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[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Personal and Academic Life of a Young Japanese American Woman and Her Family in Japan and California]

[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Personal and Academic Life of a Young Japanese American Woman and Her Family in Japan and California] by [Japanese Americana]: [Photography]

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Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC
Title
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Personal and Academic Life of a Young Japanese American Woman and Her Family in Japan and California]
Author
[Japanese Americana]: [Photography]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Good.
Description
[Various locations, mostly Japan, but also California and Hawaii, 1947. Good.. [24] leaves, illustrated with 206 mounted black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs of varying sizes, most with manuscript captions in Japanese. Quarto. Contemporary maroon photograph album with floral design and "Photo Album" printed on front cover. Spine chipped, both boards and spine detached, minor rubbing to boards. Photographs generall well preserved. A well-annotated vernacular photograph album documenting the life, schooling, and early work career of a young woman in the Hamamoto family (the only daughter and here referred to simply as "Hamomoto-san") along with significant images of her family in California in the 1930s. Hamamoto's family seem to have been early immigrants to the Los Angeles area, particularly Pacoima, where they ran a meat market and grocery store in 1934. Seven photographs in a two-page spread show the Hamomotos in Pacoima, including four of their store and three of the Hamomotos posed at Pacoima Elementary School; one of the latter images shows the compiler posed with three other students of different ethnicities at the school. The present album includes numerous photos of Hamomoto, along with portratis of her parents, brothers, various friends, and so forth. Hamamoto's family apparently relocated back to Japan in the mid-1930s, stopping in Hawaii along the way, where a photo of the family is captioned, "On the way back to Japan." She evidently stayed in Japan thereafter, likely so that she could attend school in Hiroshima. Once Hamamoto resettled in Hiroshima, she enrolled in a Buddhist-affiliated private high school for girls, Shintoku Higher School for Girls, where she graduated in 1942. Much of the latter half of the present album contains school class photos, groups shots of students engaging in various ceremonies and school projects, individual portraits of her classmates (with many identified), and other scenes at school and at reunions afterwards. Hamomoto's school was later destroyed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, killing almost 400 students and teachers. The present album also documents at least one other back-and-forth move between the United States and Japan within the Hamomoto family. In 1940, the compiler's brother Hiroshi went to the U.S. and returned in 1941 where he entered a major institute focusing on broadcast technology. Following high school, Hamomoto worked for Mitsui Bussan for a while; one image here is captioned, "During the time I worked at Mitsui & Co., 1944. Taken on the roof." Mitsui Bussan is still a major trading company in Japan that deals in commodities. Hamomoto may have also worked for American authorities during the Occupation of Japan following World War II, evidenced by a couple of images here showing her posed outside an R.T.O. office in 1947. The American military established the Railroad Transportation Office in occupied Japan in order to manage military and personnel travel on the Japanese railway system; these offices were set up at several major Japanese train stations. This album is a nice example of a primary source reflecting the fluid interplay within the Japanese and Japanese-American communities with regard to life in Japan versus the United States before World War II. There were often tensions within Japanese and Japanese-American families related to which country provided better opportunities for their families, especially the younger generations. The present album is one example when the family apparently decided against life in America and returned to the mother country, specifically to Hiroshima. The compiler of the album survived the war, however, and may have even worked with American occupiers, likely due to some facility with the English language, first learned long before, during childhood in California.
MICHAEL STROGOFF, a Courier of the Czar

MICHAEL STROGOFF, a Courier of the Czar by VERNE, Jules

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Title
MICHAEL STROGOFF, a Courier of the Czar
Author
VERNE, Jules
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1927. VERNE, Jules. MICHAEL STROGOFF, a Courier of the Czar. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1927). First edition thus, with Wyeth's illustrations: a color-illustrated title-page, nine color plates, and color-illustrated endpapers. (viii), 397 pp. Octavo, black cloth with a large color-illustrated label on upper board and gilt-stamped title on spine. Clean and fresh, it is a very good copy, in an illustrated dust-jacket that has small chips at heel and crown and shows slight edgewear. This is one of the Scribner series of illustrated classics for younger readers.
Briggs' Transfers - WITH - Price List ....

Briggs' Transfers - WITH - Price List .... by Briggs Transfer Company

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Briggs' Transfers - WITH - Price List ....
Author
Briggs Transfer Company
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Manchester, UK: Briggs Company, 1891(?). First thus.. Original publisher's gilt stamped cloth.. Very good.. Large 4to, I - Conventional - [2], [3] - 52 pp; II - ... Floral - [2], 90 pp; III - ...Braiding - 44 pp; IV - ....Initials - 12 pp; V - ... Ecclesiastical Designs - [2], 3 - 15, [1 - advert] pp.. Hundreds of designs for embroidery and crewel work issued by the Briggs Company. The designs in this publication are grouped according to theme and represent "transfers" to utilize the company's designs, silk thread, yarns, and transfer technology. What is offered in this volume are not the designs themselves but rather a trade catalog of the company's designs from which to order desired patterns. Two processes existed to transfer design patterns to cloth: traditional pricking and pouncing the pattern on to the cloth and the Briggs updated version whereby a design is traced with a stylus (utilizing the purchased pattern) with an underlay of colored waxed paper (purchased) thus transferring the pattern to the cloth. This trade catalog acts as a design inventory supplied from the firm. The format and printing of this catalog suggest a limited distribution to retailers. The designs are elaborate impressive creations that resonate throughout the industrial arts of the late nineteenth century.
With Nature's Children: Emma B. Freeman (1880-1928) - Camera and Brush

With Nature's Children: Emma B. Freeman (1880-1928) - Camera and Brush by Palmquist, Peter E.

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With Nature's Children: Emma B. Freeman (1880-1928) - Camera and Brush
Author
Palmquist, Peter E.
Seller
Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Interface California Corp., Eureka, (1976). Good. 9 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 134 pages, wrappers, sunning to spine and wear covers,, Inscribed by the author: "Come see the wonder and the mystery that haunt the heart of things", For Robert A.Weinstein, Peter E. Palmquist, 28 Mar 1977, #30/50", With a modern print from a Freeman negative pasted to the dedication page.
The Raven and the Nightingale (Association Copy from the Personal Collection of Otto Penzler)

The Raven and the Nightingale (Association Copy from the Personal Collection of Otto Penzler) by Dobson, Joanne

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Title
The Raven and the Nightingale (Association Copy from the Personal Collection of Otto Penzler)
Author
Dobson, Joanne
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780385493390
Condition
As New
Description
New York: Doubleday, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo., 273pp. Beautiful unread First Printing. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally brilliant unclipped wrapper, ($21.95), is fresh and bright with no tears, creases or chipping. Protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Further, a terrific Association inscription by the author to legendary founder of the The Mysterious Press, Otto Penzler, on the title page, "For Otto, with best wishes and many thanks. Joanne". A stunning collectable copy from Mr. Penzler's personal collection.
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The Wonder Sandwich Book. The Old-fashioned Sandwich Steps Out by Proctor, Alice Adams

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The Wonder Sandwich Book. The Old-fashioned Sandwich Steps Out
Author
Proctor, Alice Adams
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
S. l. (New York): Continental Baking Co., Inc., 1928. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 x 5 1/4; pp. 1-12; stapled, lithographed wraps; illustrated with drawings; small, scattered spots of foxing to wraps; small, closed cuts to tips of spine; in about very good condition. Published in the same year sliced bread was invented in Missouri, the booklet was written by spokesperson and author for Hostess products Alice Adams Proctor. She was, in fact, a fictitious person, once described as "sort of like Betty Crocker but without a portrait." Chapters included recipes for luncheon sandwiches, fancy party sandwiches, sandwich plate dinners, etc.
Lithographs from the Tamarind Workshop

Lithographs from the Tamarind Workshop by Wight, Frederick S. (Text)

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Title
Lithographs from the Tamarind Workshop
Author
Wight, Frederick S. (Text)
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine
Description
Los Angeles: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 31 pp. Illustrated in black and white. A circulating exhibition organized by the UCLA Art Galleries 1962-63.
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Tilbury Nogo. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood. by Whyte-Melville, G. J. [Wood, Stanley L., illus.]

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Tilbury Nogo. Illustrated by Stanley L. Wood.
Author
Whyte-Melville, G. J. [Wood, Stanley L., illus.]
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. [ca. 1898.] Reprint of the 1858 edition. Octavo, gilt-stamped blue cloth, uncut, viii, 352 pp. Plates. Very Good; endpapers are mildly foxed.
The rise of modern science. External or internal factors?

The rise of modern science. External or internal factors? by BASALLA, George.

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Title
The rise of modern science. External or internal factors?
Author
BASALLA, George.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Lexington, MA:: D.C. Heath & Co., (1968)., 1968. 8vo. xvi, 109 pp. Printed wrappers; cover damaged. Very good.

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