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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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| [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. Very good minus. JD36991 |  $10.00 |
| [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 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lawrence, Hilda. Death of a Doll. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1270 in this important series, an Inner Sanctum murder mystery, 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. JD36009 | $85.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lawrence, Hilda. Death of a Doll. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1270 in this important series, an Inner Sanctum murder mystery, 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. Good. JD36888 | $45.00 |
| [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 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Lewis, Merrill and Lorene. Wallace Stegner. Boise, Boise State College, 1972, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 4 in the Western Writers Series, one of 500 copies, Colberg Appendix No. 38, this copy Signed by Stegner. Very fine. JD1470 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. K-24 in this important series, a novel "whose title has become a household word," with a note about this Nobel Prize winner at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus, a superior copy. JD36430 | $30.00 |
| [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 | $75.00 |
| [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 | $25.00 |
| [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. JD31181 | $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 | $65.00 |
| [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 | $65.00 |
| [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 | $95.00 |
| [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 | $25.00 |
| [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 | $375.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Lynch, Audry. Steinbeck Remembered. Santa Barbara, Fithian Press, 2000, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Includes interviews with friends and acquaintances of John Steinbeck, inscribed by Lynch to Robert Cathcart, a friend of Steinbeck's from his Stanford days and beyond, see page 8 of Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, see Jack Benson's massive biography, The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, pages 59, 110, 127, 128, 138, 149, 151, 415 ("To Bob Cathcart-/who is charming,/kind and a real storyteller./From one Steinbeck/aficionado to another-/yours in Steinbeck,/Audry Lynch, May 17, 2002"). Fine. JD36936 | $25.00 |
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