Search Results: Authors starting with J from McBride Rare Books

Austin: E.L. Steck, 1915. Very good.. [22]pp. Oblong octavo. Original green printed wrappers, string-tied. Light wear and chipping to edges, slightly faded. Internally clean. Handsome promotional work for the city of Austin, Texas, compiled and published by the American National Bank on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The work is extensively illustrated with halftones and includes a brief history of the city, highlighting the capitol, university, local businesses, and historic sites. The final few leaves are devoted to images of the bank and its directors, with a history of the establishment and a glowing assessment of its bright and thriving future.

Tokyo: Nihon Rikkokai, 1942. Very good.. [1],[3],[7],26,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and brown. Moderate foxing and soiling, minor edge wear to wrappers, some scuffing and minor losses to front wrapper. Text somewhat foxed and evenly toned, reflecting wartime book production standards. A very rare work encouraging Japanese civilians "of all classes" to emigrate to the Pacific regions now controlled by the Empire of Japan after the outbreak of World War II, namely Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines. There is even one short chapter describing Hawaii, though that was certainly wishful thinking at the time. The book adopts contemporary imperial Japanese expansionist rhetoric, referring in the introduction to Japan's "great global mission...to guide and educate the world's 1.2 billion human beings." The work includes chapters on preparing for overseas travel, etiquette, immigrant hygiene, overseas child education, information on the military, and more. Following the main text is a… Read More

[Various locations in Hawaii, 1951. Very good.. [43] leaves, illustrated with approximately 235 photographs either mounted or placed in mounting corners, generally between 3 x 4.25 inches or slightly smaller and 6 x 9 inches. Some of the larger images are produced by photographic studios. Oblong quarto. Contemporary brown textured cloth with pictorial vignette titled "Aloha Hawaii" on front cover, string tied. Minor wear and dust-soiling. A few detached leaves but contents generally in excellent condition. An attractive vernacular photograph album recording the life and activities of the family and friends of Walter Shigeru Tanabe (1906-1958) and his wife Ethel Misao Tanabe (1913-?) in Hawaii following the Second World War. Both Walter and Ethel were born in Hawaii from first-generation Japanese families; Walter's father, Shotaro, was born in Japan but emigrated to the Hawaiian Territory in 1898 where he worked as a field clerk on a sugar plantation. Many of the photographs emanate from the 1940s… Read More

New York: Nichi-Bei Minshu Linkai, by permission from Simon and Schuster, 1943. Very good.. 95,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear and soiling to covers. An interesting work with an even more interesting provenance. Report from Tokyo: A Message to the American People was written by Joseph Grew, the United States Ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1941. It was first published in English by Simon and Schuster in 1942, and in the next year in the present form - translated into Japanese for the Nichi-Bei Minshu Linkai, known in English as the Japanese American Committee for Democracy (JACD) in New York. The JACD was an anti-fascist group founded by Issei and Nisei activists and those sympathetic to their cause in New York City. The group was closely aligned with the Communist Party, and its early board members included the Executive Director of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin, and NAACP co-founder John Haynes Holmes. The work itself was written by Ambassador Grew to inform the American public of the… Read More

Tokyo: Raten Amerika Ch kai, 1957. Very good.. [1],114,[1]pp., plus color photographic frontispiece. Original pictorial wrappers printed in brown, tan, and green. Minor wear and dust-soiling. First edition of this rare biographical account of life in Brazil by Kiyoshi Yamamoto, a doctor of agriculture who served as Chairman of the Japan-Brazil Culture Promotion Committee. The work covers "fifty years of progress" among Japanese immigrant farmers and their lives in Brazil, published in Japan to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of "the hard work of our overseas compatriots" in South America. Chapters cover Japanese immigration to Brazil from the beginning, the population of Japanese colonies, the acceptance and status of Japanese emigrants, Japanese farmers and their situation, the state of Japanese commerce and industry in Brazil, the history of racial prejudice in the country (including part of a chapter on the importing of Black slaves from Africa), Japan's restrictions on emigration, as well as… Read More

Los Angeles, 1963. Very good.. 173,20pp., plus five plates. Original pictorial cloth boards, lettered in black and white. Boards slightly bowed, with minor wear and rubbing. Light toning internally. A scarce directory of members of the Hiroshima Prefecture Society (Kenjinkai) of Southern California, with a printed introduction and information about the group. Kenjinkai -- prefecture societies -- were influential parts of the Japanese American community, and the Hiroshima group was one of the largest. The entries here are organized by the English last name of the head of household, with names of spouses in parentheses, followed by addresses and phone numbers. The information is repeated in Japanese, with the addition of a notation identifying American-born Nisei. More than 100 businesses advertised in this directory, and the final leaves comprise several photographic plates, mostly captioned group portraits of society members. OCLC locates copies at just six institutions.

[Oakland]: Daireikyo Kenkyujo, 1950. About very good.. [14],336,[2],59,[1]pp., plus one two-sided plate. Original illustrated wrappers, printed in black, blue, red, and white, blue cloth backstrip with titles printed in yellow. Some scuffing and chipping to extremities, moderate sunning and rubbing to spine. Front hinge somewhat tender. Internally clean. The important first volume of a separately-published three-volume work focused on the Japanese-American experience during the internment period, the second and third volumes of which were published in the subsequent two years following the present work. According to Ichioka in A Buried Past, the overall title for the three-volume series translates to Japanese Americans During the War and the Real Conditions of America. The title of the present volume translates roughly to The Bitter Story of Japanese Americans, and covers Ikeda's "views of religion and his internment." It is the only volume of the three focused solely on his internment, as the… Read More

Tokyo: Jitsugyo No Nihonsha, 1937. Very good.. 4,5,456,7,[6]pp., plus three plates. Original cream cloth stamped in blue, black, and gold. In original pictorial slipcase. Moderate staining and soiling to boards. Endpapers toned, very occasional light foxing to text, unobtrusive dampstain to fore-edge. Slipcase very worn and mostly separated, but rarely seen with the work in any condition. Withal, a nice copy of a rare book. A scarce Japanese-American historical survey of American history and especially the relationship between the U.S. and Japan, written by Shin'ichiro Hasegawa, who was born in Japan but spent a considerable portion of his life in California. The work is printed mostly in Japanese, but includes a seven-page section in English which prints the 1912 "Memorial Service for Meiji Emperor," presumably written by Hasegawa as a student representative at the emperor's memoriam, held at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles. "A work on American society and U.S.-Japan relations. A… Read More

Los Angeles, 1951. Very good.. Thirty leaves, illustrated with 307 photographs between 1.75 x 1 inches and 7.5 x 9.75 inches, most leaves with at least one manuscript annotation in white ink, mostly in Japanese but occasionally in English, and ink annotations to the versos of the corner-mounted photographs. Oblong folio. Contemporary tan paper-covered boards, string tied, with picture window on front cover showing a floral scene of three roses above the word "Photographs." Minor rubbing and edge wear to covers, short closed tear to front cover, small chip to spine of rear cover. Minor marginal chipping to album leaves, some loose photos. A unique collection of photographs centering on Yoshiko Yamasaki (1929-2013), a young Japanese-American woman in Los Angeles, as well as some of her life and her family's life in Japan. The album documents her life in the immediate post-World War II years, and features Yoshiko, her friends, and family alone or in groups, at church and at school, posed with friends… Read More

Tokyo, 1929. About very good.. 249pp. Original drab printed wrappers. Spine lightly toned and chipped, light soiling and wear to covers. Inscribed on title page, contemporary ink notation on rear endpapers. First edition. A collection of essays originally published in the Japanese American News; the author worked for the Los Angeles branch of the newspaper. The essays, most quite short and some comprised of just a few lines of poetry, offer observations on Japanese-American life and culture. Content is personal commentary rather than journalistic reporting, but does include one poem about smuggling people over the U.S.-Mexico border (p.65). Others address the second generation Nisei. We note that the author's name is transliterated differently in several places and is, quite possibly, a pseudonym. The present copy is inscribed on the title page, possibly by the author. We note two copies in OCLC at the National Diet Library and Waseda University. JANM Bibliography, 216. A Buried Past, 677.

Tokyo: Hattori Shoten, 1908. About very good.. [2],3,6,448,50,[1]pp., plus twenty-two plates. Original publisher's cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Some abrading to boards and spine, modest edge wear, one small chip to spine. Occasional minor foxing, hinges a bit tender, small chip to front pastedown. A Meiji-era writer travels across the United States and sails for Europe, then makes the same trip in reverse on a different route. Togawa reports on the state of the West in 1906. His "observations are clear and witty, and the reader is encouraged to seek out his work for its sheer entertainment value" - Susanna Fessler in Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912, p.182. The work is illustrated throughout with reproductions of gorgeous illustrations by Japanese artists, including Okada Saburosuke, featuring American and European scenes. Some are tipped in; others are printed on inserted plates, including several color lithographs, and a… Read More

[Various places, 2016. Very good.. Approximately 400 items, including almost 200 photographs in varying formats, seventy manuscript letters and cards, three address books, and about 100 pieces of printed material and ephemera, as well as a signed baseball. Varying light wear. The archive of Tatsuo Nakase (1916-2003) who brought his love for baseball with him to the Japanese internment camp in Arizona where he was imprisoned with his family during World War II. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which set into motion the expulsion of 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast. This collection includes personal and professional photographs, ephemera, correspondence, an autographed baseball, and more material from the 1930s to 2016. Most notably, the archive documents Nakase's baseball experiences, both inside and outside the prison camp. While baseball is traditionally viewed as an American pastime, it has been equally… Read More

[Milwaukee, Wi, 1985. Very good.. 45 rpm record in printed sleeve. Minor edge wear. A rare music single, with instrumental b-side, issued by the Miller Brewing Company in celebration of Black History Month in 1985. The front side prints the title and first verse of the lyrics of the song; the verso explains the motivation behind the record's release: "'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' was written by the noted Black poet and civil rights leader, James Weldon Johnson and was set to music by his brother, Jay R. Johnson, actor-musician. Originally intended for use in a program given by a group of Jacksonville, Florida schoolchildren to celebrate Lincoln's birthday, its words convey a sense of birthright and heritage. Often referred to as the 'Black National Anthem,' it is sung at various public gatherings." The artists who recorded the present version of the song are a veritable Hall of Fame of soul and rhythm-and-blues music in the latter 20th century: Al Green, Deniece Williams, Patti Austin, Roberta Flack,… Read More

San Francisco: A.C. Berthier & Co. General Agents, 1896. Good.. [4]pp. on a single large folio sheet. Printed entirely in green ink. Numerous well-executed tape repairs and reinforcements along fold lines and edges. Minor soiling and rubbing. A decidedly rare real estate promotional for a neighborhood development which now stands in the southernmost portion of Oakland, California. Originally a separate unincorporated town, Elmhurst was annexed by Oakland in 1909, and today is considered part of East Oakland. The present promotional work on Elmhurst includes a variety of text touting the advantages of the subdivision, including "Cement sidewalks laid in front of every lot," "No residence smaller than 10 x 125 feet," and "A Perfect Paradise for Children." The inner two pages of the present promotional fold out to reveal a large plat map of the Andrew Jones subdivision called the "Jones Tract." This neighborhood, surveyed in November 1895 by J. George Smith, is intended to be serviced by both the… Read More

[Various locations, 1957. Very good.. Approximately 570 manuscript and typed letters, signed, postcards, and notes, about half longer than one page, totaling over 1,000 pages, and approximately 180,000 words, plus one manuscript notebook, a typed article, numerous telegrams, printed programs, and other ephemeral items. Expected wear, and mostly very clean and well preserved. A voluminous collection of early letters written by and to Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld and Dr. Toby Bookholtz Lelyveld, prominent Jewish intellectuals, activists, parents, and religious leaders covering over twenty-five years of their lives in the early-middle 20th century. The present archive is comprised of about 140 letters, postcards, notes, and telegrams sent between Rabbi Lelyveld and Dr. Lelyveld beginning early in their life together, and written from numerous locations as the couple and their family moved or traveled to numerous places within the United States and other countries. The collection also includes hundreds of… Read More

New York: F. & R. Lockwood, 1824. Very good.. 80pp. plus frontispiece. 12mo. Original printed stiff wrappers; later paper spine. Light wear and soiling to wrappers, contemporary ownership inscription on front cover. Lightly foxed. Second American edition, after the first of 1822. The sixth part of Irving's catechism series, issued in twelve total parts, though the only one related to Judaism. The work is divided into three books describing the Civil State, Ecclesiastical State, and Domestic Condition. Subjects covered include the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Sabbath, synagogues and other places of divine worship, annual religious festivals, marriage and other domestic matters, etc. The whole text is couched in the past tense and seems to focus primarily on historical Israelites. The frontispiece depicts a Passover Seder, in which the participants are clothed in historical robes. Relatively scarce. OCLC locates four copies of this second edition -- New York Public Library, University of… Read More