Three publications together:

• Soyeda, J.[uichi] and T.[adao] Kamiya. A Survey of the Japanese Question in California 16 pp. Original wrappers. With tipped-in slip pasted to rear of front wrapper presenting the pamphlet with the compliments of the authors. San Francisco, August 6, 1913.
• Gulick, Sidney. The American Japanese Problem, A study of the Racial Relations of the East and the West. 349pp. Illustrated. Original decorative cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Scribner's, 1914.
• Boddy, E. Manchester. Japanese in America. 198pp. Illustrated. Original cloth. E. Manchester Boddy, 1921.

In the wake of the 1913 racist California Alien Land Law aimed at curtailing Japanese immigration, Soyeda and Kamiya, influential Japanese economists sent to San Francisco by the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce; Gulick, an American Professor teaching at Kyoto; and Boddy, a Los Angeles newspaper publisher, all diplomatically decried the anti-Japanese “race hatred” rampant on the west coast, though Gulick noted that even most Japanese statesman recognized that “immigration from Asia swamping the white man…and bringing wide economic disaster to Caucasian laborers and farmers is not…to be tolerated.” The Soyeda-Kamiya booklet is a particularly scarce imprint.