New York: Kodansha USA, (2013) dj. Hardcover - The first book published by a Japanese kyudo master in English. From the dust jacket: "Kyudo-the Way of the Bow-is the oldest of Japan's traditional martial arts and the one most closely associated with bushido, the Way of the Warrior. After the Second World War Eugen Herrigel introduced the concept of kyudo to the West in his classic Zen in the Art of Japanese Archery. [In this book] Hideharu Onuma and his American co-authors, Dan and Jackie DeProspero, explain in detail both the spiritual and practical aspects of kyudo. Written with both novices and advanced students in mind, the book is presented in simple, straightforward language and features hundreds of detailed illustrations, supplemented by rare photographs of Master Onuma, clearly demonstrating the fundamental techniques and daily practice of this form of 'standing Zen.' Including chapters on equipment and kyudojo construction, making it the most comprehensive reference work on the subject available." Slightly oversized format, illustrated throughout, including some reproductions of historical Japanese paintings in full color. Includes an appendix of student-teacher conversations, a brief bibliography and index. xiii, 160 pp. ISBN: 978-1568365114.

New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is an essential reference for all those interested in Japanese and East Asian art. with bw frontis. "The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Japanese artists yet published. The pertinent facts relating to approximately 3000 painters, printmakers, sculptors, potters, and lacquerware makers born before 1900 are concisely listed, including their art names (in kanji and romanized), brief biographies, descriptions of their work, collections in which their work is included, and books and periodicals in which their work is discussed or illustrated. [Includes] extensive appendices [on the art periods of Japan, Korea and China, the provinces of Japan and more], a glossary, bibliography and complete indices, including artists by alternate names and Japanese characters." Foreword by John M. Rosenfeld. Frontispiece. xi, 299 pp. ISBN: 0-834801132..

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A charming story based on Yang's own experience of coming to America from Taiwan at age seven in the late 1960s. "The bright gouache pictures of San Francisco draw strongly on Chinese and American traditions, with geometric cutout shapes depicting people crowding the streets, at school, and at the workplace - -all from the child's viewpoint. . .The tension is in the threat of deportation as the family waits for green cards that will allow everyone to live freely in the U.S. Mama and Papa work, but they hide from the officials who come to check their papers; Hannah's friend's family is sent back to Taiwan. The struggle with documentation and the celebration when the green cards finally arrive in the mail is a drama many immigrant families will recognize." (ALA) SIGNED and dated on the title page, with a small drawing. Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-763622230.

New York: Viking, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by one of China's most innovative writers, and his first book to appear in English, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt (with a note that, at the request of the author, this is based on the 1988 Tapei Hongfan Chinese edition which restored some of the deletions made in the 1987 Mainland Chinese edition). Mo Yan is a pseudonymic phrase meaning 'Don't speak.' Over more than 30 years, Mo Yan has been writing brutally vibrant stories about rural life in China that flout official Party ideology and celebrate individualism over conformity. He also flouts literary conformity, spiking his earthy realism with fantasy, hallucination and metafiction. The story in this book revolves around three generations of the Shandong family between 1923 and 1976 as the narrator tells the story of his family's struggles, first as distillery owners making sorghum wine and then as resistance fighters during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The first parts were the basis of the award-winning 1987 film of the same name. In 2012 Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. 359 pp. ISBN: 0-670844020.

New York: First Second / Roaring Brook Press, (2020). First edition - Graphic novelist Gene Yang "doesnt get sports. As a kid, every basketball game he played ended in pain, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making.. . Yang decided to follow alumnus Coach Lou and a diverse squad of young men on their quest for the ultimate accolade. As the author juggled raising a family, teaching, and writing, the Dragons struggled to take home the championship . .The narrative combines the blood-sweat-and-tears drama of a sport's story with elements of gonzo journalism, narrative nonfiction, and action comics, juxtaposing play-by-play accounts of games with explorations of players' lives and the broader history of the sport. As Yang taps into subjects as varied as assimilation and discrimination in America, internecine violence in India, and China's century-long quest for athletic recognition, readers learn how this low-cost, indoor game leveled racial, gender, and international boundaries to attain global prominence." Illustrations in full color by Lark Pien. Notes, bibliography. An uncommon advance issue. 446 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1997). "Spanning the years from 1950 to 1980, Rae Yang's story is evocative, complex, and told with striking candor. It is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness and of her eventual disillusionment with the Maoist revolution." Photographs. xi, 285 pp. ISBN: 0-520215982.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, a finalist for the National Book Award - a slim volume which is "a tour de force of economy and precision, that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. [It] traces their lives, from their arduous journey by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives, to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women. . and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war" as they were rounded up and sent to detention camps. 129 pp. ISBN: 978-0307700001.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2017) dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel, nominated for the National Book Award, 2017 and winner of the PEN/Bellweather Prize. "One morning, Deming Guos mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salonand never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all hes ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind. Told from the perspective of both Daniel and Polly, Kos novel gives us one of fictions most singular mothers. Loving and selfish, determined and frightened, Polly is forced to make one heartwrenching choice after another. Set in New York and China, 'The Leavers' is a vivid examination of borders and belonging." The jacket is the first state dust jacket with the Ann Patchett blurb on the front cover: "if you want to understand a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, 'The Leavers' is required reading. Laid in is a BOMC bookplate with a quote from one of the judges who selected this book, 335 pp. ISBN: 978-1616206888.

Beijing, China: Central Party Literature Publishing House, {1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The English language edition of a massive pictorial biography of the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (after the death of Mao Zedong) from 1978 to 1989, and who is considered the architect of modern China (wiki). Although he instituted many reforms,he was also responsible for the one child movement and in 1989, the year after this book was published, he ordered the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests. Illustrated with over 500 photos, in both black and white and full color. The postscript notes that this is the first such work for both Chinese and English readers and that it took 18 months to compile. It goes on to note that it has "some invaluable historical shots of Deng Xiaoping from the archives of the state and the Army, from the collections of Deng's comrades-in-arms and his relatives and from historical documentaries. For instance, the earliest photo in this book was taken 66 years ago in March 1921 in France. The photo of the site of the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai, where Deng once worked in the days of the White terror has been retained to this day because a staff member who left there for Yan'an hid it in his cotton-padded coat and passed safely through the enemy-occupied lands." Includes a "Certificate of Authenticity" tipped onto the last blank page at the rear of the book, indicating it is #09411 in a limited edition of 10,000. In addition, this is an interesting association copy INSCRIBED on the title page by his daughter, the artist Deng Lin and dated in October 1988, a date which co-incides with a solo exhibition of her work at the Hefner Gallery in New York. Laid in is a fine copy of scarce 32 page illustrated catalogue for that exhibition entitled "Brushworks." Bound in the original silver cloth, lettered in gilt in a silver dustjacket with a photograph of Deng Xiaoping on the front cover. 301 pp.

New York: Free Press / Simon & Schuster, (2008). First edition - The author's first novel, winner of the Man-Booker award (only the fourth Indian writer to receive this), and basis of the 1921 film of the same name. "Halwai, the narrator, is a modern Indian hero. In a nation proudly shedding a history of poverty and underdevelopment, he represents, as he himself says, tomorrow but it's a more complicated story than Balram initially lets on. Before moving to Bangalore, he was a driver for the son of a feudal landlord. One rainy day in Delhi, he crushed the skull of his employer and stole a bag containing a large amount of money, capital that financed his Bangalore taxi business. That business ferrying technology workers to and from their jobs depends, in turn, on keeping the police happy with the occasional bribe. As a parable of the new India, then, his tale has a distinctly macabre twist. He is not only an entrepreneur but a roguish criminal with a remarkable capacity for self-justification, and the background against which he operates is not just a resurgent economy and nation but a landscape of corruption, inequality and poverty." Promotional material laid in. 276 pp.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel set during the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. In it, "she explores such concepts as loyalty to one's family and country, the place of language in culture, and the roles of race, racism and ethnicity in how we perceive ourselves and others and in doing so, she skillfully touches on questions at the very heart of politics, culture and global relations today. Loh narrates the book through the eyes of Claude Lim - a young man from a fine, upstanding Chinese family - who is undergoing a brutal interrogation at the hands of the Japanese. Claude, with his perfect English and seemingly assured future at Oxford, can't believe what's happening. To be mistaken for someone Chinese 'dirty,' 'crude' and 'superstitious' - is the worst insult he could endure, and yet here he is, undergoing torture for being the very thing he loathes." (Washington Post) SIGNED on the title page. 407 pp plus a 1 p bibliography. ISBN: 978-0393057928.

New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, (1998). First edition - A collection of short stories and personal memoirs -a compilation representing half a century of writing and activism - available in English for the first time. Translated, edited and introduced by Gita Krishnankutty. Foreword by Meena Alexander. "Antherjanam was an early feminist of Kerala, at the tip of India's subcontinent, at the beginning of the 20th century. Her family was supportive, encouraging her education and writing, but as a Brahmin woman she was confined to seclusion until her marriage, fortunately arranged to a man sympathetic to her pursuit of women's rights. Her stories offer clear-eyed and chilling testimony to the brutal oppression suffered by Indian women 'cast out' if they dared to stray from enforced subjugation. At the same time, they celebrate their resilience, resistance, and vitality of these individuals. This volume includes a selection of her fiction and memoir, which captures early moments in India's nationalist and feminist movements." Notes at the end of each selection, glossary, bibliography. Errata slip laid in. xxxii, 188 pp. ISBN: 1-558611886.

New York: Delacorte, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Japanese-American writer, an historical epic which opens in 1861 as Japan, after two centuries of isolation, has been forced to open its doors to the West, igniting a clash of cultures and generations. "As foreign ships threaten to rain destruction on the ShogunÕs castle in Edo, a small group of American missionaries has chosen this time to spread the word of their God. Among them, Emily Gibson, a woman seeking redemption from a tormented past, and Matthew Stark, a cold-eyed killer with one more death on his mind. Neither realizes that their future in Japan has already been foreseen. For a young nobleman, Lord Genji, has dreamt that his life will be saved by an outsider in the New Year. " 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-385336403.