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2341 Hickory Drive
Concord, CA 94520
925-349-4400
Established1980 - Member ABAA
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James M.Dourgarian, Bookman, was established in 1980. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA). Like all ABAA members, we answer to a higher authority and follow a higher standard of ethics that guarantees a successful transaction for all our customers.
We buy and sell old books, vintage books, collectible books, rare books, first edition books, and related ephemera. We maintain several specialties. Among them are American fiction first editions from c.1900 to the present. Within that general field, we have heavy emphasis in John Steinbeck and Steinbeckiana. Thus, we buy and sell Steinbeck primary first editions in dust jackets, signed/limited editions, his appearances in anthologies, his periodical appearances, books and periodicals about Steinbeck, film and theatre memorabilia, bibliographies, and miscellaneous items.
We also specialize in these same categories for these authors -- Jack London, Wallace Stegner, and Stephen King. Other specialties include Western Americana, books on California and the West, Photography books, books on Japan, China, and the Orient, and Armed Services Editions. The latter are vintage paperbacks issued to American GIs from 1943 to 1947. They are comprised of mysteries, Westerns, science fiction and fantasy, mainstream fiction, historical novels, science, poetry, adventure stories, and more.
Within our field of modern first editions, we also sell related film memorabilia Thus, we sell film posters, lobby card sets, pressbooks, stills, scripts, etc. for films made from the works of authors we carry such as John Steinbeck, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stephen King, Edward Abbey, Anne Rice, and many others.
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| [Miscellaneous] Edward the Eighth. Farewell Speech of King Edward the Eighth Broadcast from Windsor Castle the Tenth Day of December MCMXXXVI, With the Instrument of Abdication & A Note by William Saroyan. San Francisco, Ransohoffs, 1938, first edition. This is one of 200 hardcover copies printed for Ransohoffs by the Grabhorn Press, colored wood engravings by Mallette Dean. Some wear to spine, else near fine. JD27296 |  $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Eisinger, Chester E. Fiction of the Forties. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1963, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes material on John Steinbeck, pages 4, 10, 48, 50-51, 100-101, 185, 331, 333, and 369, also includes studies of many other writers, including Wallace Stegner who has Signed his rear jacket cover photo, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good plus. JD28565 | $65.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Ellison, Harlan. On the Slab. Sherman Oaks, Harlan Ellison, 1981, first edition. 20 sheets, about 4,750 words for this short story that was published in Ellison's Angry Candy, photo-copies, printed on rectos only, the whole stapled with a photo-copied NOTE from the author detailing this typescript's history, Ellison dates the story's origin to 1976, he notes that part of the story was read on a Pacifica radio station in Los Angeles in 1980, the yet-to-be-completed original manuscript was auctioned to raise money for the radio station, Ellison's NOTE indicates that the story was completed in 1981, he says this "is the original manuscript of that completed story," although he goes on to say that he made changes based on the suggestions of fellow writer and friend William Kotzwinkle, he writes, "Though the author seldom revises, Mr. Kotzwinkle's notes contained much of merit, and the author has decided to do additional work on this story. A final rewritten version will be the one submitted for publication. But this is the version as it came fresh from the typewriter," the typescript is in a state as if it were being submitted for publication. Fine. JD33378 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Ellithorpe, Harold. A View of John Steinbeck. n.p., n.p., 1962, first edition, self wrappers. Softcover. Ellithorpe provides his view of Steinbeck after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, includes a list of his books and a bit about Steinbeck, two sheets folded to make eight pages, not recorded by Goldstone &n Payne, Morrow, or Holmes. Near fine. JD35610 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Seven Essays. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. E-122 in this important series, the essays are on history, self-reliance, compensation, love, friendship, heroism, and experience, with a note about the author at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD36303 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. First novel by this Chippewa native American, high praise on rear jacket panel by Anne Tyler, Kay Boyle, and Peter Matthiessen, this copy Inscribed by her to a Bay Area sales rep for Bantam Books ("To Allen Goodman/with best wishes/Louise Erdrich"). Very nearly fine. JD27033 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Etulain, Richard W. A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, Review Copy with compliments slip and postcard from the Press sales manager laid in loosely, an important reference work citing articles about John Steinbeck, among others, pages 253-263, also includes a Wallace Stegner section which Stegner has Signed. Fine. JD29003 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Everson, William. The Masks of Drought. Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1980, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. 19 poems by a master, printed by Mackintosh and Young, designed by Barbara Martin, No. 98 of 250 hardcover copies Signed by Everson. Fine in a fine, clear plastic jacket. JD35604 | $65.00 |
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