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Shirt With Embroidered Signatures of 46 Japanese American Internees

Shirt With Embroidered Signatures of 46 Japanese American Internees

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Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC
Title
Shirt With Embroidered Signatures of 46 Japanese American Internees
Seller
Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Description
[Poston Interment Camp, Arizona]:[circa 1944-1945]. Cotton shirt measuring 20" from tip of collar to waist, and 16" from shoulder to shoulder. Good: stained and lacking buttons. This is a button down shirt with the embroidered signatures of 46 Japanese Americans we believe were interned at the Poston War Relocation Center. Poston was the largest of the Japanese-American internment camps with a peak population of over 17,000, most of whom were from Southern California. Built by Del Webb of retirement community fame, it was on built on the land of the Colorado River Reservation when the government took control of 71,000 acres. The "227 " embroidered on the back just below the collar is an homage to the first group of Japanese Americans that were forced to evacuate, on six days notice: the 227 residents of Bainbridge Island in Washington state. The island actually held 276 Japanese Americans and those who were away during the expulsion were not allowed to return. Our attribution of place and date is based on the two full names embroidered on the shirt. The first, Yukiye Kanagawa, was born in 1921. There is no mention of a Yukiye Kanagawa in the National Archives records of entry into the camps, but Poston's final accountability roster from November 1945 shows Yukiye with both her maiden and married names. Her maiden name was Nakamura, and though there are two Yukiye Nakamuras listed as internees in the entry records, the other was born in 1939. Yukiye, from Reedly, California, was first interned at Poston, August 4, 1942 and was married to Robert Kiyoshi Kanagawa on February 4, 1944—hence our date attribution (they were both released February 8, 1945.) The other full name we read as "Helen Murata" but nobody by that name appears in any internment record we could locate. There was, however, a Helen Murato interned at Poston as well, the final letter of her name could have easily been subject to a transcription error in the records of the time. We are aware of another shirt containing embroidered signatures of internees from Tule Lake, held by Sacramento State University, but have been unable to locate any others. An exceptional artifact of internment with a palpable presence.
Macao from Penha Hill

Macao from Penha Hill by HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885)

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Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books
Title
Macao from Penha Hill
Author
HEINE, Wilhelm (1827-1885)
Seller
Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: G.P. Putnam & Company, 1856. Tinted lithograph mounted on support sheet with printed letters as issued with small stab holes where previously bound. A mid nineteenth century view of Macao, China from Penha Hill, published as the first topographical scene in Heine's Graphic Scenes of the Japan Expedition, showing the city's harbour, churches, fortified heights, and waterfront at a moment when Macao's older role in the China trade was being overtaken by Hong Kong. Heine's view looks down from Penha Hill across Macao's semi-circular harbour, with the town rising in terraces from the waterfront toward its churches, gardens, and fortified heights. The composition places Macao's maritime and religious identity in a single prospect: small vessels fill the inner harbour, larger ships lie farther out, and the built town gathers around the shoreline beneath prominent ecclesiastical and defensive structures. In the foreground, porters carrying shoulder poles and a seated group of robed women animate the hillside road, giving the view a local and social immediacy beyond its topographical function. Macao had developed from the sixteenth century as the principal Portuguese settlement on the South China coast, occupying a narrow peninsula near the entrance to the Pearl River system and serving as a crucial intermediary point in trade between China, Japan, India, and Europe. Its urban form is clearly legible in Heine's image. The waterfront, known as the Praia, curves around the harbour below the elevated town, while Penha Hill provides the high vantage from which Macao appears as an amphitheatre of houses, churches, gardens, and forts descending toward the water. By the time Heine's view was published, Macao's commercial standing had changed substantially. Hong Kong, occupied by Britain in 1841 and rapidly developed as a free port, drew away much of the foreign trade that had once passed through Macao. Heine's print records the older Portuguese city in this altered commercial landscape: still picturesque, densely built, and socially important as a resort and residence for foreign merchants connected with Canton, but no longer the dominant European entrepôt on the China coast. Seen from Penha Hill, Heine's Macao appears as a harbour city where Portuguese civic and religious landmarks, Chinese geography, and nineteenth-century treaty-port commerce meet in a single prospect. Wilhelm Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant-folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year a second volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, among the best lithographers in the United States at that time. Bennett, p.53; McGrath American Color Plate Books 123.
A Testament

A Testament by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
A Testament
Author
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Horizon Press, 1957. First Edition. Half Morocco over Cloth. Fine/Fine (dust jacket is bound in the center of the book). 4to. 30 by 23 cm. 256 pp. Richly illustrated with photos and drawings. With art binding, decorated with a gilt-lined geometric design capturing the spirit of Wright. Clean and tight -- a spectacular copy.
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Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri by Denig, Edwin Thompson

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Seller: Argonaut Book Shop
Title
Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri
Author
Denig, Edwin Thompson
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1930 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First separate printing of this extract from the forty-sixth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Edited by J. N. B. Hewitt. Quarto. 377-628pp. 7 plates showing 19 illustrations, 6 text figures. Original printed wrappers. Lower edge of front wrapper slightly chipped, else a very fine copy, uncut. Quite scarce, especially in this condition. A full, complete study of the Assiniboine tribe, their rituals, history, geography, medicine, government, and all other aspects of their lives and culture. The Assiniboine Indian tribe played a great role in the shaping of north-eastern Montana as well as being a fundamental tool in the growth of the early fur industry. Includes a bibliography by Hewitt of the tribes discussed in the report..
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The Cavalier Offers Comfort, Refinement, Hospitality

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The Cavalier Offers Comfort, Refinement, Hospitality
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description
(Virginia Beach, VA: The hotel [Thomsen-Ellis Co., printers, Baltimore & New York]), 1925. 4to. (25) pp. Illustrated, plates, 3-page folding panorama of the hotel and its beach club. Original illustrated marbled wrappers, tied; tour company stamp on front wrapper and endpaper, else very good. First edition (?). Elaborate promotional, featuring exterior and interior hotel views and describing amenities and activities, among them golf on the hotel's own course, duck hunting, horseback riding, fox hunting, and other extravagances to be enjoyed on a large, seaside estate. Cover title: The Cavalier, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Not in Haynes. Unrecorded on OCLC.
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GEORGE WINTZ PRESENTS RIO RITA by Wintz, G.

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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY
Title
GEORGE WINTZ PRESENTS RIO RITA
Author
Wintz, G.
Seller
THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
GEORGE WINTZ PRESENTS RIO RITA, N.Y., ca.1925, a vg copy folded once. 10 pages with photos of the cast in various poses and with a wonderful full color cover illustration of a bare-breasted senorita, setting the tone for this risque production of the twenties. Music and Lyric by Tierney & McCarthy; Book by Guy Bolton & Fred Thompson.
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Pioniere im Osten: Afrikanisches Heldentum. Mit 8 Bildern von Fritz Wittlinger sowie 11 Leisten und 2 Vignetten von Elisabeth Mannsfeld. by Ade, Hans Christoph und Arnold Hillen Ziegfeld.

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Title
Pioniere im Osten: Afrikanisches Heldentum. Mit 8 Bildern von Fritz Wittlinger sowie 11 Leisten und 2 Vignetten von Elisabeth Mannsfeld.
Author
Ade, Hans Christoph und Arnold Hillen Ziegfeld.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Stuttgart, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (1923). Octavo, white illus. cloth (hardcover), 261 pp. Near-Fine.
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Blink by Gladwell, Malcolm

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Title
Blink
Author
Gladwell, Malcolm
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780316010665
Condition
Very Good
Description
Back Bay Books, 2005. Very Good. Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink. New York: Back Bay Books, 2005. 296pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed.

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