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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, 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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| [Stephen King] Underwood, Tim and Miller, Chuck (editors). Fear Itself. San Francisco, Underwood-Miller, 1982, first trade edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Introduction by Peter Straub, foreword by Stephen King, afterword by George A. Ramero, includes pieces on Stephen King and his horror fiction by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Fritz Leiber, Charles L. Grant, Douglas E. Winter, etc., including the first King bibliography which, interestingly, states that King is not Richard Bachman and that King has never used the Bachman name as a pseudonym. Fine. |  $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Undset, Sigrid. The Bridal Wreath. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-30 in this important series, a historical novel of life in medieval Norway, translated by Charles Archer and J. S. Scott, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. | $12.50 |
| [John Steinbeck] Untermeyer, Louis (editor). A Treasury of Ribaldry. Garden City, Hanover House, 1956, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes John Steinbeck's Tortillas and Beans, plus a brief Steinbeck biography, pages 611-616, text from Tortilla Flat, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Aristophanes, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Forester, Ray Bradbury, and others, this is not a print-on-demand abomination. Very good. | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Untermeyer, Louis (editor). A Treasury of Ribaldry. NY, Popular Library, 1959, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. W600, includes John Steinbeck's Tortillas and Beans, introduction and text pages 385-392, text from Tortilla Flat, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Aristophanes, John O'Hara, Oscar Wilde, and many others. Fine. | $15.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Updike, John. Rabbit At Rest. NY, Knopf, 1990, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize winner. Fine. | $10.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Updike, John. Rabbit Is Rich. NY, Knopf, 1981, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Third book in his Rabbit series, Pulitzer Prize winner. Fine. | $25.00 |
| [Cinema] (Uris, Leon). Exodus. United Artists, 1961, first edition thus, self-wrappers. Softcover. An original-release film pressbook, 12 pages, book tie-ins. Nearly fine. | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Valjean, Nelson. John Steinbeck The Errant Knight. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1975, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "An intimate biography of his California years," with several photographic illustrations, frontispiece photo of Steinbeck by Phillippe Halsman, Morrow 634. Fine in a rubbed (as usual) jacket. | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Valjean, Nelson. John Steinbeck The Errant Knight. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1975, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "An intimate biography of his California years," with several photographic illustrations, frontispiece photo of Steinbeck by Phillippe Halsman, Morrow 634. Fine. | $45.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Van Antwerp, Margaret A. (editor). Dictionary of Literary Biography, Documentary Series, Vol. 2. Detroit, Gale Research, 1982, first edition. Isssued without dust jacket, Review Copy with typed note signed and a press release from Gale Research laid in loosely, 480 pages, illustrated, authors covered in this volume include James Gould Cozzens, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright, and John Steinbeck, the Steinbeck section offered by Martha Heasley Cox, founder of the Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University, pages 279-332. Fine. | $75.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Van Doren, Mark. The Private Reader. NY, Henry Holt, 1942, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A Review Copy with review slip dated February 23 (1942), the book includes selected articles and reviess by Van Doren, including a review of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, pages 255-257, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine in a very good jacket. | $60.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Van Druten, John. The Voice of theTurtle. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 815 in this important series, a comedy in three acts, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | $12.50 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Vance, Malcolm. The Movie Ad Book. Minneapolis, Control Data Publishing, 1981, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Profusely illustrated with great movies and their advertising, includes some copy on John Steinbeck's East of Eden and its star, James Dean, page 24, full-page illustration of the newspaper ad for the film, page 29. Fine. | $12.50 |
| [Modern Literature] Varley, John. Demon. NY, Putnam, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Hugo and Nebula winner. The usual tanned pages, clipped jacket, else fine. | $65.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Vestal, Stanley. Jim Bridger Mountain Man. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1199 in this important series, a biography of this fur-trapper/Indian fighter/frontiersman, 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, this is in the very scarce upright format. Very good. | $65.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Vollmann, William T. You Bright and Risen Angels. London, Andre Deutsch, 1987, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, the British edition precedes the American, it includes Vollmann's "social gazette of the personalities interviewed for this book," illustrated by the author, this copy is Signed by Vollmann. Fine. | $125.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Vollmann, William T. You Bright and Risen Angels. NY, Atheneum, 1987, first American edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, illustrated by him, it includes his "social gazette of the personalities interviewed for this book," Signed by Vollmann. Fine. | $125.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Voltaire. Candide. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-64 in this important series, classic satire, 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. Darkened, very good minus. | $30.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Vonnegut, Kurt. Bluebeard. NY, Delacorte, 1987, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. The memoirs of Rabo Karabekian who first appeared in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. Fine, unread. | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Vonnegut, Kurt. Typed Letter Signed. n.p., Kurt Vonnegut, 1987, first edition. A single sheet, dated August 29, 1987, three paragraphs, a total of 16 lines, Signed in full by Vonnegut who had been queried as to why he used an Armenian as a character in his books, Rabo Karabekian made his first appearance in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions and later appeared in his Bluebeard in which Vonnegut uses the memoirs of Karabekian as his novel, in part he writes, "I put an Armenian in an earlier book -- only because I like the sound of Armenian names and, of course, because they seem a gifted people. Whenever I start a novel, I have to ransack my brains for subjects which might be of interest not only to myself but to others. And Karabekian was there in the midst of all the junk in my attic, and I wondered what about him might be of universal interest these days. And this was it, of course: genocide," the letter is unpublished. Folded for mailing in its original envelope addressed by Vonnegut. | $1,250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Vonnegut, Mark. The Eden Express. Playboy, November 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. The issue also includes an interview with Muhammad Ali as well as fiction by George Macdonald Fraser and Paul Theroux. Very good plus. | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Voss, Arthur. The American Short Story. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1973, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes a section on John Steinbeck, a master of the short story, pages 268-273, it also quotes from some of his works, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, it also studies J. D. Salinger, Jack London, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and others. Near fine. | $15.00 |
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