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James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
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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.
| [Modern Literature] Roberts, Kenneth. Harlem in Siberia. n.p., n.p., n.d., first edition. This is a nine-page typescript of this story about an American traveling through Siberia whose trains breaks down, while awaiting repairs, he happens upon a Black woman singing an old Southern song about "a little black baby who wasn't allowed to play with a little white baby, and pined away and died," the woman and her brother, American entertainers, had settled there, along with her elderly husband who owns a nearby vodka factory, they and other characters have dinner together until the man's train is repaired, although the title is given, no author is noted, but other ABAA members have indicated that this story is by Kenneth Roberts, it comes from the estate of his long-time friend and editor at Doubleday, Malcolm Johnson, with a letter of provenance from Johnson's daughter-in-law, the story is typed on rectos only (with the exception of the first page which was started on the verso for two lines until Roberts started over again), there are hand-corrections, strike-throughs, word changes, changes of locations of words, changes in punctuation, etc. on every page, it appears that this story is unpublished. Typed on cheap paper, first leaf with faint paper clip marks. JD 31898 |  $1,250.00 |
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