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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] Cain, James M. The Postman Always Rings Twice. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. Q-2 in this important series, first issue, reprinted later in the series as No. 1058 in 1946, a classic novel and source for the film, "his sentences bristle with terror and sensuality," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34803 |  $65.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Caldwell, Erskine. Stories By Erskine Caldwell. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. P-19 in this important series, 24 stories selected and introduced with a critical foreword by Henry Seidel Canby, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD34789 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Campbell, William G. and Bedford, James H. You and Your Future Job. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1081 in this important series, a help book for men and women about to be discharged back into the American workforce, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD35108 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Canby, Henry Seidel. Casuals of the Road. NY, Saturday Review, February 27, 1937, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A review of John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, page 7, Canby praises the book quite highly, photo of Steinbeck by Sonya Noskourak and a quote from the review are featured on the magazine's front cover, this was published on what was Steinbeck's 35th birthday, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Previous owner's ink name, address, and date, else fine. JD28384 | $35.00 |
| [Photography] Caponigro, Paul. Masterworks From Forty Years. Carmel, Photography West Graphics, 1993, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. 60 plates, plus text by David Stroud, one of 5,000 copies, with prospectus laid in loosely, this copy is Signed by Paul Caponigro. Fine. JD31125 | $400.00 |
| [Photography] Caponigro, Paul. Masterworks From Forty Years. Carmel, Photography West Graphics, 1993, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. De luxe edition, issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, 60 plates, plus text by David Stroud, one 600 copies Signed by Paul Caponigro, lacking the original photo (as usual). Fine in a slipcase with two indentations at the slipcase opening. JD31127 | $325.00 |
| [Photography] Caponigro, Paul. Megaliths. n.p. (Boston), Little, Brown, 1986, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This copy Signed by Paul Caponigro, includes 119 plates, followed by site descriptions and a selected bibliography. Fine. JD31060 | $450.00 |
| [Photography] Caponigro, Paul. The Wise Silence. Boston, Little, Brown, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Edited by Terry Reece Hackford, Caponigro provides his own preface, includes 142 plates of his b&w photography, followed by The Wise Silence, an essay by Marianne Fulton, assistant curator of photographic collections at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, a Caponigro chronology follows along with a list of his exhibitions, and a selected bibliography, this copy Signed by Caponigro. Fine in a very good or better jacket. JD31062 | $350.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Capote, Truman. Music for Chameleons. NY, Random House, 1980, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, the first (title) story is like reading white light, one of 350 copies Signed by Capote. Fine in publisher's shrink wrap. JD35625 | $450.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Capote, Truman. One Christmas. NY, Random House, 1983, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, one of 500 copies Signed by Capote, photo of Capote as a young boy sitting with his father affixed to the slipcase. Fine in publisher's slipcase. JD35626 | $500.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Capp, Al. The World of Li'l Abner. NY, Ballantine Books, 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 8, a paperback original, introduction by John Steinbeck which is excerpted on rear cover, foreword by Charles Chaplin, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD29559 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Capp, Al. The World of Li'l Abner. NY, Ballantine Books, 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 8, a paperback original, introduction by John Steinbeck which is excerpted on rear cover, foreword by Charles Chaplin, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good plus. JD30927 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Carlisle, Norman V. and Latham, Frank B. Miracles Ahead!. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1140 in this important series, a look at the postwar world in terms of aviation, electronics, chemistry, and atomic power, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD35168 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Carroll, Andrew (editor). War Letters. NY, Washington Square Press, 2002, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. LP-1, this is the first book in the renewal of the Armed Services Editions issued by the Council on Books in Wartime during World War II, the seven books in this new series were all developed by Carroll and his Legacy Project, a national nonprofit organization that works to preserve American war letters, the book covers the Civil War, World War I and II, the Korean War, and Vietnam to the present day, although the book appears to be well-aged along its edges, it was manufactured that way to make it look as if it too was one of the old-style Armed Services Editions, that aged look was abandoned after publication of this book which was done in the wider-than-tall format of the earlier ASEs, this copy Signed by Andy Carroll. Fine. JD34662 | $30.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Norwalk, Easton Press, 1969, first edition thus. Full leather, AEG, gilt designs, hubbed spine, moire endpapers, ribbon place marker, illustrated by John Tenniel including the frontispiece. Fine. JD33841 | $85.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Carter Jimmy. Keeping Faith. NY, Bantam Books, 1982, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, these are the memoirs of the 39th President of the United States, with b&w photo illustrations, Signed by Jimmy Carter. Some spine discoloration, else fine in a very good slipcase. JD35634 | $250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Carter, Jimmy. An Outdoor Journal. NY, Bantam Books, June 1988, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This book of adventures and reflections is Signed by this former President of the United States. Fine. JD27030 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. D-97 in this important series, a 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 ASEs. Somewhat rumpled, else very good. JD33936 | $40.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Caughey, John and La Ree. California Heritage. Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press, 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. An anthology of history and literature, it includes John Steinbeck's And It Came To Pass, In the Fields of California, pages 453-459, text from The Grapes of Wrath, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, photo-illustrated by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and others, it also includes Robinson Jeffers, Mary Austin, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, William Saroyan, and others, including Wallace Stegner who has Signed his The Bindle Stiff contribution, this is a presentation copy from the authors to California editor and printer J. Wilson McKenney, from his library, with a holographic note from the authors to McKenney laid in loosely. Very good. JD29659 | $75.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Caughey, John W. Their Majesties The Mob. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1960, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This Western Americana historian writes about "the vigilante impulse in America," this is an Author Presentation/Association Copy being inscribed to Western writer and publisher, J. Wilson McKenney, noting that if he had known of McKenney's own work on vigilantes that "it would have stood very well at pages 132-135". Fine. JD30665 | $50.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Cerf, Bennett (editor). Great Modern Short Stories. NY, Modern Library, 1942, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. P4, includes John Steinbeck's The Red Pony, pages 405-469, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and others. Very good. JD29382 | $10.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Cerf, Bennett (editor). Modern American Short Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1050 in this important series, Cerf provides his own introduction, plus critical and biographical notes, includes John Steinbeck's The Raid, pages 267-279, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Willa Cather, Jack London, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, and others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD35083 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Cerf, Bennett (editor). Modern American Short Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1050 in this important series, Cerf provides his own introduction, plus critical and biographical notes, includes John Steinbeck's The Raid, pages 267-279, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Willa Cather, Jack London, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, and others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Tear to front cover, else very good. JD35598 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Chabon, Michael. Wonder Boys. NY, Villard Books, 1995, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. His third book, source for the film that starred Michael Douglas and Tobey McGuire. Fine, unread. JD33203 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Chambliss, Commander William. Boomerang. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. P-2 in this important series, a naval novel of World War II, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD34770 | $12.50 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 751 in this important series, Author's First Book, film source, to say that this is a mystery is wholly inadequate, Bruccoli check list I-6 (with an incorrect date of publication), issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34457 | $175.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Chase, Mary Ellen. Windswept. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. E-142 in this important series, a novel set in Maine, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD34113 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Chekhov, Anton. Two Plays of Anton Chekhov. Norwalk, Easton Press, 1977, first edition thus. Full leather, AEG, gilt designs, hubbed spine, moire endpapers, ribbon place marker, the two plays are The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters, with an introduction by John Gielgud, illustrations by Lajos Szalay including a color frontispiece portrait of the author. Fine. JD33818 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Chesterton, G. K. The Man Who Was Thursday. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 984 in this important series, "a nightmare," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Spine well faded, else very good. JD32881 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Chesterton, G. K. The Man Who Was Thursday. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 984 in this important series, "a nightmare," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD35010 | $45.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Church, Peggy Pond. The Burro of Angelitos. Los Angeles, Suttonhouse Ltd., 1936, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated in color and b&w by Gigi Shaule Johnson, including the color endpapers front and rear, it includes a wrap-around band with a quote from "John Steinbeck Author of Tortilla Flat, "This is a completely charming book! I like it particularly for not 'talking down'....The Author of this story enjoyed it as much as I think children will...that is perhaps the test," this is a Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Book, this is our first copy of this book, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow or Holmes, this is not a print-on-demand abomination. Fine in a near fine price-clipped jacket. JD35614 | $125.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Clark, Kenneth. Civilsation. NY, Harper & Row, 1970, first U. S. edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes numerous color and b&w illustrations. Fine. JD27236 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. The Ox-Bow Incident. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1134 in this important series, a Western (and his first novel), it reprints ASE No. S-24 published earlier in the series in 1945, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. JD35593 | $10.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Clarke, Arthur C. The Songs of Distant Earth. NY, DelRey, 1986, first edition, first printing. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, this is No. 307 of 500 specially bound copies Signed by Clarke. Fine, as new in publisher's shrink-wrap. JD35557 | $450.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Clinton, Bill. My Life. NY, Knopf, 2004, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Autobiography of the 42nd President of the United States, photo-illustrated, first trade edition, Signed on the title page, first state with "failure of my life" in his acknowledgments. Fine. JD35633 | $950.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Cloete, Stuart. Against These Three. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 973 in this important series, a biography of South Africans Paul Kruger, Cecil Rhodes, and Lobengula, maps by Roland Cosimini, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34999 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Clurman, Harold. Famous American Plays of the 1930s. NY, Dell, 1959, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. LX 117, includes John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, pages 297-383, it also incluides William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, Clifford Odets, and others, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD29613 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Coates, Robert M. The Outlaw Years. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-15 in this important series, a history of land pirates of the Natchez Trace, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32684 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Coates, Robert M. The Outlaw Years. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-15 in this important series, a history of land pirates of the Natchez Trace, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34406 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Coburn, Walt . Five Western Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 803 in this important series, a paperback original, includes stories by Coburn and Bennett Foster, Seth Ranger, Johnston McCulley, and Cherry Wilson, with a note about the authors 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. JD34509 | $25.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Colberg, Nancy. Wallace Stegner A Descriptive Bibliography. Lewiston, Confluence Press, 1990, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, introduction by James R. Hepworth, frontispiece photo portrait of Stegner by Leo Holub. Fine. JD2164 | $50.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Colberg, Nancy. Wallace Stegner A Descriptive Bibliography. Lewiston, Confluence Press, 1990, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, introduction by James R. Hepworth, frontispiece photo portrait of Stegner by Leo Holub, this is the definitive Stegner bibliography, one of 1,000 copies, this copy is signed by both Stegner and Colberg at the publication party for this book Nov. 18, 1990 which was held at Stegner's Los Altos, CA home, laid in is a cocktail napkin from that cocktail/publication party which is imprinted in gilt "Wallace Stegner/A Descriptive Bibliography". Minor top edge foxing, else fine, unread. JD35637 | $85.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Collier, John. Green Thoughts And Other Strange Tales. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 871 in this important series, a paperback original, 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. JD34579 | $30.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Committee on College Reading. Good Reading. NY, Penguin Books, 1947, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. P19 in the Pelican series, a descriptive guide to more than 1,000 books, sponsored by the Council of Teachers of English with the help of many well known writers, it gives very brief descriptions, includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and Tortilla Flat, page 130, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow 582. Minor age, near fine. JD28501 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Connell, Richard. Ironies. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 912 in this important series, humorous short stories, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34620 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Conrad, Barnaby. Fun While It Lasted. NY, Random House, 1969, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated, it was Conrad who made John Steinbeck's short story, Flight, into a film, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, he was a matador, restaurateur, novelist, and Sinclair Lewis's secretary. Fine. JD28702 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Jessie. Joseph Conrad As I Knew Him. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Frontispiece illustration of Conrad at age three and one-half, plus two other plates which show his two sons, introduction by Richard Curle, she provides her own preface, Keating 284. Previous owner's name, place, and date, else fine in a jacket with internal tape reinforcements. JD31524 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Jessie. Personal Recollections of Joseph Conrad. London, privately printed, 1924, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. No. 11 of 100 copies Signed by Jessie Conrad, wife of the great novelist, she provides her own preface in which she notes that Conrad approved her recollections shortly before his death, there are three sections (First Days, The Early Years, and Later Days), original red patterned boards with paper spine label, TEG, with original glassine dust jacket, Keating 270. Bit of bubbling to front board, else very nearly fine. JD31516 | $350.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. A Personal Record. NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912, first edition, first printing. Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, published in England as Some Reminiscences, subsequent British editions adopted this American title, includes Conrad's A Familiar Preface, Smith 16, this is Cagle binding A, Cagle A15c, Keating 94. Fine. JD31483 | $250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. A Set of Six. London, Methuen & Co., 1908, first edition, first printing. Original slate-blue cloth with title, author, publisher, and decorations in gilt, front cover in burgundy, with 40-page publisher's catalogue of books for sale at the end dated June 1908, one of 1,500 copies, these short stories originally appear serially, the stories are Gaspar Ruiz, The Informer, The Brute, An Anarchist, The Duel, and Il Conde, Smith 14, Cagle A13a(2), Keating 81. Front cover lettering dulled, some age, else a nearly fine copy. JD31478 | $350.00 |
| [Joseph Conrad] Conrad, Joseph. An Outcast of the Islands. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1896, first American edition, first printing. Conrad's second book, published as part of Appleton's "Town and Country Library Series," with advertisements at the end, lime green cloth with green, red, and gilt decorations and titles, there are textual changes from the British edition that Appleton thought necessary to fit this family series, Keating 6, Cagle A2(b)2. Fine. JD31454 | $600.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Falk Amy Foster To-Morrow Three Stories. NY, McClure, Phillips and Company, 1903, first edition, first printing. Original blind-stamped blue cloth with anchor design, title, author, and publisher in gilt, Falk, Amy Foster, and To-Morrow are the three "other stories" that appeared in Typhoon and Other Stories as published by Heinemann in London in 1903, this is the first separate printing of these three stories in book form, with 10 pages of undated ads at the end, Cagle A8c, Keating 46. Just light wear, very nearly fine. JD31468 | $450.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Last Essays. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1926, first edition, first printing. Original green cloth, a posthumous collection of 20 essays, most of which had appeared previously in limited pamphlet form, frontispiece reproduction of the last page written by Conrad, introduction by Richard Curle, Smith 29, Keating 201, includes a printed flyer from the publisher laid in loosely advertising its Spring 1926 books, including this title. Some foxing, very good. JD31527 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1900, first edition, first printing. First issue, green cloth, title, author, and publisher in gilt on spine, this was his first major novel and one of his most popular and accessible works, one of 2,105 copies, first issue points: "any rate" is printed as one word on page 77, line 5; "keep" is missing after "can" and "cure" should be "cured" on page 226, seven lines from the bottom; "his" is printed low and not aligned with the other words on page 319, last line, Smith 5, Cagle A5a, Keating 25 and 26, now housed in a custom clamshell case. A very handsome, tight copy, far better than usually encountered. JD31458 | $4,500.00 |
| [Joseph Conrad] Conrad, Joseph. Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1904, first American edition, first printing. Original green cloth with front decorated in orange and black with title and author in gilt, Smith 11, Keating 62, bookplate on front pastedown from the A. M. McGregor Home, Tootier McGregor established the A. M. McGregory Home in 1904 in East Cleveland, OH to honor her late husband, Ambrose, a close associate of John D. Rockefeller. Nearly fine. JD31473 | $350.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Notes on Life & Letters. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1921, first edition, first printing. Original dark green cloth, second state with the "S" and the "E" in Tales of the Sea misprint on the Contents page corrected by hand-stamping by the publisher, with Conrad's Author's Note, Cagle A51a(2) second state, Smith 24, Keating 139 . Very good. JD31503 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Notes on Life & Letters. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1921, first edition, first printing. Original dark green cloth, third state with the misprint on the Contents page corrected by a cancel, with Conrad's Author's Note, Smith 24, Keating 140. Nearly fine. JD31505 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Simple Cooking Precepts for a Little House. n.p. (London), n.p. (privately printed), n.d. (1921), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 73 (of 100) copies Signed on the front cover by Joseph Conrad, this is a separate printing of his preface for his wife Jessie's book about cooking which was subsequently published in 1923, Cagle A53, Keating 224, a very scarce book. Fine. JD31504 | $2,000.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Suspense A Napoleonic Novel. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. First trade edition, preceded by a limited edition of 377 copies, Keating 189. Fine in a jacket with minor loss at the extremities. JD31522 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Tales of Hearsay. London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Review Copy with review slip, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, jacket illustration by E. Lucchesi, includes four short stories, they are The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black Mate, all the stories were privately printed originally, this is their first trade publication, Smith 27, Keating 193. Very good. JD31519 | $500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919, first edition, first printing. First issue with line 16-17, page 5 reading "with proper credentials and apparently" that in subsequent issues read "with proper credentials and who," also with 20 titles by Conrad listed opposite the title page which in subsequent editions lists 21 titles, also with the error noted by Keating 126 on lines 6 and 7, page 248, the American edition precedes the British by four months, Cagle A38a(1), Smith 22. Bit of age, very nearly fine. JD31493 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus." Preface. n.p. (London), J. Lovick, n.d. (1902), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Limited to 100 copies of which Conrad destroyed 40, reprinted from the "New Review" of December 1897 although greatly revised, eight stapled pages, page 8 is blank, written between January and August 1897, this separately printed preface announced his artistic creed, it was not reprinted until the second American edition of 1914, Cagle A3f, Keating 13. Slight age toning to pages, staples rusted, else near fine, now housed in a chemise inserted into a beautiful quarter leather slipcase with title and author in gilt. JD31460 | $4,000.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus" A Tale of the Sea. London, William Heinemann, 1898, first British edition, first printing. Slate gray binding with a life preserver in gilt on front cover, his third novel, issued earlier by Dodd, Mead in America under the title The Children of the Sea A Tale of the Forecastle, this copy with 32 pages of ads at the end, undated and with the publisher's spine imprint in uniform small letters (no priority as to the latter), Cagle A3.c.1, binding state c. Some cocking, very good. JD31456 | $750.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920, first edition, first printing. Original blue cloth, it precedes the British edition, Cagle A49a(1), Keating 131. Very good plus. JD31495 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1920, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Original green cloth, it follows the American edition, but includes revisions not found in that edition, back jacket panel includes advertisements for other works by Conrad, Cagle A49b, Keating 133. Bit of age, else very nearly fine. JD31496 | $500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920, first edition, first printing. Original blue cloth, it precedes the British edition, Cagle A49a(1), Keating 131. Very good plus. JD33715 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1923, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. The British edition follows the American signed/limited edition, original green cloth, there are two states of the dust jacket, this copy with the white paper jacket with the title and author shown within the decoration on the front cover, jacket is priced at seven shillings and sixpence, includes all issue points as noted in Smith 25, Keating 180, with a publisher's advertising sheet laid in loosely, one sheet folded to make four pages, the front cover of which features a portrait of Conrad by Bender after a photo of him, with a facsimile of his signature, with text internally about The Rover and advertising other books by Conrad available from the publisher. Very good. JD31508 | $400.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923, first trade edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, first issue with the single quote mark missing before the word "That's" on page 219, seven lines up, Smith 25, Keating 179. Clean, very nearly fine. JD31510 | $300.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent A Simple Tale. London, Methuen & Co., 1907, first edition, first printing. Original red cloth with title, author, publisher, and decorations along the spine in gilt, first issue with "be be" on the last line of page 117 and 40-page publisher's catalogue of books for sale at the end dated September 1907, one of 2,500 copies, film source, filmed as Sabotage in 1936 by Alfred Hitchcock, Cagle A12a1, Smith 13, Keating 73. Solid very good, uncommon in this condition. JD31476 | $3,500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Shadow Line A Confession. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917, first American edition, first printing, dust jacket . Hardcover. Original blue cloth, Cagle A21b.1. Very good in a jacket split along the rear panel/spine seam, but which presents well. JD31492 | $1,250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. The Shadow-Line A Confession. London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1917, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. First issue with March 1917 on copyright page, 18 pages of advertisements in the rear that includes a note about Conrad whose likeness is also featured on the front panel of the jacket, rear jacket cover lists novels by Conrad with text about them, front and rear jacket flaps with text about Conrad, rear flap with blurbs by both H. G. Wells and Jack London, original green cloth with gold and black lettering and decorations, Smith 24, Cagle A21a, Keating 117, 118. Fine in a very good minus jacket. JD31491 | $2,500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Typhoon And Other Stories. London, William Heinemann, 1903, first edition, first printing. Limited to 1,500 copies with the publisher's windmill on the title page and without the words "Reserved for Colonies" on the verso of the title page, it followed the American edition of 1902, but it adds three other stories, Amy Foster, Falk, and To-Morrow, Conrad's final revisions were not included in the American edition, but they are included here, these additional stories appear for the first time, the book was not intended for distribution to the United States, original charcoal slate cloth with title, author, publisher, and life preserver illustration in gilt, includes 32 pages of ads at the end which appears in some copies, but not all, Cagle's binding A with only the top edge trimmed and with 110 mm between "Conrad" and "Heinemann" on the spine, Cagle A8b(1), Smith 9, Keating 42. Very good. JD31462 | $650.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Victory An Island Tale. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915, first edition, first printing. Original dark blue cloth, world map on front endpapers showing the locations of Conrad's novels, the courses of the ships, etc., first issue with all of Smith's points, including the missing quotation mark at the beginning of line 3, page 431, one of 10,000 copies, published six months before the British edition, Smith 20, Cagle A19a(1), Keating 113. Bit of age, nearly fine. JD31489 | $250.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Conrad, Joseph. Victory. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. I-264 in this important series, includes the note to the first edition and an author's note that precede the novel, also includes a note about Conrad 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. JD31878 | $30.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Within The Tides Tales. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916, first American edition, first printing. Original blue cloth, includes The Planter of Malata, The Partner, The Inn of the Two Witches, and Because of the Dollars, Cagle A18b, Keating 110. Bookplate of Pauline H. Rogers signed by her, bit of age, else nearly fine. JD31488 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conrad, Joseph. Youth: A Narrative and Two Other Stories. Edinburgh, William Backwood and Sons, 1902, first edition, first printing. First issue, precedes the American edition by three months, original light green cloth, one of 3,150 copies, 32 pages of ads at the end dated 10/02, includes the title story, The End of the Tether, and, most importantly, Heart of Darkness (The Horror!), Cagle A7a, Keating 35. Owner's ink name and 1902 date, very good. JD31469 | $4,500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Conroy, Pat. The Prince of Tides. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Source for the film that starred Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte. Fine. JD33082 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Corey, Paul. Buy An Acre. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 977 in this important series, a practical, how-to book on how to buy an acre in America's second frontier and build your own country house, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. JD35003 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Corwin, Norman. Selected Radio Plays of Norman Corwin. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-7 in this important series, a paperback original, foreword by Louis Untermeyer, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34358 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Costain, Thomas B. For My Great Folly. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-36 in this important series, a historical novel of England in the early 17th Century, condensed for wartime reading, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34387 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Crow, Carl. The Great American Customer. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1126 in this important series, "the story of invention, mass-production and our prosperity," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD35153 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Cuppy, Will. The Great Bustard And Other People. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 907 in this important series, it reprints ASE No. P-7 published earlier in the series in 1945, humorous sketches, illustrated by William Steig and Jacks, interestingly, there are copies that end with an error being HE END (first issue) rather than THE END (second issue), this copy is the corrected state, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Solid very good. JD34615 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Curwood, James Oliver. The Valley of Silent Men. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. P-12 in this important series, a Western novel (not about Cowboys), issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD33440 | $17.50 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Curwood, James Oliver. The Valley of Silent Men. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. P-12 in this important series, a Western novel (not about Cowboys), issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD34782 | $20.00 |
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