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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.
| [Steinbeckiana] (Steinbeck, John). Columbia Literary Series. NY, Columbia Records, 1953, first edition. This is the entire set of the de luxe edition, Series SL 190, that includes 12 12-inch records, 33 rpm, with authors reading their own works, it includes John Steinbeck reading his The Snake and Johnny Bear, individually numbered from ML4752 to ML4963, the series was edited by Goddard Lieberson, it also includes W. Somerset Maugham, Truman Capote, the three Sitwells, John Collier, Edna Ferber, William Saroyan, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley, and Katherine Anne Porter, it also includes a book about the making of this series and the authors featured, the book provides an overview of the series and also includes a page about each author with a photo of them, the names of all the authors featured are printed on the record (paper) slipcovers, all are housed in a way cool black leather attache case with black leather strap handle and black leather-cover snaps, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, very scarce in this de luxe edition, here is some of what is recorded: Maugham reads The Three Fat Women of Antibes, Huxley reads Brave New World, Collier reads Mary, Katherine Anne Porter reads Flowering Judas, Isherwood reads A Berlin Diary, Capote reads Children on Their Birthdays, Ferber reads The Gay Old Dog, Saroyan talks ands tries to read from several of his novels, plays,and stories. Wear to attache case, one snap doesn't work, but both are present, half-inch scratch to one side of the Capote record, else records are clean and bright with minimal wear. JD 36952 |  $850.00 |
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