Kika Tehodoki Shimin Tokuhon [Citizenship Reader: A Guide to Naturalization]

San Francisco: Nichibei Shimbun, 1953. Octavo, 8 x 5.5", grey stapled wrappers with brown titles in Japanese to front cover, [4], 47, [3] pp. "A citizenship pamphlet to assist the Issei to pass their naturalization examination" ("A Buried Past," 1447), published by a Japanese American newspaper in San Francisco. The book was published in response to the abolition of Asian exclusion laws in the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which made Issei eligible for citizenship for the first time. UC Berkeley only in OCLC; we locate another copy at UCLA. Rusting to staples, offsetting to covers, 1.5 inch tear to wrappers at upper spine. Item #12552

Price: $1,500.00