Hawaii from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Tokyo: Bunseisha, 1935. First Edition. The deluxe issue of this record of the Japanese in Hawaii, bound in brilliant purple cloth and housed in a paper clamshell case and a wooden box. "A standard prewar history of the Japanese in Hawaii with sections on history, demography, print media, finance, commerce, agriculture, religion, education, and community organizations. Includes… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1905. First Edition. Very good. A late work summarizing Gulick's views on divergent evolution with what might today be called "contingency": "members of the same species, exposed to the same environment in isolated groups, will often arrive at divergent methods of dealing with the environment." He goes on to conclude that the assumption that… Read more about this item

Honolulu: Gojunenkan no Hawai Kaiko Kankokai, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Autobiography of an Issei journalist affiliated with the Nippu Jiji of Honolulu. Covers the years 1896 to 1953, it includes major socio-political events during the time period and the author's wartime internment."-A Buried Past II, 1756. "Historical essays on the Japanese community over the preceding… Read more about this item

Honolulu: Nippu Jiji Co, 1941. Trade paperback. Good. The fifteenth and final volume of this guide to American life and to Hawaii, followed by a directory of the Japanese American residents of Hawaii. This directory was published in February 1941, just over nine months before the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese air force. It includes a… Read more about this item

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. viii, 512, 21 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Includes reports of the British expeditions of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands (pp. 1 to 256); Egypt (pp. 257 to 346); Rodriguez Island (now Rodrigues; pp. 347 to 400); Kerguelen Island (Desolation Islands; pp. 401 to 480); and New Zealand (pp.… Read more about this item