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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.
| [John Steinbeck] Steinbeck, John. Autograph Letter Signed. Los Gatos, John Steinbeck, September 1939, first edition. Steinbeck writes 23 lines to John and Alice Cohee, long-time friends, in 1933 she urged him to try one more time to place Tortilla Flat, previous attempts fell flat, at that time he had three books published, none of which were successful, he did try again after following her advice, Covici Freide took the book which then launched his Nobel Prize-winning career, he then gifted her a specially bound copy of Tortilla Flat, one of only two copies, he writes about his heath, reporting that he had working "and then got thrown by this bad leg - spent two weeks in bed and flew home. Have had a bad year since last november. Bloody leg just collapsed with pain and Dr.'s cut off little pieces of me trying to find a focus of infection. The thing went away a couple of weeks ago so maybe they found it," his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, had been published in April of that year, exploding adversity, he writes "Have to go lost this week and don't know when I'll get back. I wish to god we could see everybody (name) and you. But our friends have been the ones who have let us alone in this misery of crazy publicity and we've been nibbled to death by strangers. Sometime we'll be free - maybe. It doesn't look like it now," he reports they (he and Carol) have been to Seattle recently and were enthusiastic about the whole Northwest, he concludes "We do want to see you. When I don't know. We don't know how long we'll be east - only hope it won't be too long. It's too nice here," signed with "love/John," housed in its original mailing envelope addressed by Steinbeck, this letter was not recorded in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. Folded for mailing, envelope torn open, else fine. JD 36970 |  $3,500.00 |
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