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.
Filipino-American Resource Directory: August, 1990
Pinole: Contra Costa Library System, 1990. Spiral_bound. 89 pg. comb-bound directory, 7x8.5 inches. Ex-libris copy with withdrawn sticker on back cover, dog-eared pages, extensive wear, good reading copy only. Provides list of social services helping Filipino Americans in the Bay Area. More
Cat.No: 276691
Fomen / Buddha Gate 2002 佛門
Lafayette, CA: Buddha Gate Monastery 佛門寺, 2002. 86p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches; numerous photos. Text mostly in Chinese. Introduction to the Buddhist temple and those who work there. More
Cat.No: 182081
Fong Fong Chinese Cookies [label for cookie tin]
San Francisco: Fong Fong Bakery, [196-?]. Approximately 15x5.5 inch pictorial label for cookies made at the Chinatown bakery and ice cream shop that opened in the 1930s. Style appears to be 1960s; phone number has letter prefix GA. More
Cat.No: 202862
Foreign medical graduates: a case of retributive justice
New York: Emergency Defense Committee for the FMGs, [1975-?]. 27p., wraps, with laid in slip, "State Department Interpretation" Defense of medical workers with degrees from the Philippines and other countries who were being pressured to leave the US. More
Cat.No: 124549
Foreign medical graduates: a case of retributive justice
New York: Emergency Defense Committee for the FMGs, [1975-?]. Pamphlet. 27p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn, staples rusted, else good condition. Defense of medical workers with degrees from the Philippines and other countries who were being pressured to leave the US. More
Cat.No: 204943
[Four matchbooks from San Francisco Chinatown restaurants]
San Francisco: various, n.d. Four matchbooks from restaurants on Grant Avenue, all with phone numbers starting with YUkon, very good. Restaurants are Andy Wong's Chinese Sky Room, Lamps of China, Kan's, and Gong Gong. Might have to remove the actual matches before mailing for safety; a moot point if you..... More
Cat.No: 197605
Free India Committee: News Bulletin. October 21, 1942
New York: Free India Committee; Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1942. Newsletter. 4p., mimeographed 8.5x14 inch sheets stapled together, horizontal fold crease, otherwise very good. The Free India Committee's address is listed as 2013 Fifth Avenue; this was the Harlem Ashram, founded by Ralph Temlin and Jay Holmes Smith, two former Methodist..... More
Cat.No: 295653
Fusion: a Japanese-American anthology [five issues]
San Francisco: Asian American Studies Department, San Francisco State University, 1988-1992. Magazine. Five of the eight issues published (4-8); all 8.5x11 inches, very good. Poetry, short fiction, essays, art and photography on themes of the Japanese-American experience, including internment. More
Cat.No: 292912
Fusion: a Japanese-American anthology [six issues]
San Francisco: Asian American Studies Department, San Francisco State University, 1985-1992. Magazine. Six of the eight issues published (2, 4-8); all 8.5x11 inches, very good. Poetry, short fiction, essays, art and photography on themes of the Japanese-American experience, including internment. More
Cat.No: 292911
Gagaku: the music and dances of the Japanese imperial household
San Francisco: Japan Society of San Francisco; Consulate General of Japan, with the cooperation of the Society for Asian Art and the San Francisco Ballet, 1959. Pamphlet. [16p.], staplebound wraps, overwrap of Japanese Haruki paper with printed title, untrimmed edges, very good condition. Program for the event, including several ads..... More
Cat.No: 204904
Gaoxiong shi jian zhuan ji 高雄事件專輯
Leucadia, CA: FAHR (Formosan Association for Human Rights), 1980. Paperback. ii, 241p., paperback, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Text in Chinese. On the late 1979 Kaohsiung Incident, in which Taiwanese government troops cracked down on pro-democracy demonstrations. Published in exile, this detailed compendium chronicles the event that proved to be a...... More
Cat.No: 294148
General management plan newsletter: number 2, March 2003: The Minidoka...
Hagerman, ID: National Park Service U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minidoka National Monument, 2003. Newsletter. 8p. including covers, 11.25x13.5 inches, illustrated with b&w photos and a map/plan of the camp, very good in original semigloss wraps. Oversized newsletter of articles, photos, plans and news concerning the internment camp in Hagerman..... More
Cat.No: 97018
Getting together / Tuan jie bao [7 issues]
New York; San Francisco: I Wor Kuen, 1970-1974. Newspaper. Seven issues of the tabloid format newspaper issued by the Asian American Marxist-Leninist organization, text in English and Chinese, all with horizontal fold, evenly toned. Numbers present are vol. 1 no. 6; vol. 2 nos. 6-8; vol. 3 nos. 2 and..... More
Cat.No: 298538
Getting together / Tuan jie bao. Vol. 2 no. 7...
New York: I Wor Kuen, 1971. Newspaper. Single issue of the tabloid format newspaper issued by the Asian American Marxist-Leninist organization, 12p. in English and 12p. in Chinese, plus an 8-page bilingual supplement devoted to the UN meeting to decide on the PRC's admission, and discussing the threat posed in..... More
Cat.No: 292508
Getting together / Tuan jie bao. Vol. 2 no. 8...
New York: I Wor Kuen, 1971. Newspaper. Single issue of the tabloid format newspaper issued by the Asian American Marxist-Leninist organization, 12p. in English and 12p. in Chinese. Horizontal fold, evenly toned, very good. Laid in is a supplement with a transcript of an interview with Zhou Enlai. More
Cat.No: 292510
Getting together / Tuan jie bao. Vol. 3 no. 2...
New York: I Wor Kuen, 1972. Newspaper. Single issue of the tabloid format newspaper issued by the Asian American Marxist-Leninist organization, 7p. in English and 10p. in Chinese. Horizontal fold, evenly toned, very good but for a penned arrow on the cover of the Chinese side, correcting alignment of text..... More
Cat.No: 298730
Gidra. April 1972
Los Angeles: Gidra, Inc., 1972. Newspaper. Single issue of the radical Asian-American newspaper, 24p., evenly toned, outer fold crease has a 2-inch split at the right end; remnant of erased mailing address. A reading copy only. More
Cat.No: 200670
Go for Broke, Inc.: The National Nisei Veterans Organization
Richmond, CA: Go For Broke, [1982]. Pamphlet. 8p., 7x8.5 inch brochure, lightly toned along edges else very good condition; introduction to the organization. Includes an advertisement for the book by the same title. More
Cat.No: 201728
The Granite. 1914
Durham, NH: New Hampshire College, 1914. 159p., very good hardcover in pebbled boards with gilt title and emblem. Yearbook for 1914, with black and white photos of students, faculty and activities. Bookplate of former owner, noting his fraternity (Gamma Theta), with a menu for the fraternity's 1914 senior banquet laid..... More
Cat.No: 196468
Growing Up Asian in America: Prize Winning Essays and Artwork...
San Francisco: Asian Pacific American Community Fund, 1997. Staplebound. 47p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches. Ex-libris with usual defects, top right corner stained, else good. More
Cat.No: 289829
Growing up Asian in America; Asian Pacific Heritage Month 1995
[San Francisco]: The Asian Pacific American Heritage Committee, 1995. 85p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good in original stapled red wraps. Essays by Asian American children from the Bay Area, ages 6 to 22. More
Cat.No: 113976
Growing with God: 75 years. The 75th anniversary of the...
Montreal: the Church, 1992. 74p. in English, 110 p. in Chinese; very good paperback. History of the Church, with black and white photos scattered through the text. More
Cat.No: 258768
Hand me down history; stories from San Francisco seniors
San Francisco: International Institute of San Francisco, [1999]. 64p., 8x10 inches, wraps. Most of the oral histories concern Asian American elders. More
Cat.No: 80731
Handbook for Teaching Korean-American Students developed by the Bilingual Education...
Sacramento: California Department of Education, 1992. xiv, 178p., 9x6 inch wraps, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 176446
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Los Angeles: Visual Communications, 1980. Staplebound. [24 pg.] staple-bound pamphlet, 8.5" x 11". Features b&w photographs of the actors, set, and filming of Hito Hata. Also features an inlaid program advertising the movie's screening at the Palace of Fine Arts. Only two copies in OCLC as of December 2021. Produced..... More
Cat.No: 276547
The laughter of my father
Bulosan, Carlos
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