New York: Delta, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Second mystery in this series featuring an unlikely sleuth - "a curmedgeonly LA gardener, Hiroshima survivor and inveterate gambler." From the time she was a little girl, his daughter was 'gasa-gasa' -never sitting still, always on the go. Now a continent separates them, but when she calls him asking for help, he heads off to New York. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385-337604.

Pasadena, CA: Prospect Park Books, (2013). SIGNED first edition - The fifth novel in this series featuring an unlikely sleuth - "an aging, widowed, not-exactly-communicative gardener from Altadena, California" issued as a trade paperback original. Set in the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California. SIGNED on the title page. 237 pp. ISBN: 978-1938849022.

New York: Delta, (2005). SIGNED - Second mystery in this series featuring an unlikely sleuth - "a curmedgeonly LA gardener, Hiroshima survivor and inveterate gambler." From the time she was a little girl, his daughter was 'gasa-gasa' -never sitting still, always on the go. Now a continent separates them, but when she calls him asking for help, he heads off to New York. SIGNED on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-385-337604.

New York: Delta / Bantam, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original, and introducing Mas Arai, a Japanese-American gardener as the unlikely protagonist in this mystery with its roots in Hiroshima. 287 pp.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in this award winning series featuring an unlikely sleuth - "an aging, widowed, not-exactly-communicative gardener from Altadena, California." In this book, Mas's best friend and fellow Hiroshima survivor is getting married - until an ancient Japanese doll collection goes missing. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 978-0312545550.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel in this award winning series featuring an unlikely sleuth - "an aging, widowed, not-exactly-communicative gardener from Altadena, California." In this book, Mas's best friend and fellow Hiroshima survivor is getting married - until an ancient Japanese doll collection goes missing. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 978-0312545550.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. SIGNED - His third collection - poems which honor his Japanese-American ancestors in the Hawaiian landscape, poems which celebrate the marginalized but heroic figures of the recent past. SIGNED on the title page by Hongo and also SIGNED on the copyright page by Chip Kidd who designed the cover. Notes. 102 pp. ISBN: 9780375712043.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988. SIGNED - Trade paperback. SIGNED on the title page by the author. A very nice copy of this Hawaiian-born Japanese American's first collection of poetry - "songs of grief and songs of praise" about the dilemma of the postwar Japanese living in California and Hawaii. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-8195-11048.

New York: Kensington, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women, from an arranged marriage which sent the matriach, Sava, to America through their internment during World War II. Glossary. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-04558.

New York: Kensington, (2003.). First edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women, from an arranged marriage which sent the matriach, Sava, to America through their internment during World War II. Glossary. 329 pp.

New York: Kensington, (2004.). SIGNED - First novel by the author of the classic "Farewell to Manzanar." The story of three generations of Japanese women, from an arranged marriage which sent the matriach, Sava, to America through their internment during World War II. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Best Wishes." Glossary. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-04566.

New York: Kensington, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women - from an arranged marriage, which sent the matriach, Sava, to America, through their internment during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. Glossary. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-04558.

New York: Kensington, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women - from an arranged marriage, which sent the matriach, Sava, to America, through their internment during World War II. INSCRIBED on the title page. Glossary. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-04558.

DeWitt, NY: New Persephone Press in conjunction with the Japanese American Citizens League, Imperial Valley, California. (2006). SIGNED first edition - "A collection of oral histories of five articulate Japanese-American women whose young lives had been interrupted by Executive Order 9066, a presidential order on 2/29/42, which put 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wires during World War II" - for these women in Poston, Arizona. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Notes, selected works and resources. Oblong format. 90 pp. ISBN: 0-977976904.

Waldport, Oregon: House By the Sea Publishing Co., (1979.). One of the first Japanese-American novels to portray the struggle for justice and freedom from within the confines of America's concentration camps by those who refused to cooperate with the internment of 120,000 of their fellow Americans during World War II. The author was seven years old when he was sent to a camp with his family. Tule Lake was unique among these camps in that it housed those who were deemed 'disloyal' by the US government. 328 pp. plus glossary.

New York: Anchor Books. (1995). SIGNED first edition - Author's second book of poetry consisting of a powerful juxtaposition of Japanese American history with explorations of his sexual obsessions, love and hatred. SIGNED on the title page. 105 pp plus glossary. ISBN: 0-385-47461X.

New York: Anchor Books - Doubleday, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mura discusses his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which interned both his parents during World War II, simply because of their race and how being a 'model minority' has resulted in a loss of heritage and wholeness for generations of Japanese Americans. . . he suggests that the shame of internment affected his sense of sexuality, leading him to face troubling questions about desire and race: an interracial marriage, compulsive adultery, and an addiction to pornography which equates beauty with whiteness - but finally, this is an account of the triumph of love - his wife, his children, his family, SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471831.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author of Japanese and Polish ancestry who grew up in Tokyo and Los Angeles. The story centers on two high school women's basketball stars, one Japanese American, one African American, who are both intense rivals and friends. When their parents move in together, their relationship becomes even more complicated. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-312-181426.

New York: St Martin's / Stonewall Inn, (1998.). SIGNED - The first novel by this author of Japanese and Polish ancestry who grew up in Tokyo and Los Angeles. The story centers on two high school women's basketball stars, one Japanese American, one African American, who are both intense rivals and friends. When their parents move in together, their relationship becomes even more complicated. SIGNED on the title page. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-312-181426.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award-winning author, the story of a Japanese-Canadian woman who discovers, after the death of her father, that she has a half sister in Japan, and that he might even have been a kamikaze pilot during World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-676-975119.

New York: Norton, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Very highly praised first novel,winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel and nominated for the Canadian Governor's General Award. To quote from just a couple of the comments made about this book, Pico Iyer described it as 'Spooky, atmospheric, and unveiling its secrets with an uncanny assurance.. [it]becomes impossible to put down.' and Shani Mootoo calls it 'full of prickly darkness, made magnetic by the author's unabashedly wry and and subversive sense of humor.' Set in the 1970's, this is the story of how a double murder affects the Japanese community shaped by the dark shadow of the internment camps during World War II. ISBN: 0-393-046923.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1979). A memoir by this Japanese American woman originally published in 1952. In it she describes growing up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and what it was like to be "subjected to "relocation" during World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry--77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens--she and her family were uprooted from their home and imprisoned in a camp," Introduction by Frank Miyamoto. xvii, 238 pp. ISBN: 0-295956887.

Hawaii University of Hawai'i press (1998). First edition - The author's own story, of his life and work as one of the "movers and shakers" behind Hawaii's transformation from an isolated, agriculture-based territory to a highly diverse, competitive modern community . Appendices, Chronology, and index, 12 pages of white and photographs. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-8248-20231.

New York: Atheneum, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1936 in East Oakland, California, this is the second book about Rinko and her family (the first was the award-winning "A Jar of Dreams.") When Rinko is asked to spend the last month of summer helping Mrs. Hata, a recently widowed friend of her mother's, she does not want to go - but while there, she has a series of 'good' and 'bad' things happen and discovers people are not always what they seem., and the real strength of Mrs Hata. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-689502907.

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 1992 Olympic gold medal winner in figure skating tells of her early life in California, the importance of her Japanese heritage, and how she fell in love with the ice. SIGNED on a special bookplate on the front endpaper with a small drawing of a flower. Photographs and illustrations by Doug Keith. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-87833-9965.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this highly praised young Hawaiian writer, set on the big island of Hawai'i. 277 pp. Small square format. ISBN: 0-374-290202.