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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] Bogardus, Ralph F. and Hobson, Fred (editors). Literature at the Barricades, the American Writer in the 1930s. University, University of Alabama Press, 1984, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Includes Steinbeck, the People and the Party by Sylvia Jenkins Cook, with a prospectus for the book and a letter from the Press presenting this copy. As new in publisher's shrink wrap. JD28901 |  $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Boswell, Robert. Dancing in the Movies. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1986, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, winner of the Iowa School of Letters Award for short fiction, one of only 1,500 copies. Very fine. JD5849 | $65.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Bournoutian, George A. A History of the Armenian People. Costa Mesa, Mazda Publishers, 1994, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is Vol. II covering 1500 A.D. to the present, with 25 maps and 16 plates. Fine. JD33777 | $50.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Bowles, Ella Shannon. Handmade Rugs. Boston, Little, Brown, n.d. (1927), first edition. This is the advanced state of the dust jacket only (there is no book), rear dj flap is blank. Some creases, else fine. JD211 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Boyle, Kay. Avalanche. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. I-241 in this important series, "a novel of love and espionage," with a note about the author at the end, this was required reading for bomber pilots before they flew into action so that they would have some understanding of the political situation in occupied France if they were shot down or forced to bail out, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. JD33922 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Boyle, Kay. Avalanche. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. I-241 in this important series, "a novel of love and espionage," with a note about the author at the end, this was required reading for bomber pilots before they flew into action so that they would have some understanding of the political situation in occupied France if they were shot down or forced to bail out, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Bright and beautiful, at least very good plus. JD34214 | $65.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Braithwaite, Bruce. The Films of Marlon Brando. NY, The Confiscian Press/Beaufort Books, 1982, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This concentrates more on his early and late films, but it does include a section on his middle period, including his work in John Steinbeck's Viva Zapata!, page 72. Fine. JD28882 | $15.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Braley, Berton. Morgan Sails the Caribbean. NY, Macmillan, 1934, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Jacket illustrated by Artzybasheff, frontispiece portrait of Henry Morgan, Braley writes of Morgan in ballad, and, in his prefatory comments, thanks John Steinbeck for his conscious and subconscious contributions that resulted from Braley's having read Steinbeck's first book, Cup of Gold, the book also prints a letter from Steinbeck to Braley regarding this subject, this was Steinbeck's first book contribution, Goldstone & Payne B1, Morrow 306, with a b&w photo of Braley laid in loosely. Very good in a clipped jacket with tape reinforcements to verso. JD29295 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Branch, Edgar M. (editor). Clemens of the Call. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Branch also provides the preface, pictorial endpapers, the book collects 200 stories written by Clemens while a reporter for the San Francisco "Call" newspaper. Fine in a near fine jacket. JD31708 | $30.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Brand, Max. Gunman's Gold. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 715 in this important series, a Western, Max Brand was a pseudonym of Frederick Faust who was killed on the Italian Front in May of 1944, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34950 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Brand, Max. Riders of the Plains. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-21 in this important series, a Western novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34412 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Brand, Max. The Secret of Dr. Kildare. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. K-5 in this important series, story of a young surgeon, with a note about the author (Frederick Faust, using his Max Brand pseudonym) at the end, source for the TV series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34697 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Brandt, Sgt. Frank (editor). Cartoons for Fighters. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 740 in this important series, "laughs from G. I. publications," more than 350 cartoons and gags, it also includes drawings by Walt Disney and Milt Caniff, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD33722 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Brandt, Sgt. Frank (editor). Cartoons for Fighters. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 740 in this important series, "laughs from G. I. publications," more than 350 cartoons and gags, it also includes drawings by Walt Disney and Milt Caniff, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34446 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Brautigan, Richard. Five Poems. Berkeley, Serendipity Books, 1971, first edition. A broadside with five poems, created as a keepsake for the International Antiquarian Book Fair in 1971, c.11X17 inches, includes A Legend of Horses, Toward the Pleasure of a Reconstituted Crow, A Moth in Tucson, Arizona, Death Like a Needle, and Heroine of the Time Machine. Fine. JD115 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Brautigan, Richard. The Hawkline Monster. NY, Simon and Schuster, Sept. 9, 1974, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Review Copy with review slip, jacket designed by Wendell Minor, photograph of Brautigan on rear cover by John Fryer. Fine. JD3211 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Brautigan, Richard. The San Francisco Weather Report. n.p. (San Francisco), G. (Graham) Mackintosh, n.d. (1968), first edition. A broadside poem, first issue, originally issued free of charge on San Francisco street corners, c.8X13 inches, printed on cheap stock, cheap wine and Brautigan's poetry got a lot of hippies laid in the wonderful, turbulent '60s. Aged, else fine. JD65 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Brautigan, Richard. Willard And His Bowling Trophies. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, truly an "uncorrected proof" with reproduced hand pagination, etc., with the ownership sticker of the Murray Pollinger agency affixed to front, Pollinger's agency was one of the leading agents in London, it used this copy to offer the United Kingdom rights to this "preverse mystery". Some soiling to covers and marks, such as dates, etc., very good. JD88 | $100.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Brickell, Herschel (editor). O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1942. NY, Literary Guild, 1942, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes John Steinbeck's How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. S., pages 259-272, text from Harper's Magazine, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Wallace Stegner's Two Rivers which is Signed by Stegner, also includes Kay Boyle, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, and others. Fine in a very good jacket. JD29370 | $150.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Bromfield, Louis. The World We Live In. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-32 in this important series, short stories, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD34423 | $12.50 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Bronson, Orval. Burning Brightly. Nevada City, Orval Bronson, 2000, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. No. 209 of 1,000 numbered copies printed on acid-free paper, this is a study of plays written by John Steinbeck, includes performance data, cast information, performance and production photos, etc., this copy Signed by Bronson. Very fine. JD29430 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Brooke, Rupert. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition , wrappers. Softcover. No. 776 in this important series, a paperback original, biographical notes by Margaret Lavington, this soldier poet lost his life in World War I, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34482 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Brooks, George S. Block That Bride And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1064 in this important series, a paperback original, stories originally published in "Saturday Evening Post," "Collier's," and "Liberty," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD35091 | $15.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Brown, Dan. The Da Vinci Code. NY, Doubleday, 2003, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A thrilling novel and a runaway best seller that is the author's breakthrough book, with all the first issue points, source for the film that starred Tom Hanks, Ian McKellan, and Audry Tautou, directed by Ron Howard. Fine. JD6572 | $100.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] (Brown, Edmund G. "Pat"). Photo. n.p., n.p., n.d. (c.1965), first edition. A c.7X9-inch b&w photo of Brown while governor of California, now housed in a black wood and glass frame, Inscribed by Brown ("To/Sidney E. McGow(?)/With sincere/best wishes/Edmund G. Brown/Governor"). Fine. JD31249 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Brown, John Mason (editor). The Ladies' Home Journal Treasury. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1956, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes contributions by Rudyard Kipling, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Thompson Seton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, A. A. Milne, Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Jessamyn West, and many others, including John Steinbeck who offers Over There, pages 288-291, Goldstone & Payne B91, Morrow 348. Minor age, fine. JD29588 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Brown, Sharon (editor). Present Tense. NY, Harcourt, Brace, 1947, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. This revised edition is three volumes in one, originally published as a three-volume set in 1941, includes John Steinbeck's Two for a Penny, brief introduction and text pages 507-514, text from The Grapes of Wrath, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes William Faulkner, Pearl Buck, Thomas Wolfe, Aldous Huxley, and others. Fine in a very good plus jacket. JD29528 | $30.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Browne, J. Ross. Muleback to the Convention. San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1950, first edition. His letters while a reporter at the California constitutional convention at Monterey, CA September-October 1849, with a lengthy introduction, one of 400 copies printed at The Black Vine Press by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen. Fine in a plain paper dust jacket with title and publisher carefully and beautifully hand lettered along its spine panel. JD33237 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Browning, Robert. The Poems of Robert Browning. Norwalk, Easton Press, 1979, first edition thus. Full leather, AEG, gilt designs, hubbed spine, moire endpapers, ribbon place marker, poems selected, edited, and introduced by C. Day Lewis, illustrated with wood engravings by Peter Reddick, including a frontispiece color portrait of the author. Fine. JD33804 | $15.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Bryant, William Cullen. The Little People of the Snow. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1873, first edition, first printing. Illustrated from designs by Alfred Fredericks, engraved by A. Bobbett, AEG, beveled green cloth, ornately decorated in black and gilt, this copy Inscribed by Bryant with lines from page 29 (___"When the power of Frost/Locks up the motions of the living frame/The victim passes to the realm of Death/Through the dim gate of Sleep."___/William Cullen Bryant/January 11th, 1873.___), Bryant has changed the word "porch" in the printed part of this stanza to "gate". Very good. JD31556 | $350.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Buckley, Christopher. Wry Martinis. Washington, D. C., The Legacy Project, 2003, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. This is the fifth 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, condensed from the original edition, this book is done in the same manner as the original ASEs. Fine, unread. JD31711 | $10.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Buelteman, Robert. Watershed. n.p. (Washington, D. C.), n.p., 1996, first edition. A poster that measures c.22X30 inches and which advertises a conference sponsored by poet laureate Robert Hass, The Orion Society, and The Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. April 15-20, 1996 subtitled Writers, Nature and Community, participants listed included Buelteman, whose 1988 b&w photo of Archalarius Ranch adorns the top half of the poster, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, Hass, William Kittredge, Peter Matthiessen, and a host of others, this copy is briefly inscribed by Buelteman. Minor wear, else fine. JD31278 | $50.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Bullen, J. S. Reviews. Fort Collins, Western American Literature, Spring 1971, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Includes Bullen's review of Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, 60-62. Fine. JD27158 | $10.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Bulow, Ernie. Navajo Taboos. Gallup, Buffalo Medicine Books, 1991, first edition, first printing. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, this is No. 34 of 50 copies specially bound and slipcased that are Signed by Bulow, also Signed by Tony Hillerman who offers the foreword and Navajo artist Ernest Franklin who illustrates the book, Bulow provides his own introduction, with notes and a bibliography at the end, includes original art by Franklin issued with the book, but not bound in the book, the artwork in question appears on page 180 showing an Navajo man weaving at a loom, weaving by Navajo men is a taboo, hence the illustration. Fine. JD33427 | $350.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Bulow, Ernie. Uncle Ernie's Guide to Old Time Rodeo. Albuquerque, Sidewinder Publishing, 2008, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Bulow provides his own introduction, illustrated in color by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin throughout, this copy Signed by Bulow and Franklin. Fine. JD33431 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Bulow, Ernie. Uncle Ernie's Guide to Old Time Rodeo. Albuquerque, Sidewinder Publishing, 2008, first edition, first printing. Specially bound, issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, this is No. 3 of 50 signed and numbered copies Signed by both Bulow and Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, Bulow provides his own introduction, illustrated in color by Franklin throughout, who also provides a full-color, full-page original illustration of an Indian riding a bucking buffalo, very scarce thus, with a rodeo dictionary at the end. Fine. JD33494 | $350.00 |
| [Photography] Burkett, Christopher. Intimations of Paradise. Vernonia, West Wind Arts, 1999, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes essays by James Reid and Vincent Rossi, introduction by James Alinder, includes 72 color plates followed by a Wendell Berry poem, an essay (World of Wonder) by Burkett, and his Technique and Approach, this copy lacks the original print (as usual), Signed by Christopher Burkett. Fine. JD31103 | $150.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Burman, Ben Lucien. Steamboat Round the Bend. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1096 in this important series, a novel of life on the lower Mississippi, illustrated with sketches by Alice Caddy, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. About very good. JD35597 | $12.50 |
| [Modern Literature] Burnett, W. R. Adobe Walls. NY, Knopf, 1953, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A novel of the last Apache uprising, jacket painting by William F. Koch, film source. Nearly fine. JD33247 | $65.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Burnett, W. R. Little Caesar. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. G-191 in this important series, a novel and source for the film that starred Edward G. Robinson, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, very scarce. Very good plus. JD35484 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Burnett, Whit and Hallie (editors). 19 Tales of Terror. NY, Bantam Books, January 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. A1550, a paperback original that includes John Steinbeck's The White Quail, 15-25, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B99, not recorded by Morrow, also includes contributions by Isak Dinesen, Lord Dunsany, W. Somerset Maugham, and others, cover art by Tom Hill. Ink name and owner's tick marks on contents page, else fine. JD4714 | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Burnett, Whit and Hallie (editors). 19 Tales of Terror. NY, Bantam Books, January 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. A1550, a paperback original that includes John Steinbeck's The White Quail, 15-25, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B99, not recorded by Morrow, also includes contributions by Isak Dinesen, Lord Dunsany, W. Somerset Maugham, and others, cover art by Tom Hill. Rip from first preliminary, else fine. JD29601 | $10.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Burnett, Whit (editor). Time To Be Young. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 848 in this important series, includes John Steinbeck's The Great Mountains, pages 175-189, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes H. L. Mencken, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, and others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD33481 | $35.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Burnett, Whit (editor). Time To Be Young. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 848 in this important series, includes John Steinbeck's The Great Mountains, pages 175-189, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes H. L. Mencken, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, and others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD34556 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. M-16 in this important series, Author's First Book, a classic fantasy, source for many films, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD35572 | $300.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Burrows, Michael. John Steinbeck and His Films. St. Austell, Cornwall, Primestyle, Ltd., 1970, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Third in the Formative Films series, photo-illustrated, Goldstone & Payne F65, Morrow 614. Corner bump, fine. JD28705 | $50.00 |
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