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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] Macauley, C. B. F. The Helicopters Are Coming. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 978 in this important series, a prediction of wide-spread use of helicopters, both commercial and personal, illustrated by Erik Nitsche and Roslyn Welcher, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD36732 |  $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] MacDonald, John D. Cancel All Our Vows. NY, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. An early novel from the creator of the Travis McGee mystery series. Very good. JD31154 | $95.00 |
| [Modern Literature] MacDonald, John D. The Long Lavender Look. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1972, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is the 12th Travis McGee mystery and the first American hardcover, it carries the proper $5.50 dust jacket price and the 372 code at the top of the front jacket flap, this was Adrian Goldstone's copy bearing his bookplate, Goldstone was perhaps the most noted collector of mystery/detective novels and his John Steinbeck collection was the basis for the Goldstone & Payne bibliography of Steinbeck. Very good in a fine dust jacket. JD31134 | $200.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Madden, David (editor). Rediscoveries. NY, Crown, 1971, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. There was both a hardcover and a wrappered version, includes essays in which well-known novelists "rediscover" neglected fiction by other authors, includes Robert Penn Warren, Evan Connell, Joyce Carol Oates, Anais Nin, Walker Percy as well as Wallace Stegner whose essay "rediscovers" Glenway Wescott's Good-Bye Wisconsin, Colberg B106, this copy Signed by Stegner. Fine. JD3468 | $55.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Mailer, Norman. Harlot's Ghost. NY, Random House, 1991, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A massive novel about spies, the CIA, Kennedy, Castro, and J. Edgar Hoover. Fine. JD6718 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Mailer, Norman. Marilyn. n.p. (NY), Grosset & Dunlap, 1973, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Mailer provides the biography and the photographers provide the images, photographers include Richard Avedon, Cornell Capa, Milton H. Greene, Philippe Halsman, and many others. Fine in a price-clipped jacket with internal reinforcements. JD32989 | $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Maisel, Albert Q. Miracles of Military Medicine. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-20, just the 20th title issued in this important series, the story of weapons that save lives, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, a very scarce book. Discreet owner's name, very good. JD36844 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Mann, Thomas. Selected Short Stories of Thomas Mann. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-28 in this important series, a paperback original, translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter, with a note about the author 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 minus. JD36105 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Mann, Thomas. Selected Short Stories of Thomas Mann. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-28 in this important series, a paperback original, translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter, with a note about the author 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 minus. JD36990 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Manning, Molly Guptill and Anderson, Brian. The Best-Read Army in the World. NY, The Grolier Club, 2020, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This book was produced as part of an exhibition at The Grolier Club about Armed Services Editions (ASEs) that was supposed to be run from May 13 through August 1, 2020, unfortunately the Covid-19 virus changed all that, fortunately we still have this book produced by Manning who wrote When Books Went to War and Anderson, a major collector of ASEs, she provides an overview while he concentrates on the books in the series, photo-illustrated, informative and an excellent reference. Fine. JD35374 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Mantle, Burns (editor). The Best Plays of 1937-38. NY, Dodd, Mead, 1938, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Golden Boy by Clifford Odets, and Of Mice and Men: Play by John Steinbeck, among others, which is the lead contribution, pages 31-66, Goldstone & Payne B5, Morrow 307. Fine, especially scarce in this condition. JD29299 | $85.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Marquand, John P. B. F.'s Daughter. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1225 in this important series, his first novel with a female protagonist, 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 minus. JD36000 | $65.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Marquand, John P. So Little Time. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. D-120 in this important series, a satirical novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is one of the scarce and important D-Day Armed Services Editions issues. Solid very good. JD35522 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Marquand, John P. The Late George Apley. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. E-146 in this important series, "a novel in the form of a memoir," a Pulitzer Prize winner, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Solid very good. JD36328 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Marsh, Ngaio. Final Curtain. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1269 in this important series, a mystery novel with a theatrical setting by this woman writer from New Zealand, with a list of characters at the end, 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. Fair. JD36889 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Marsh, Ngaio. Final Curtain. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1269 in this important series, a mystery novel with a theatrical setting by this woman writer from New Zealand, with a list of characters at the end, 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 minus. JD36994 | $55.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Martin, Ralph G. Boy From Nebraska. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1227 in this important series, "the story of Ben Kuroki," an American war hero of World War II who also happened to be Nisei, introduction by Bill Mauldin, 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. Slight crease, very good. JD36948 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Mason, F. Van Wyck. Rivers of Glory. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. D-119 in this important series, a historical novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is one of the important and scarce D-Day Armed Services Editions issues. Very good plus. JD35521 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Matthiessen, Peter. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. NY, Viking, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is the suppressed first edition, first issue, it explores the shoot-out near Wounded Knee, South Dakota that ended with the death of one Indian and two FBI agents and the subsequent incarceration of Leonard Peltier for murder, the book was recalled by the publisher because of lawsuits and was suppressed before being re-issued in 1991, this is one of the 1983 escapees, interestingly, the front free endpaper is stamped "International Office/of the/Leonard Peltier Defense Committee" along with its Seattle, WA address and phone number. Previous owner's ink name, address, and phone, rear jacket flap creased, else a nearly fine copy. JD31446 | $85.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Maugham, W. Somerset. The Moon and Sixpence. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. E-128 in this important series, a novel that paralells the life of Gauguin, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD36323 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Mayes, Herbert R. (editor). An Editor's Treasury. NY, Atheneum, 1968, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Two volumes with publisher's slipcase, includes The Joads of California, an excerpt from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, pages 601-604, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes everyone from Aristotle to Zweig. Some wear to slipcase, fine. JD29683 | $30.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] McCaughrean, Geraldine. One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Washington, D. C., The Legacy Project, 2003, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. LP-7, this is a completely new, original version of the Arabian nights as first published by Oxford University Press, distributed by the Legacy Project, a national, all-volunteer effort that works to preserve literacy and American war correspondence, this is the seventh, and last, of new ASEs developed through the efforts of The Legacy Project as headed by Andrew P. Carroll, illustrated, this book is somewhat larger than the traditional ASE size. Fine, unread. JD34660 | $35.00 |
| [Stephen King] McCauley, Kirby (editor). Dark Forces. NY, Viking, 1980, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "new stories of suspense and supernatural horror," 22 short stories by the likes of I. B. Singer, Davis Grubb, Ray Bradbury, Edward Gorey, Robert Bloch, etc., including the first appearance of Stephen King's The Mist, a short novel. Fine in a near fine jacket. JD36763 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] McKenney, J. Wilson. "...Like Captured Fireflies". Georgetown, "Out West", Oct. 1969, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. 6-l6, includes a cover notation about John Steinbeck, a very interesting and scarce item by the editor, publisher, and proprietor of the Wilmac Press, because of the extensive Steinbeck content, Goldstone & Payne C210 identifies this as a Steinbeck periodical appearance, also includes Randall Henderson. Fine. JD30547 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Mencken, H. L. Heathen Days 1890-1936. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-13, just the 13th title issued in this important series, the third volume of his memoirs, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. 41st Special Services Unit headquarters stamp, aged, very good. JD33741 | $45.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Messner, Mike. Steinbeck Country in Dubious Homage. Salinas, Mike Messner, 1979, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. An essay on John Steinbeck and agricultural politics, this copy Inscribed by the author with an Autographed Letter Signed from him laid in loosely, Morrow 656. Fine. JD28960 | $25.00 |
| [The West] Meyers, William H. Sketches of California and Hawaii. San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1970, first edition. Issued without jacket, bound in loose weave cloth, a sequel to his Journal of a Cruise which The Club published in 1955, this book includes 22 of the Meyers water colors made from 1841 to 1844 while aboard the U. S. Sloop-of-War Cyane, edited and with an introduction and commentary by John Haskell Kemble, two previously unpublished letters from Meyers are also incorporated into the text, printed on all-rag paper by Grabhorn-Hoyem, limited to 450 copies, the book's prospectus is laid in loosely along with an extra copy of Plate XII. Fine. JD3649 | $95.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Michener, James A. Iberia Spanish Travels and Reflections. NY, Random House, 1968, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With the publisher's slipcase, No. 375 of 500 numbered copies Signed by Michener, map endpapers in front and the rulers of Spain on the rear endpapers, filled throughout with photographs by Robert Vavra, the dust jacket differs from the trade edition on this signed/limited edition. Both book and dust jacket are fine in a very good slipcase. JD32096 | $150.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Miller, Merle. Viva Zapata!. NY, Argosy, February 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Pages 51-82, profusely illustrated with b&w photos from the 20th Century-Fox film that starred Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata, it also starred Jean Peters and Anthony Quinn, it also includes a note from Jerry Mason, the magazine's editor, on how this novelette by Miller, based on John Steinbeck's screenplay, came to pass, Goldstone & Payne G25, not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD28297 | $75.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Miller, Merle. Viva Zapata!. n.p. (NY), Argosy, February 1952, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. This souvenir reprint is a 32-page bound off-print from the February 1952 issue of "Argosy" in which the magazine attempts to create a novelette in words and pictures, written by Merle Miller based on Steinbeck's screenplay, profusely illustrated with photos from the film which starred Marlon Brando as Zapata, supported by Jean Peters and Anthony Quinn, this was the first in a planned series of this new art form, Goldstone & Payne G26, not recorded by Morrow. Water stained, else very good. JD28298 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Miron, George Thomas. The Truth About John Steinbeck and the Migrants. Los Angeles, Haynes Corporation, 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Cited as Goldstone & Payne F5, although this item wasn't actually in the Goldstone collection, not recorded by Morrow, with an excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath as frontispiece, preface plus four chapters by Miron who decidedly didn't play nice with Steinbeck in his assessment of Steinbeck's masterpiece or his take on agricultural politics, Chapter I is "Introducing the Revolutionary Bortsch," Chapter II is "I Would Stymie Steinbeckism," Chapter III is "Carey McWilliams and Company," Chapter IV is "In the Field," a total of 26 pages, very scarce, not in the Homes collection. Nearly fine. JD36987 | $275.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Mizener, Arthur. Does A Moral Vision of the Thirties Deserve A Nobel Prize?. NY, The New York Times Book Review, December 9, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Mizener comments on whether John Steinbeck should have won the Noble Prize that had just been awarded, his answer, astonishingly enough, was a resounding, "No!," pages 4, 43-45, includes a photo of Steinbeck as well as illustrations of five of his novels, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good. JD28438 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Mizener, Arthur. Does A Moral Vision of the Thirties Deserve A Nobel Prize?. NY, The New York Times Book Review, December 9, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Mizener comments on whether John Steinbeck should have won the Noble Prize that had just been awarded, his answer, astonishingly enough, was a resounding, "No!," pages 4, 43-45, includes a photo of Steinbeck as well as illustrations of five of his novels, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Faint library stamp, else very good. JD30635 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Moore, Harry Thornton. John Steinbeck And His Novels. London, Heinemann, 1939, first British edition, wrappers. Softcover. The first critical study of Steinbeck, Goldstone & Payne F7, Morrow 570. Covers with some soiling and age-darkening, internally fine. JD841 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Moore, Harry Thornton. John Steinbeck And His Novels. London, Heinemann, 1939, first British edition, wrappers. Softcover. The first critical study of Steinbeck, Goldstone & Payne F7, Morrow 570. Cover crease, else fine. JD28462 | $65.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Moore, Harry Thornton. The Novels of John Steinbeck A First Critical Study. Chicago, Normandie House, 1939, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This was the first critical study of Steinbeck, one of 1,000 copies printed at the Black Cat Press, Goldstone & Payne F6, Morrow 569. Goober to the blank rear free endpaper, else fine in a near fine jacket. JD30519 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Morris, Alice S. (editor). The Uncommon Reader. NY, Avon Library, 1965, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. NS4, a paperback original, unusual with beveled edges, includes John Steinbeck's The Affair at 7, Rue de M--, pages 347-354, plus biographical sketch, pages 416, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Dylan Thomas, Falnnery O'Connor, Graham Greene, Terry Southern, Paul Bowles, and others. Slightly toned, fine. JD29663 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Morris, George. John Garfield. n.p. (NY), A Harvest/HBJ Book, 1977, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Part of an illustrated history of the movies series, it discusses John Steinbeck and the film version of his Tortilla Flat in which Garfield starred, pages 77, 84-87, plus two photos from the film, not recorded by Morrow. Previous owner's sticker, else fine. JD28819 | $12.50 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Morrow, Bradford. John Steinbeck A Collection of Books & Manuscripts. Santa Barbara, Bradford Morrow Bookseller, 1980, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. One of only 250 hardcover copies of this superior collection formed by Harry Valentine, it lists 700 items by, about, and related to John Steinbeck, this was issued in September 1980 by Brad Morrow as his Catalogue Eight, it is a great companion to the Goldstone & Payne bibliography, the catalogue includes a foreword by John R. Payne, Morrow eventually left the rare book business and became a poet and novelist in New York City, this copy is inscribed by Harry Valentine to noted Steinbeck scholar, Robert DeMott ("Given in friendship/To Robert DeMott/Harry Valentine"). Fine. JD36894 | $150.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Moseley, Hardwick (editor). The Romance of North America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1958, book club edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated with maps and photos, Wallace Stegner contributes The Rocky Mountain West, see Colberg B47, this copy Signed by Wallace Stegner, it also includes Bernard DeVoto, Jack Schaefer, and others. Very good. JD3506 | $25.00 |
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