Jet Age Books

06/28/2025

We are so excited to present our newest book, Andrew Lichtenstein’s THIS SHORT LIFE. Andrew focuses on 12 ordinary people with extraordinary stories. His photographs and their oral histories together make a body of work essential to understanding this fraught American moment.

This Short Life collects the oral testimonies of twelve ordinary Americans fighting to make America a better country during the height of the Trump era. Their personal struggles and their dreams of a different society are accompanied by Andrew Lichtenstein’s photographs, documenting a nation at a ...

01/30/2024

In the old days, New Yorkers would have “rent parties” and the music would float across the rooftops. As a version of that, was so happy to revive the gumbo party a month ago and see so many of you. As another version of that, I’m launching an online print sale! All black and white prints are printed by me in the darkroom on fiber paper, and I’m making it a sale on my book if you want to make it a bundle, and also … a free copy of the Chinese American Family Photo Album zine with any purchase! But wait … there’s more … if you already bought my book, the print bundle discount is retroactive! Just drop me a note and I’ll send you a code 🙂

Alan Chin books and photographs for sale.

09/07/2023

NY friends! Come by this Friday Sept. 8, 8-11 PM to the Chinatown Night Market @ Forsyth Plaza (Forsyth & Canal at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge on the Manhattan side). We will be selling books again 📚 but it’s also a foodie event with amazing vendors, so don’t eat before you come 🙂 see: https://www.thinkchinatown.org/nightmarket

09/03/2023

NY friends! Come by thus Friday Sept. 8 8-11 PM to the Chinatown Night Market @ Forsyth Plaza (Forsyth & Canal at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge on the Manhattan side). We will be selling books 📚 but it’s also a foodie event with amazing vendors, so don’t eat before you come :)

08/10/2023

Come on by tomorrow night: Friday 8/11, 8-11 PM, to ‘s Chinatown Night Market! will be selling books and invites y’all to come enjoy a fabulous summer evening — see you there! Plaza, Forsyth and Canal Streets at the foot of the Manhattan side of the Manhattan Bridge, Chinatown, New York.

Join Think!Chinatown for the third year of our summer series of food, art & music at the iconic gateway of the Manhattan Bridge. This open-air cultural festival features Chinatown-focused programming alongside local art & food vendors.

08/09/2023

Hi everybody! Jet Age Books will be at ThinkChinatown’s Night Market, this 8/11 FRIDAY 8-11 PM @ Forsyth Plaza (Forsyth & Canal St)! Photo books, plus used books, and a good time will be had by all!! See you there 🙂
https://www.thinkchinatown.org/nightmarket

06/21/2023

Summer Book sale ! Use discount code IHEARTBOOKS for 15% off!

Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum — Sarah Stacke Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum — Sarah Stacke

04/18/2022

Please see article about how we re-discovered Rian Dundon's CHANGSHA!

When photographer Rian Dundon went to China in 2005, he couldn't speak the language and he was thrust into an unfamiliar place. As he got to know people, he began making the pictures in this book that gives a glimpse of a mostly unknown part of China.

02/12/2022

Gather round the fire, I’m going to tell you a photography book ghost story: Once upon a time, a young American photographer named moved to China. It was a more optimistic and open time than today. Rian didn’t have a lot of money so he didn’t live the fancy expatriate lifestyle in Beijing or Shanghai; he taught English in Changsha, a large city in the interior. He stayed for six years and made an extraordinary body of work documenting ordinary life that was published in the book CHANGSHA in 2012. But the publisher went bankrupt for reasons beyond Rian’s control. The vast majority of the books never reached the open market, and …. well … not disappeared, exactly …. but by this time Rian was living first in the San Francisco Bay Area and then later, Portland, Oregon. He went to graduate school, and started a family. After many conversations that went nowhere (without funding) about arrangements for the books, Rian had given up all hope. It had been years since he’d had any contact. Had they been destroyed? Shredded? Lost? Abandoned? Where were the books? A few copies were passed from hand to hand quietly with voices in hushed tones. Had they ever even really existed?!? But slowly a thought began forming in my mind. What if … we could help Rian find and rescue those books? I had visions of wading through sewers with flashlights in hand, of knocking on doors in the dead of night with search warrants, of dabbling with the occult, forensic science, and untangling confusing clues and false leads. But in the end…we found the books still sealed on their original shipping pallet, deep in a basement in the rural south of France! They hadn’t been disturbed in a decade! No rubber truncheons, fingerprinting, or DNA analysis had been needed. Just some bureaucratic global Covid pandemic era wrangling with shipping companies and their delays. (And, off the record, profuse burning of incense and incantations uttered under the full moon…)

So, at last, we are proud to be offering Rian Dundon’s original CHANGSHA, no longer a long-lost cult classic, but for the FIRST TIME in general distribution! BUY from: https://jetagebooks.net/portfolio/changsha-rian-dundon