Search Results: Chinese American from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

New York: Avenel Books, 1963. Hardcover. xi, 140p., sketch illustrations (of sites in China), an inexpensive reprint of the Crown/Crowell first issue. Hardbound in 8x5.5 inch plastikoid blue boards and enclosed in the dust jacket. This copy has been used, find mild foodstain to fore edge, holograph recipe inscribed (neatly) on front pastedown, asterisk to index (for a variety of soup), a sound if slightly homely volume, with dust jacket bearing a couple of short tears, one of which reinforced verso with clear tape. A fair to good copy. Per dust jacket flap text: "the greatest classical recipes of China, many of them for the first time in English. All five major 'schools' of Chinese cooking are represented." Author Yu Wen Mei is daughter to Yu Lin Chuan, one of Old China's most renowned restauranteurs; she is translator while Adams is "a gourmet's gourmet" who has done some adapting to the American kitchen.

[San Francisco]: the Bank, 1965. Calendar. 5x6 inch card with images of Chinese art from the Avery Brundage collection, containing fourteen loose leaves, one for each month plus two listing holidays, much text in Chinese, but descriptions of the artwork in English, very good.

San Bruno, CA: Zi lian chubanshe, 2001. 128p., glossy wraps, text in Chinese. Lunar calendar for the year, with numerous ads for Chinese-American Buddhist religious and social organizations and articles about Buddhism. A charm printed on red paper is laid in. Inside the front cover is a feature titled "Yesu ye laile!" (Jesus also came!) with photos where Jesus can allegedly be seen in diffracted sunlight. Highights the ecumenical character of Chinese folk religion.

San Mateo: Asian American Curriculum Project, Inc, 2003. Staplebound. 58p., staplebound, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Sorted into categories including elementary, intermediate, literature, language, and reference, among others. Lists works on the Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Hmong, Iu Mien, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, South Asian, and Vietnamese diasporic people. The Asian American Curriculum Project was founded in 1969 by teachers in San Mateo, and originally was known as the Japanese American Curriculum Project.

n.p.: the Council 南加州中文學校聯合會, 2010. Paperback. 141p., paperback, 8.5x11 inches, presentation inscription in Chinese on cover, occasional marginalia, handling wear. Text mostly in Chinese.

San Bruno, CA: Purple Lotus Society, 2009. Paperback. 136p., slender paperback, very good. Booklet containing a traditional Chinese calendar for the year and short essays on contemporary life from a Buddhist perspective, distributed by the Purple Lotus Temple.

Monrovia, CA: Tzu Chi, 1994. Paperback. 73p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Text in both English and Chinese. Booklet advertising the work of the Buddhist charitable organization, with map showing its offices around the US.

n.p.: Tzu Chi USA, 1996. 52p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good but for rubberstamp of the organization's Honolulu office on front cover. Text in both English and Chinese. Brochure advertising the work of the Buddhist charitable organization.

Berkeley: Frog, 2003. Paperback. 111p., foreword by Phoebe Gloeckner, prologue, introduction, epilogue, reading questions, recommended reading, b&w comic-strip illustrations throughout, very good first edition in original pictorial wraps. Edu-comix set in Fremont California as students react to 9/11.

[Berkeley]: the Coalition; Bay Area branch, 1997. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch leaflet, printed both sides in Chinese, from the Bay Area chapter of the October 22 Coalition (an RCP affiliate). Very good. Text discusses instances of police violence and asks the reader to attend a demonstration at Mission and 24th in San Francisco, wearing black, as part of a nationwide chain of protests. Gives contact info for the national Coalition office, with solicitation for donations.

Berkeley: AAPA, 1970. Newspaper. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, some notes in pencil and pen on front cover. Slogan in Chinese at top means "Return power to the people." Includes an early piece on the International Hotel, a brief item on a pilgrimage to Manzanar, a page on Asian legal defense with tips if stopped by the police, and more.

Berkeley: Asian American Political Alliance, 1969. Newspaper. 4p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned, otherwise very good. Single issue of the radical paper, including photos of Asian American student demonstrators.

[Vancouver]: n.p., 1977. Broadside. single sheet, poem printed landscape, 8.5x10 inches, very good. Signed by Wah. Only two copies found in OCLC as of June 2022. Wah is a poet of mixed Chinese and Canadian heritage who was appointed Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2011, and is the author of more than 17 chapbooks and poetry collections.

n.p.: Self-published by the author, 2000. Staplebound. [14p.], staplebound zine, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Collection of mini-comics from an Asian American comic book artist from Hawai'i. No copies found in the OCLC as of July 2022.

Syracuse: Light Work / Robert B. Menschel Photography Center, Syracuse University, 2000. Paperback. 32p., coated paperstock throughout, with captioned b&w and color reproductions, a longish vita, and 2p. of information by Jeffrey Hoone, director of Light Works. Softcover, 10x9 inch photographic cardstock wraps, a very good copy. Chong's photos on themes related to his Chinese-Jamaican background.

Baltimore: The Sunpapers, [195-]. 11x18 inch black and white print, very good mounted on a slightly worn board, title penned at lower left, the photographer's rubberstamp on the reverse. Photo depicts a boy wearing a traditional Chinese outfit but sitting in such a way that his western shoes and socks are visible. Richard Stacks was a renowned photographer for the Baltimore Sun.

San Francisco: Red Cross, Golden Gate Chapter, 1992. [15p.], booklet bound in rustic method with stick and twine; very good. Bilingual text. A celebration of the program linking newcomer youth with elders in the community.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. Hardcover. 240p., first edition, very good condition in like dust jacket; signed by Wong on the title page.

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972. Paperback. 48p., very good in upright 10x5.5 inch wraps. Poetry.

New York: The Feminist Press, 1996. Hardcover. 232p., inscribed by the poet, first edition, very good condition in like dust jacket. Memoir. Cross-cultural memoir.