamp on title page. More
Cat.No: 191143
Income and status differences between white and minority Americans; a....
Lewiston, NY: The Edward Mellen Press, 1990. Hardcover. iv, 370p., illustrated with graphs, figures and tables, very good first edition in original brown buckram cloth and gilt. Mellen Studies in Sociology Series, volume 3. The articles herein focus on Asian Americans and Hispanics in relation to Whites. More
Cat.No: 19122
Wo de qidao wen 我的祈禱文
Pickering, Ontario: Tin Tin Christian Materials Hut 天天基督教物品社, 2003. 130p., very good in wraps, text in Chinese. Chinese-Canadian Christian tract. More
Cat.No: 208842
The view from Zero Bridge; 2006 Philip Levine Prize for...
Tallahassee: Anhinga Press, 2007. Paperback. xi, 77p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Personal inscription signed by the poet and signed again on the title page, business card laid-in. Indian-American poet. More
Cat.No: 153051
The second highest world war: the Rama theater
San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2002. Paperback. xiv, 237 pages, very good paperback; inscribed by author. Novel of WWII set in a remote Himalayan part of India. More
Cat.No: 242179
Racial discrimination in Canada: Asian Minorities
San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1973. Hardcover. ix, 80p., 8.5x11 inches. Originally issued in wraps, this appears to be a relatively well done rebinding in green boards showing slight wear to extremities. Includes a chapter on racial discrimination in Canadian labor unions. More
Cat.No: 16044
English-Chinese automotive nomenclature / Ying Han qi che yong yu...
Indianapolis, IN: Marmon-Herrington Co., 1943. Paperback. [7], 236p., very good paperback. An effort to standardize the Chinese terminology for the automotive industry, with entries in English alphabetical order. More
Cat.No: 315508
Earth Water Light: Landscape Poems Celebrating the East End of...
Northport, NY: Birnham Wood Graphics, 1991. Paperback. [22]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps shelfworn, else very good condition. Chinese American poet. More
Cat.No: 307488
Eye to eye
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. Hardcover. 152p., first edition, very good condition in like dust jacket. Novel by the Chinese American author. More
Cat.No: 25453
The Mind's Amazement: Poems inspired by paintings, poetry, music, dance
Islip, NY: Live Poets Society, 1998. Paperback. 68p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, previous owner's rubberstamp on last page, else very good condition. Chinese-American writer and painter. More
Cat.No: 298985
What Matisse is after; poems and drawings by Diana Chang
New York: Contact II Publications, 1984. Paperback. 41p. paperback; 8.2x6.9 inches, mild sunning and handling, good to very good copy inscribed and signed by Chang on the front free endpaper. More
Cat.No: 175321
A woman of thirty
New York: Random House, 1959. Hardcover. 246p., first edition maroon cloth-backed boards gilt with tinted top edge, in dust jacket. A very nice production; tint is slightly sunned at one end, the dust jacket has a rubbed back panel (where all the laudatory blurbs are) and a tiny closed tear..... More
Cat.No: 177796
Fantasies and Expressions (The Sound of Poetry)
n.p. Self-published by the author, 1995. Staplebound. iv, 62p., staplebound pamphlet, 7.5x10.25 inches. Signed letter from Chang to a Ms. Thomas, presumably an employee of the library, inlaid. Illustrated with Chang's hand-painted original art. Spine rubbed, else very good. Only two copies found in the OCLC as of August 2022..... More
Cat.No: 289650
The laughter of my father
Bulosan, Carlos
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