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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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| [Modern Literature] Walker, Alice. Once. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, a poetry collection, Signed by Walker (author of The Color Purple) on the title page. Remainder mark, else fine in a very good plus jacket. JD32967 |  $450.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Warga, Wayne. Hardcover. NY, Arbor House, 1985, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Author's First Book, advance copy, an uncorrected proof of this biblio-mystery in which a John Steinbeck first edition is the main clue, this copy Inscribed by Warga, autographed note from Warga also laid in loosely. Light use. JD28911 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Warren, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time. NY, Random House, 1950, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. No. 291 of an unknown number limited for presentation to the American Booksellers Association, front cover stamped "presentation edition," issued with a clear plastic dust jacket. Plastic jacket with the expected short tear and minor chip, else fine. JD6823 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Warrick, Patricia S. and Greenberg, Martin H. (editors). Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick, includes 15 short stories by Dick. Fine. JD33112 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wason, Betty. Miracle In Hellas. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-78 in this important series, "the Greeks fight on" in World War II, 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 very important and scarce D-Day ASEs. Bit of top of spine corruption, stamp of 41st Special Services Unit headquarters, very good. JD33744 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wason, Betty. Miracle In Hellas. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-78 in this important series, "the Greeks fight on" in World War II, 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 very important and scarce D-Day ASEs. Very good. JD36954 | $40.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Watson, Douglas S. The Life of Johann August Sutter. San Francisco, Grabhorn Press, 1933, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. One of 200 copies printed for the Catholic Women's Club of Santa Clara County (California) as a souvenir of Campus Day May 25, 1933 at the University of Santa Clara where Watson delivered a talk on the life of Sutter, this piece first appeared as an introduction to The Diary of Johann August Sutter which the Grabhorn Press published a year earlier, this is NOT one of those ridiculous print-on-demand abominations. Very good. JD27254 | $45.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Watt, F. W. John Steinbeck. NY, Grove Press, 1962, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, an Evergreen Pilot Book, Review Copy with review slip showing publication date as May 31, 1962, this is the first American edition, cover photo by Karsh, Goldstone & Payne F47, not recorded by Morrow. Piece of tape to front cover, very good plus. JD28527 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Watt, F. W. Steinbeck. NY, Chip's Bookshop, 1978, first edition thus. Issued without dust jacket, this is the first hardcover edition, originally published as a paperback original in both Edinburgh and the United States in 1962, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD28820 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Webster, Noah. Webster's New Handy Dictionary. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 718 in this important series, second issue of this number with the numbering sequence in the rear from No. 735 to 774 (the first issue is numbered from No. 695 to 734), based on Webster's New International Dictionary, a very scarce book, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Front cover rough, else very good. JD33929 | $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Webster, Noah. Webster's New Handy Dictionary. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 718 in this important series, second issue with other ASE titles listed in the rear from Nos. 735 to 774, "based upon Webster's international dictionary," this and the other dictionary, No. 717, are among the scarcest books in the series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. A bit rough and with some ink numbering not affecting the text. JD34955 | $65.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Webster, Noah. Webster's New Handy Dictionary. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 717 in this important series, second issue with other ASE titles listed in the rear from Nos. 735 to 774, "based upon Webster's international dictionary," this and the other dictionary, No. 718, are among the scarcest books in the series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. JD36485 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Webster, Noah. Webster's New Handy Dictionary. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 718 in this important series, first issue with other ASE titles listed in the rear from Nos. 696 to 734, "based upon Webster's international dictionary," this and the other dictionary, No. 717, are among the scarcest books in the series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Spine faded, else very good. JD36487 | $60.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wentworth, Harold and Flexner, Stuart Berg. Dictionary of American Slang. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967, first edition thus, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. With a supplement by Flexner that updates the 1960 original edition, this is a Review Copy with review slip. Fine in a very good plus dust jacket. JD31206 | $65.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. Die Vierzig Tage Des Musa Dagh. Berlin, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1933, first edition. Two volumes, blue cloth, lacking their dust jackets, according to a letter from Europe Unie Books, the book was published in both red and blue cloth, the first edition consisted of 10,000 copies, "The book burnings took place in Germany at the beginning of the Third Reich, and although books were confiscated and burned, it was mostly for show, as most of the 'forbidden' books were shipped off to Holland in an attempt to flood the market there with German books and thereby bankrupt the publishers of German authors in exile, such as Werfel," but few were actually burned, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915. Spines faded, very good. JD33878 | $500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. Die Vierzig Tage Des Musa Dagh. Berlin, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1933, first edition, dust jackets. Hardcover. Two volumes, red cloth, ribbon place marker, this copy Signed by Werfel in Vienna in the year of publication, according to a letter from Europe Unie Books, the book was published in both red and blue cloth, the first edition consisted of 10,000 copies, "The book burnings took place in Germany at the beginning of the Third Reich, and although books were confiscated and burned, it was mostly for show, as most of the 'forbidden' books were shipped off to Holland in an attempt to flood the market there with German books and thereby bankrupt the publishers of German authors in exile, such as Werfel," but few were actually burned, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915, extremely scarce when found signed by Werfel, none were found on-line as of this writing. Very good. JD33880 | $2,500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Giant Cardinal, 1961, first edition thus, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. No. GC 768, full-page note about the book by William Saroyan, this is the novelization of the events of 1915 wherein the Turkish government ordered the slaughter of Armenians living in Turkey, this book tells the story of a group of Armenians who fought against their slaughter by staging a defense atop Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this first holocaust of the 20th Century killed 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey who were subject to Turkish oppression for centuries. Very good. JD33873 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1934, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. One of 750 advance copies privately distributed and not for sale, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915, includes two inserts to be inserted in the "regular" edition that were received too late for inclusion in this special edition, one is nearly exactly what was used on the front flap of the dust jacket about Franz Werfel, the other is a list of characters as well as a glossary of Armenian and Turkish terms which is found in the rear of the trade edition. Scattered foxing to cloth, especially along the spine and the front and rear pastedowns, includes its original (and scarce) clear plastic jacket. JD33875 | $375.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1934, first edition. Although the first preliminary indicates this is one of 750 specially bound (advance) copies, it is actually one of only 32 copies specially bound for the staff of The Viking Press, noted by a tipped in insert, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915, this is the only "staff" copies seen by this bookseller in his 39 years of professional bookselling, issued without a dust jacket according to a postcard from the bookseller from whom this copy was purchased. Very good. JD33876 | $750.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1934, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Map endpapers, list of characters in the rear along with a glossary of Armenian and Turkish terms, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government who ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government. Clean, bright copy in a very good jacket. JD35589 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1934, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Map endpapers, list of characters in the rear along with a glossary of Armenian and Turkish terms, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government who ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government. Bright copy in a very good jacket with one internal tape repair. JD36945 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1934, first edition. One of 750 advance copies privately distributed and not for sale, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh (Moses's Mountain), this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915, Inscribed by Werfel to O. J. Kadlec in New York in 1935, very scarce thus. Rear hinge starting, bookplate, soiling to cloth, spine aged, rear pastedown with some pencil notes. JD36999 | $750.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days. London, Hutchinson International Authors Ltd, n.d., first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Geoffrey Dunlop, the title is shortened from its original title, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Musa Dagh being a mountain known as Moses's mountain, it was there that a group of Armenians resisted slaughter by the Turks on the order of the Turkish government in 1915, the first holocaust of the 20th Century wherein 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey who were subject to Turkish oppression for centuries were killed in massacres or forced deportations. 1945-dated ink inscription, else near fine in a very good jacket. JD33872 | $85.00 |
| [Modern Literature] (Werfel, Franz). Forty Days of Musa Dagh. n.p., Video City Productions, 1983, first edition. The Beta version of this film based on Werfel's novel about the stand Armenians made on the mountain known as Musa Dagh (Moses's Mountain) trying to save their race from the brutality of the Turkish government, the genocide perpetrated by the Turkish government killed 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians in Turkey in 1915, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, the film starred Guy Stockwell, Peter Haskell, David Opatashu, extremely difficult to find. Fine. JD33865 | $75.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] West, Ray B. (editor). The Rocky Mountain Reader. NY, Dutton, 1946, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. An anthology that includes Wallace Stegner who offers Arcadian Village, an excerpt from his Mormon Country, Colberg B12, it also includes Bernard DeVoto, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Vardis Fisher, and others. Near fine in a very good jacket. JD3513 | $65.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Brett. Brett Weston Voyage of the Eye. Millerton, Aperture, 1975, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Afterword by Beaumont Newhall, followed by a Weston chronology and a selected bibliography. Fine in a near fine jacket. JD31077 | $65.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Charis Wilson and Edward. California and the West. NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940, first edition, first printing. Lacking its dust jacket, a U. S. Camera book with 96 photographs, photos taken from 1937 to 1939 while on a Guggenheim fellowship, text by Charis Wilson Weston, his second wife, from a diary she kept. Very good. JD31081 | $125.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Cole. Cole Weston At Home And Abroad. NY, Aperture, 1998, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes an introductory essay, A Long Day's Journey Into Light, by Paul Wolf. Fine. JD31082 | $10.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Cole. Eighteen Photographs. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, 1981, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. With a dust jacket, foreword by Ben Maddow, introduction by Charis Wilson, this copy is Signed by Cole Weston. Fine. JD31101 | $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. B-34, just the 34th title issued in this important series, lengthy quotes on the rear cover about the book by Bernard De Voto praises the novel and Wharton, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Owner's stamp, rear corner chip, else very good. JD36270 | $45.00 |
| [Modern Literature] White, Kenneth. The Coast Opposite Humanity. Wales, Unicorn Bookshop, 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Subtitled An Essay on the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Fine. JD30538 | $35.00 |
| [Stephen King] Wiater, Stanley, Golden, Christopher, and Wagner, Hank. The Stephen King Universe. Baltimore, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2001, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisher's slipcase, this is No. 517 of 1,000 numbered copies Signed by all three authors, map endpapers by Claudia Carlson, dust jacket art and design by Bill Walker, published at $75. Fine. JD36756 | $375.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1976, first edition thus. Full leather with gilt designs, AEG, ribbon place marker, moire endpapers, color illustrations by William Maughan, this book won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize. Fine. JD33781 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Wilhelmson, Carl. Speed of the Reindeer. NY, Viking, 1954, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A young person's story of Lapland, illustrated by Rafaelio Busoni, Wilhelmson was a fellow writer and friend of John Steinbeck during their days together at Stanford University and somewhat beyond, back panel of the dust jacket recalls the time they spent together at Lake Tahoe while Steinbeck was writing his first book, Cup of Gold, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne nor the Morrow catalogue. Near fine. JD28264 | $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] William Shakespeare. Henry V. Washington, D. C., The Legacy Project, 2003, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. LP-3, this is the third book in a new series of Armed Services Editions made possible through the all-volunteer efforts of The Legacy Project headed by Andrew P. Carroll which works to preserve American war correspondence, the original ASEs were issued by the Council in Books in Wartime between 1943 and 1947 for American soldiers here and abroad, this book is done in the same manner as the original ASEs. Fine, unread. JD36944 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Williams, John A. Love. Derry, Babcock & Koontz, n.d. (1989), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. An excerpt from a work in progress then titled The Book Without Title which was later (1999) published as Clifford's Blues, this is No. 88 of 200 copies signed by the author bound in string-tied wrappers, there was also a signed/limited hardcover, includes a wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec, includes a sheet folded to make four pages that lists other titles by this specialty press "of works by significant writers," published at $45. Fine, unread. JD33635 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Williamson, Jack. Dragon's Island. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1951, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Briefly inscribed by Williamson on the title page in 1981. Very good. JD33121 | $50.00 |
| [Photography] Wilson, Charis and Weston, Edward. California and the West. Millerton, Aperture, 1978, first edition thus. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, this is No. 218 of 350 copies produced with hand selected sheets that are Signed by Charis Wilson, with 64 photographs by Edward Weston and a foreword by Charis Wilson to this new, revised edition, originally published in 1940, lacking the silver print from the original negative (as usual). Fine. JD31080 | $375.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Wilson, Edmund. The Californians: Storm and Steinbeck. NY, The New Republic, December 9, 1940, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. The third in a series on American writers, it also quotes John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle, pages 784-787, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Library stamps from Princeton University, some spine corruption, else very good. JD28415 | $20.00 |
| [Stephen King] Winter, Douglas E. Stephen King: The Art of Darkness. NY, New American Library, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Forward by Winter, includes a chronology as well as material on Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, etc. through The Talisman, also includes a King bibliography. Fine. JD36801 | $50.00 |
| [Stephen King] Winter, Douglas E. Stephen King. Mercer Island, Starmont House, 1982, first edition. Hardcover, issued without dust jacket. this is No. 16 in the Starmont Reader's Guide series, the book covers Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Dark Tower, The Dead Zone, Firestarter, The Mist, and others. Fine. JD36779 | $35.00 |
| [Stephen King] Winter, Douglas E. Stephen King. Mercer Island, Starmont House, 1982, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is No. 16 in the Starmont Reader's Guide series, the book covers Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Dark Tower, The Dead Zone, Firestarter, The Mist, and others. Fine. JD36781 | $20.00 |
| [Stephen King] Winter, Douglas E. (editor). Prime Evil. West Kingston, Donald M. Grant, 1988, first edition. Issued without jacket, but with publisher's tray case, book design and illustrations by Thomas Canty, introduction by Winter, includes "evil" stories by the likes of Stephen King (The Night Flier), Clive Barker, Peter Straub, and others, this is No. 377 of 1,000 copies Signed by all the contributors. Fine. JD36761 | $999.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Winterich, John T. Writers in America, 1842-1967. Jersey City, The Davey Company, 1968, first edition. With publisher's slipcase, illustrated by Fritz Kredel, with a note from the publisher laid in loosely, includes The Fruits of Wrath: John Steinbeck, pages 74-76, also includes Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and others, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD32254 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wintz, Henri and Hyde, David. Precious Artifacts 2. n.p., Wide Books, 2014, first edition. Illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket, subtitled A Philip K. Dick Bibliography The Short Stories, it covers American and UK editions 1952-2014, with color and b&w illustrations, this is No. 18 of only 50 hardcover copies, scarce, as of this writing, there are no hardcover copies listed on-line, this is Nit's copy, this is not a print on demand abomination. Fine. JD35533 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wintz, Henri and Hyde, David. Precious Artifacts. n.p., Wide Books, 2012, first edition. Illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket, subtitled A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, it covers American and UK editions 1955-2012, with the errata slip laid in loosely, with color and b&w illustrations, this is No. 26 of only 100 hardcover copies, scarce, this is Nit's copy. Fine. JD35532 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Hot Water. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1932, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. More humor by a master, frontispiece and five other illustrations by Rea Irvin. Aged, very good in a good jacket. JD33617 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Laughing Gas. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A novel about "Hollywood and a noble young Englishman named Reggie Havershot". Very good. JD33619 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Money in the Bank. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1942, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Humor in the Wodehouse tradition, jacket illustrated by Donald McKay. Very good in a very good minus jacket. JD33620 | $175.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Seven humorous stories by a master of the craft. Aged, very good in a very good minus jacket. JD33609 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Humor by a master of the craft, front jacket illustration features a pig, ironically, the jacket was designed by Peggy Bacon. Aged, very good. JD33608 | $300.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Young Men in Spats. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. 12 humorous stories by a master of the craft. Aged, very good in a poor jacket with internal tape reinforcements. JD33607 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. Hooking Up. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Preceded by a Franklin Library signed/limited edition, he writes about the eternal sexual struggle, it also reprints for the first time a novella, Ambush at Ft. Bragg, this copy Signed by Wolfe on the front free endpaper. Fine. JD32390 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. I Am Charlotte Simmons. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Wolfe has Signed this novel on the title page. Fine. JD32387 | $60.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. In Our Time. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated with several drawings by the author, this copy Inscribed by Wolfe ("To/Leonard/Tom Wolfe") with his usual flourish. Fine in a jacket with four short tears. JD33394 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated by Wolfe himself, the book includes "other stories, sketches, and essays" as Wolfe writes about the "Me" decade of the 1970s, this copy Inscribed ("For/Leroy/Soper/...more Tom foolery/by/Tom Wolfe/October 22/1979"). Touch of edgewear, else fine. JD32398 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, illustrated with Wolfe's own drawings, not only is this copy Signed by Wolfe on the half-title, but it's a presentation from Arnold Gingrich, editor of "Esquire" where some of this material was first published, laid in loosely is a typed letter signed by Gingrich presenting the book to Arthur E. Sudler, chairman of the board and president of Sudler & Hennessey, a healthcare communications company, a very young Wolfe is pictured on the rear cover, nattilly dressed, as usual. Jacket price-clipped, else fine. JD32392 | $1,250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. The New Journalism. NY, Harper & Row, 1973, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Wolfe first writes about the new journalism which is followed by an anthology of just that - new journalism by distinguished authors, the anthology is edited by Wolfe and E. W. Johnson, it includes selections by Truman Capote (from In Cold Blood), Terry Southern (Twirling at Ole Miss), Hunter S. Thompson (The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved), Norman Mailer (from Armies of the Night), Tom Wolfe (from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), George Plimpton (from Paper Lion), and many others, this copy is Inscribed by Wolfe on the title page, Hunter S. Thompson has Signed his initials on page 174 of his contribution, Ralph Steadman has Inscribed and Signed the book on page 175 onto which he has contributed an original drawing. Near fine. JD32388 | $4,500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. The Purple Decades. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Introduction by David Bellamy, this copy Inscribed by Wolfe on the front free endpaper, this Wolfe reader covers the 1960s and 1970s, the purple decades, illustrated, it includes material from The Pump House Gang, The Electric Kool-Aide Acid Test, Radical Chic, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Right Stuff, etc. Very nearly fine. JD32389 | $125.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolff, Tobias. The Other Miller. Derry/Ridgewood, Babcock & Koontz, 1986, first edition. Hardcover issued without dust jacket, printed label affixed to front board, No. 91 of 200 Arabic-numbered copies (there were another 40 with Roman numerals) Signed in full by Wolff, title page engraving by Gaylord Schanilac, this short story first appeared in the June 1986 issue of "The Atlantic," this is the first separate printing, with publisher's prospectus for this book and other recent titles. Fine. JD33501 | $75.00 |
| [Stephen King] Wood, Rocky and Brooks, Justin. Stephen King: The Non-Fiction. Baltimore, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2008, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisher's slipcase, this is No. 538 of 200 copies signed by both authors, published at $75. Fine, unread. JD36746 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Woodward, Robert H. The Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University: A Descriptive Catalogue. San Jose, San Jose State University, 1985, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Precedes the hardcover issue by several months, with a note from the research center noting that the casebound edition would in fact be late, with a foreword by Robert DeMott, then director of the research center, photo illustrated. Fine. JD29024 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wouk, Herman. Aurora Dawn. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1265 in this important series, Author's First Book, a 20th Century story written in the manner of an 18th Century novel, 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. JD36011 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wright, Richard. Native Son. "Life", April 7, 1941, self-wrappers. Softcover. This magazine appearance by Wright is subtitled "Best-Selling Novel Is Turned Into Tense Drama Strikingly Staged by Orson Welles". Very good. JD509 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wylie, Philip. Fish and Tin Fish. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-19 in this important series, fishing stories featuring Crunch Adams and his mate, Desperate, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD36957 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wylie, Philip. Salt Water Daffy. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. Q-21 in this important series, fishing stories featuring Crunch Adams and Des Smith, includes the title story and six others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32166 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wylie, Philip. Selected Short Stories of Philip Wylie. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-8 in this important series, a paperback original, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34866 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Young, Roland, Smith, Thorne, and others. Thorne Smith: His Life and Times. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1934, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. Subtitled "With a note on his books & a complete bibliography," includes an interview with Smith by Roland Young, Smith himself offers Wherein the Author Is Permitted to Speak, finished with the Smith bibliography, illustrated a touch by Young, but mostly by Herbert Roese. Fine. JD33211 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Zaller, Robert. The Cliffs of Solitude. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled A Reading of Robinson Jeffers, with frontispiece photo of Jeffers, includes a Jeffers chronology, this copy Inscribed by Zaller to Eleanor L. Schwartz, laid in loosely is an autographed letter signed by Zaller to Ms. Schwartz in its original mailing enveloped addressed by Zaller, this is not a print-on-demand abomination. Fine. JD30521 | $45.00 |
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