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Tokyo: Rokko Shuppanbu, 1943. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. A very scarce wartime history of the Japanese in California that argues that the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans was a symptom of the same pervasive anti-Japanese attitudes among Americans that had contributed to the Second World War. The author, according to Yuji Ichioka writing in Before Internment (p. 263), was an "Issei who had lived in California for many years, working as a newspaperman for Japanese immigrant newspapers... The outbreak of the Pacific War found Ebina in Tokyo because he had returned to Japan in November 1941. At the beginning he was employed part-time by NHK Radio to write anti-American radio scripts and served as a commentator on the arrest and detention of Issei leaders and the eventual mass internment of the entire West Coast Japanese California." Ebina's December 1943 book, "Kariforunia to Nihonjin...rehashed the history of anti-Japanese racism in California and attributed the internment… Read More

Tieton, WA: Marquand Editions, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. All ten volumes in the "spines" series, also called "a series of essays on aspects of books and publishing." Ed Marquand is a book artist based in Seattle and Tieton, Washington, who makes editions of books for artists and museums and, from time to time, produces his own work as Marquand Editions. The contributors to this series are mostly writers and artists working with museums and museum presses. Each author contributes a short essay on some aspect of their practice (number 7 in the series is a sequence of images, rather than words-a visual essay). The books are printed letterpress and are handbound in decorated paper over boards. The series, referred to as "Spines" in the introductory notes accompanying most of the books, takes its name from the first volume in the series, written by Marquand, "On Spines and Memories." In that essay he ruminates on the spines of books, which receive little attention from designers although… Read More

London: Macmillan in Association with Goldsboro Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of 150 signed copies of this Swedish thriller, translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles. First edition in English (with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Copy no. 113 of 150 signed by Edvardsson on a tipped in page. "Signed copy" sticker on front of the jacket, probably as issued).

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A book whose title is not hyperbole. It manages to be stylistically inventive, mocking of publishing conventions, and yet truly moving and heartfelt. The inventiveness begins with the dust jacket: the front flap has no explanation of the book but rather prints a scene cut from chapter five. The blurbs on the back begin with "This is a blurb, it conveys no information about the book whatsoever...." The copyright page has a mock edition numberline that instead shows the author's self-identified "place on the sexual-orientation scale." As a first book, this novel-memoir should be a lot more expensive on the collector's market, except the publishers knew a good thing when they saw it and printed a bunch of copies of the first edition, which quickly sold out, launching an important literary career. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to the writer… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A monograph of reproductions of color images. 176 pages. 11-3/8 by 10-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Eggleston on the title page.

New York: Chas. Eisenmann, 1884. Very good. A portrait of two Burmese women and a child by Charles Eisenmann, a noted photographer who took many pictures of theater people at his studio in the Bowery. These women, identified on the verso (back) of the mount by name, are described in the New York Times (March 31, 1884) as part of a group of Burmese musicians hired by P. T. Barnum to play for his circus's famous white elephant. The Times translates the women's names as Miss Ripe (Mah Hmet) and Miss Fry (Mah Khin). The child is called Thit Woon (probably Woon Thit) in the newspaper. The Times' reporter described the scene before the performance: "Miss Fry and Miss Ripe puffed cigars which their liege lords had lighted for them, and chatted together. The men are to play in the great moral show, and the women are to dance to their music." This is an uncommon record of early visitors to the US from Myanmar. There is a small area of damage along the top edge of the print; the photograph is captioned on… Read More

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. Later printing. Pamphlet. Near fine. The legendary guide to M16 rifle maintenance published during the Vietnam War and designed and illustrated by cartoonist Will Eisner as part of his work on the Army's Preventive Maintenance Monthly comics magazine. 32 pages. 5 by 7-1/4 inches. DA Pam 750-30, 1 July 1969. First issued in June 1968. Minor scuffing to the covers, else a fine copy.

Canberra, Australia: Australian National University, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Puluwat is an atoll west of Truk in Micronesia; linguistically it lies approximately midway between the languages of Truk and Woleai." With many words related to canoeing and navigation. ix, 400, 10 pages. Pacific Linguistics, series C, no. 24. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, slightly faded at the spine.

Burton, MI: Edgeworks Abbey and Subterranean Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Ten previously uncollected short stories. This limited edition also has more than one hundred pages of facsimile typescripts of Ellison's original drafts. One of 324 numbered copies signed by Ellison. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a near fine slipcase (minor scuffing). This is copy 8 of 324 signed on the limitation page.

New York: Pyramid, 1975. Mass market paperback. Very good. Muggers, slashers, street gangs, lurkers in the shadows: No need to read Lovecraft to be thoroughly terrified." An early book by Ellison. This is the 1975 reissue of a book first published in 1958. Cover art by the Dillons, known for their children's books. Pyramid V3931. $1.25 price on cover. 207, [1] pages. First printing of this reissue. A very good copy with some creases and edgewear. Signed by Ellison on the title page, and somewhat uncommon thus.

Glasgow: David Russell, 1844. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. Reports on the business and activities of the Glasgow Emancipation Society and provides the text of remarks given by various speakers at the annual meeting. The Society aimed to abolish slavery worldwide. 47, [1] pages. Uncommon. Spine perished, else very good in the original string-bound printed wrappers. Pages unopened.

Capetown, South Africa: Scan Shop, 2000. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. An exhibition catalog of a multimedia project by the South African artist, published in an edition of 100 signed, numbered copies. Her first book and her first major exhibition. "Handwork for Keeping the Home is an exhibition about curating an archive. The keeper/curator is the artist herself, the archive, her familial relationships as they reveal and hide themselves in the collected fragments of three generations.. All these, sometimes disparate, bits and pieces have been worked into a narrative, punctuated by startling, occasionally shocking interventions. She literally digs up the past, reforms old memories, marks on her own body the patterns of her dearest connections. She has not only assembled a collection she has been an active agent in creating it. The ceramics, the embroideries and the book itself are the obvious works of creative construction, the excavation of a family grave, the sewing of thread into flesh,… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the Powell's Indiespensable (no. 85) version, a signed first edition, in a special slipcase, with a small booklet printing an interview with Enright. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and a fine slipcase. Signed by the author. With the booklet. Still SEALED, with a split to the shrinkwrap to insert the booklet into the slipcase.

[N.-pl. but San Francisco?]: Clifford Burke [Cranium Press], 1969. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. This is one of 50 signed and numbered copies of Maya Quarto 9. Letterpress printed on handmade paper. A lovely example of Bay Area fine press printing from the late 1960s and early 1970s in a series edited by David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker. [12] pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in sewn wrappers. Signed and numbered by Enslin on the colophon page.

New York: Harper, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A novel based on the life of the author's grandfather who worked as a night watchman in the 1950s while lobbying Congress to protect Native American rights. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. This copy is signed on the title page by Louise Erdrich, which due to Covid travel restrictions the year it was published, is uncommon. This copy comes with the information card, written by Ann Patchett, from the Parnassus Books first edition club. Even if signed copies become more common in the future, copies signed at the time of publication, like this one, will never be common.

Arcata, CA: Ericson Bro's, 1896. Photograph. Good. Image of three ships, the Defender (launched late August 1896; see Wallace Martin, Sail and Steam, page 264) completed or nearly so, with two other ships under construction. 9.5 by 7.5 inches on a 14 by 11 inch mount. Ornate printed title using left-leaning script font. Plain back. Image faded, short crack in bottom of mount.

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A yymposium by Robert A. Heinlein, John Taine, Jack Williamson, A. E. Van Vogt, L. Sprague de Camp, Edward E. Smith, and John W. Campbell, Jr. Each author contributes a short essay on science fiction writing. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

[N.-pl. but San Francisco?]: Clifford Burke [Cranium Press], 1969. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. This is one of 50 signed and numbered copies of Maya Quarto 3. Letterpress printed on handmade paper. A lovely example of Bay Area fine press printing from the late 1960s and early 1970s in a series edited by David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker. [12] pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in sewn wrappers. Signed and numbered by Hirschman on the colophon page.

Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2013. 93 pages. 7-3/4 by 10-3/4 inches. Edition of 200 copies. Colección del Estero (cover) and Colección del San Juan (colophon). A collection of poems, photocopied on white paper, with handcolored collaged section dividers. The cover is a collage made from cardboard, several types of cloth, overprinted text, and handcolored paper. Designed and illustrated by Abdel de la Campa. Esquivel Guerra is a Cuban poet. OCLC: BLSTP CLU CRU DEIAI EEM EYM FQG FXG HLS HUL IND IQU IUL IXA LRU NOC NYP PAU STF TEU UCW YUS. Fine.

Bellamar, Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones El Fortín, 2014. A poem, inspired by the author's trip to Mexico, bound in cardboard covers decorated with a handcolored portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo with a mounted artist's paint brush. The text of the poem is laser printed on white paper. The book, designed by the author, has handcolored and collage illustrations inside and a bookmark made for this production. Estevez (1953-2023) co-founded Ediciones Vigía, the acclaimed artist's book collective in Cuba. For the last ten years of his life, he pursued more personal projects, like this one, under the El Fortín imprint. OCLC describes the book as follows: Edition of 50 hand-made artists' books... Bound in cardboard; the front cover is a hand-painted portrait of artist Frida Kahlo with added collage elements (cutouts of painted flowers, a cork crescent moon, a cloth ribbon, and an artist's paint brush) and the words: Vida dolor [Life / Pain]. Hand-painted cutouts, craft paper and colored tissue paper are… Read More