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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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| [John Steinbeck] Jackson, Joseph Henry. Notes on a Drum. NY, Macmillan, 1937, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Map endpapers, these are travel sketches in Guatemala, with several suites of photographs, this copy Inscribed and dated in the month and year of publication by the author who was then the literary critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, it includes a blurb on the rear jacket panel by John Steinbeck about Jackson's earlier book, Mexican Interlude, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine in a very good jacket. JD29291 |  $85.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Jackson, Joseph Henry. Why Steinbeck Wrote The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1940, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First issue, one of 12,000 copies, No. 1 in the series of Booklets for Bookmen, with its original envelope, later reprinted as A History of The Grapes of Wrath (that being one of 3,000 copies), this booklet also includes Did Shakespeare Translate The Decameron by Carter Meredith and Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt and I by A. A. Milne, Goldstone & Payne G23, Morrow 572. Near fine. JD28484 | $35.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] James M. Dourgarian. Wallace Stegner. Walnut Creek, James M. Dourgarian, c.1990, first edition. An 8X10-inch color glossy photograph of Stegner sitting in a chair in his California home, he looks directly into the camera, the author won both the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and the National Book Award (The Spectator Bird), signed on the verso by the photographer. As new. JD30664 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Jeffers, John Robinson. Flagons and Apples. Los Angeles, Grafton Publishing Company, 1912, first edition, first printing. This slim hardcover, the Author's First Book, was issued without a dust jacket, Jeffers paid to have the book published in an edition of 500 copies, with the vast majority of those sold to a used book store, his authorial credit uses his full name (later shortened to just Robinson Jeffers). Very good minus with general soiling and age, Holmes Book Company of Los Angeles stamp to front free endpaper, the word "Apples" on the spine label is mostly obscured, the front cover label has tiny chipping around the edges, not affecting any of the text or the decoration. JD30500 | $450.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Jeffers, Robinson. RJ on RJ Robinson Jeffers and the Subtle Passion. Los Angeles, Zamorano Club, 1996, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. One of 125 copies of this string-tied keepsake printed for a joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburge Clubs, designed and printed by William Erik Voss at the Lyceum Press, photo of Jeffers used as frontispiece provided by the Tilman Place Bookshop, San Francisco, it reprints Jeffers reviewing his own first book, Flagons and Apples, in the Los Angeles Times. Fine. JD30533 | $65.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Jennings, John. Boston Cradle of Liberty 1630-1776. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1306 in this important series, "witchcraft, privateering, smuggling, rum and slave running, and the years in which the spirit of liberty and independence was born," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good. JD35531 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Jin, Ha. Waiting. NY, Pantheon, 1999, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A novel, his breakthrough book, winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner award. Fine, unread. JD33249 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Johnson, Lyndon Baines. The Inaugural Address of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, January 20, 1965, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. With frontispiece photo portrait of LBJ with a facsimile of his signature, although he is not credited as such, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck contributed to this speech, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne. Fine. JD27351 | $100.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Jones, Idwal. Vermilion. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1310 in this important series, "a big three-generation novel that spans one hundred years of California history," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good plus. JD36017 | $95.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Jordan, Rene. Marlon Brando. NY, Pyramid Publications, 1973, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Issued as part of Pyramid's Illustrated History of the Movies series, it mentions John Steinbeck, who wrote the screenplay, and the film Viva Zapata!, pages 42-46, 67, 127, profusely illustrated with photos from Brando's films, including Viva Zapata!, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD28740 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Joy, Neill R. (compiler). Joseph Conrad Catalogue. Hamilton, NY, Philobiblon, 1974, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A catalogue of a memorial exhibition of the mss., letters, editions, and memorabilia of Joseph Conrad in the Everett Needham Case Library at Colgate University, Philobiblon is the journal of the Friends of the Colgate University Library, the exhibition opened Aug. 3, 1974 marking the half centenary of the author's death, it closed on Nov. 30, 1974 marking the date of issue of his last complete work of fiction, with its errata slip, it begins with a brief biography of Conrad, followed by a description of the 41 items listed, illustrated. Minor age-toning to wrappers, else fine. JD31449 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinlay. But Look, the Morn. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1233 in this important series, recollections of his childhood, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good. JD36014 | $75.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Karsh, Yousuf. Faces of Our Time. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1971, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Filled with the incredible portraits by this famed Armenian photographer who also provides text and an introduction to his many subjects such as Pablo Casals, Marc Chagall, Sir Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, John F. Kenendy, Martin Luther King, W. Somerset Maugham, Georgia O'Keefe, Pablo Picasso, Tennessee Williams, and John Steinbeck, among many others, the Steinbeck photo and introduction on pages 189-191, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD28771 | $95.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Kazan, Elia. America America. London, Collins, 1963, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, introduction by S. N. Behrman, rear jacket panel with a blurb by John Steinbeck, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine in a very good plus jacket. JD29655 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Kazan, Elia. America America. NY, Stein & Day, 1962, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, Review Copy with Review slip, includes front jacket panel blurbs by James Baldwin, Archibald MacLeish, Harold Clurman, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Steinbeck, Kazan directed both Steinbeck's Viva Zapata! and East of Eden, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD29661 | $95.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds. Garden City, Doubleday, 1956, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. This is the first Anchor Book edition, an abridged version with a new postscript by Kazin in his study of American prose from 1890 which was originally published in 1942, the book quotes and mentions John Steinbeck on pages 22, 77, 288, 304-310, 346, and 407, neither this edition or the original were recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good plus. JD28496 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Keith, Agnes Newton. Land Below the Wind. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. F-167 in this important series, a book about her experiences in Borneo, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, extremely scarce. Very good. JD36340 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Kinnard, Clark (editor). Various Temptations. NY, Avon, 1955, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-385, it reprints Avon No. T-109, includes John Steinbeck's The Crapshooter, pages168-171, text from the New York Herald-Tribune, Goldstone & Payne B88, Morrow 347, also includes Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Robert Penn Warren, and others. Very good plus. JD29593 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Komroff, Manuel. Coronet. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-89 in this important series, a historical novel, 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, this is a very important and scarce D-Day ASE. Large spine chip, else very good. JD35507 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Krauss, Ruth. A Hole Is To Dig. NY, Harper & Bros., 1952, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A first book of first definitions illustrated (charmingly) by Maurice Sendak, Sendak illustrates internally as well as on both endpapers and the dust jacket, while this is a second issue with Grr-r-r on (unpaginated) page 23, it retains the $1.50 price on the jacket, the teal green spine on the book, and the 30-70 code on the front jacket flap. Very good. JD28122 | $95.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Krauss, Ruth. I'll Be You And You Be Me. NY, Harper & Bros., 1954, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak internally as well as on both endpapers and dust jacket, with all the proper first edition points ($1.75 price on jacket with both 30-70 No. 5226A code on front jacket flap and No. 5227A code on rear jacket flap). A very pleasing copy. JD28121 | $150.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Krim, Seymour. Shake It For The World, Smartass. NY, Dial Press, 1970, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Review Copy with Review slip, includes several essays by this Beat writer, including a chapter titled "When We Went to John Steinbeck's Funeral Service: This Is What Happened," pages 375-378, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow 615. Fine in a near fine jacket. JD28714 | $30.00 |
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