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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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| [Steinbeckiana] Lamarr, Hedy. Ecstacy and Me. n.p., Bartholomew House, 1966, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Her "life as a woman," photo illustrations, including one of her with John Garfield from the film version of John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good minus. JD28578 |  $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lamb, Charles. The Essays of Charles Lamb. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. F-175 in this important series, a paperback original, essays selected and with an introduction by Saxe Commins, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Spine fade, else very good. JD31973 | $15.00 |
| [The West] Land, BarbaraJ. (editor). 1997 Keepsake Twelve Treasures From The Library. San Francisco, Book Club of California, July 1998, first edition. Consisting of 13 folders (one for introduction and 12 for the featured treasures), with illustrations, housed in a folding packet. Fine. JD1393 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Landis, Walter S. Your Servant the Molecule. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1167 in this important series, chemistry from vitamin pills to high octane gasoline, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD33262 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Lea, Tom. The King Ranch. Boston, Little Brown, 1957, first edition. Two volumes, with publisher's slipcase, with maps and illustrations by the author, "the hundred-year story of the greatest ranch in the world," this is the second state with the error on page 507 corrected. Vol. I with 1957 Christmas gift inscription, else both volumes fine, slipcase is very good plus. JD33223 | $125.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Lennon, John. ai Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes. San Francisco, Cadence Books, 1992, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. Issued with dust jacket, foreword by Yoko Ono, a personal sketchbook reproducing 84 line drawings by Lennon originally kept in a sketchbook while learning Japanese, drawings are full of wit, charm, humor, satire, and love. Remainder marks, else fine in a slightly soiled jacket. JD33018 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Lennon, John. Skywriting By Word of Mouth. NY, Harper & Row, 1986, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, includes the title piece as well as others including The Ballad of John and Yoko, frontispiece drawing by Lennon, illustrated throughout with his drawings, No. 436 of 500 numbered copies specially bound and slipcased with a frameable drawing printed on acid-free paper laid in loosely within a paper chemise, each copy of the book is Signed by Yoko Ono and includes an afterword by her. Fine. JD35631 | $450.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Levack, Daniel J H. PKD A Philip K. Dick Bibliography. San Francisco, Underwood-Miller, 1981, first edition, first printing, clear plastic dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes annotations by Steven Owen Godersky, with illustrated endpapers, this is one of only 200 copies Signed by Dick himself, Levack, and Godersky, photography provided by Paul A. Nelson, there were another 800 copies issued in softcover that were unsigned, printed on acid-free stock, includes an Afterword by Dick himself who died in 1982, this is Nit's copy,. Fine. JD35534 | $1,250.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Levant, Oscar. A Smattering of Ignorance. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-7 in this important series, "impudent, wit-filled stories about music, musicians, and himself," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Bright and clean, very good plus. JD34398 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Levant, Oscar. A Smattering of Ignorance. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-7 in this important series, "impudent, wit-filled stories about music, musicians, and himself," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD35379 | $17.50 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lewis, Lloyd. Myths After Lincoln. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 771 in this important series, introduction by Carl Sandburg, it covers the myths that followed Lincoln's death, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34477 | $12.50 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Lewis, Merrill and Lorene. Wallace Stegner. Boise, Boise State College, 1972, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 4 in Boise State College's Western Writers Series, one of 500 copies, Colberg Appendix No. 38, this copy Signed by Stegner. Very fine. JD1467 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Lewis, Oscar. A Widely Cast Net. San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1996 (sic, Aug. 1998), first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Selections from the works of Lewis chosen by him with comments, edited by Wayne Bonnett, a much-delayed book (it carries a 1996 date, but was issued in 1998), printed by Susan Acker of the Feathered Serpent Press, it represents more than 50 years of writing, including short stories, commentary, travel, serendipity, etc., includes 35 vintage line drawings, one of 400 copies, foreword by Lewis as well as a frontispiece portrait of him, with prospectus laid in. As new, unread. JD1399 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lewis, Sinclair. Cass Timberlane. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 969 in this important series, one of three Lewis ASEs, a novel of husbands and wives, this is his 19th novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34995 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Lewis, Sinclair. Launcelot. n.p. (Cambridge), Harvard Press, n.d. (1932), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 7 of 100 numbered copies publishing Sinclair Lewis's earliest known published writing, a poem, printed by the Harvard Press for Harvey Taylor, Signed by Taylor, the poem was originally published in the Yale Literary Magazine in March 1904, two stapled sheets that make eight pages including the covers, scarce. Fine. JD35620 | $125.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lewis, Sinclair. Mantrap. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 911 in this important series, a novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Solid very good. JD34619 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Liedloff, Hermut. Steinbeck in German Translation. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University, 1965, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A study of translational practices via the university's Department of Foreign Languages, No. 1 of the Humanities Series of Southern Illinois University monographs, Goldstone & Payne G13, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD28536 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Lilienthal, Theodore. The Frances & Theodore Lilienthal Robinson Jeffers Collection In Memoriam 1887-1962. San Francisco, Theodore Lilienthal, 1964, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Published in honor of the opening of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, San Francisco Public Library, includes a checklist of the collection and prints a note from Lilienthal about his first meeting with Una and Robinson Jeffers. Fine. JD31179 | $10.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Lillard, Richard G. A Fresh Perspective on the Old West. Georgetown, "Out West", Oct. 1972, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A review of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, 59-63, not recorded by Colberg, this was the last issue of this publication. Fine. JD1509 | $10.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Lillard, Richard G. A Fresh Perspective on the Old West. Georgetown, "Out West", Oct. 1972, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A review of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, 59-63, not recorded by Colberg, this was the last issue of this California periodical. Some marks to rear cover, else fine. JD1512 | $10.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel. General William Booth Enters Into Heaven And Other Poems. NY, Mitchell Kennerley, 1913, first edition. Author's First Book, with use of his full name before it was shortened to just Vachel Lindsay. Very good. JD3906 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Lisca, Peter. The Wide World of John Steinbeck. Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1958, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. The first full-length critical study of Steinbeck, Goldstone & Payne F42, Morrow 591, very scarce in the first printing, Review Copy with review slip. Very good plus. JD2297 | $75.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Lisca, Peter. The Wide World of John Steinbeck. Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1958, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. The first full-length critical study of Steinbeck, Goldstone & Payne F42, Morrow 591, very scarce in the first printing, this is a Review Copy with review slip, very scarce thus. Fine in a very good jacket. JD28525 | $150.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Lisca, Peter. The Wide World of John Steinbeck. NY, Gordian Press, 1981, first edition thus. Issued without dust jacket, this is a new edition with additional material, originally published in 1958 by Rutgers University Press. Text block edges foxed, else fine. JD29010 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lockridge, Frances and Richard. Death on the Aisle. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 747 in this important series, a Mr. & Mrs. North mystery set on Broadway, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34453 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lockridge, Frances and Richard. Payoff For The Banker. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 789 in this important series, a Mr. & Mrs. North mystery, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Solid very good. JD34495 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Autographed Letter Signed. n.p., n.p., 1879, first edition. A single sheet dated Dec. 10, 1879 to a periodical, probably Youth's Companion, "Dear Sir,/I promised you something/for the Companion, as soon/as I had anything suitable./The enclosed may not/be inappropriate, for/your Christmas No./Please send me proof./Yours truly/Henry W. Longfellow". Folded twice for mailing, verso with his name in full in pencil, non-authorial, with three marks from a previous mounting. JD31355 | $600.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Paul Revere's Ride And Other Poems. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 704 in this important series, a paperback original, poems selected and with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34939 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Longley, Marjorie, Silverstein, Louis, and Tower, Samuel A. (editors). America's Taste. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1960, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. The book includes "The cultural events of a century (1851-1959) reported by contemporary observers in the pages of The New York Times," it includes references to John Steinbeck and the Times review of his The Grapes of Wrath, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, it also includes Wallace Stegner'sTimes review of William Saroyan's The Human Comedy which Stegner has Signed. Near fine. JD28542 | $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lovecraft, H. P. The Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 730 in this important series, a paperback original, introduction by August Derleth, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is among the most desired of all the ASEs. Very good. JD35486 | $300.00 |
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