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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] Fast, Howard. Freedom Road. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-26 in this important series, a historical novel of the Reconstruction period in the South, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34417 |  $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fast, Howard. Patrick Henry And The Frigate's Keel. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 787 in this important series, short stories "of a young nation," 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. JD34493 | $10.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Faulkner, William. A Fable. NY, Random House, 1954, first edition, first printing. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, No. 291 of 1,000 copies Signed by Faulkner, this was the first book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Fine, beautiful copy in a very good slipcase. JD35555 | $1,250.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Faulkner, William. A Rose For Emily And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 825 in this important series, a paperback original for which there was no hardcover, stories selected and with an foreword by Saxe Cummins, one of the most difficult of the Faulkner "A" items, Petersen A22, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32034 | $300.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Faulkner, William. A Rose For Emily And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 825 in this important series, a paperback original for which there was no hardcover, stories selected and with an foreword by Saxe Cummins, one of the most difficult of the Faulkner "A" items, Petersen A22, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32188 | $300.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Faulkner, William. A Rose For Emily And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 825 in this important series, a paperback original for which there was no hardcover, stories selected and with an foreword by Saxe Cummins, one of the most difficult of the Faulkner "A" items, Petersen A22, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Title page with folds and a bit of loosening, else very good. JD33933 | $200.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Faulkner, William. A Rose For Emily And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition , wrappers. Softcover. This is the very rare first issue of this paperback original with an aerial view of the "main floor" of a home on the verso of the title page, this generally unknown issue point is the result of a printer's error as this aerial room map actually belongs to ASE No. 827 (The Indigo Necklace by Frances Crane), this is No. 825 in this important series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, the Library of Congress includes only the usual, recorded state, while Carl Petersen may have had the scarcer first issue, it wasn't noted in the Serendipity catalogue of Petersen's personal Faulkner collection, see Petersen A22, this is one of the most difficult of all Faulkner "A" items, especially in this generally unrecorded first state. Very good. JD34533 | $450.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Faulkner, William. Knight's Gambit. NY, Random House, 1949, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, the title story appears here for the first time, Petersen A25b which notes that this is one of the Faulkner titles that does not state first printing on the verso of the title page, its six detective stories revolve around the character Gavin Stevens, the other stories are Smoke, Monk, Hand Upon the Waters, Tomorrow, and An Error in Chemistry, selected by Ellery Queen as a Queen's Quorum title. Fine in a very good plus jacket. JD31437 | $300.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Fensch, Thomas. Steinbeck and Covici The Story of a Friendship. Middlebury, Paul S. Eriksson, 1979, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Not only does this provide a biography of their friendship and the author-editor relationship, but it also includes enough letters between them to constitute a Steinbeck "A" item, this copy Inscribed by Fensch to noted Steinbeck collector/dealer Jim Johnson at the 1989 Steinbeck Festival in Salinas, the hometown of John Steinbeck, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD20231 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Fensch, Thomas. Steinbeck and Covici The Story of a Friendship. Middlebury, Paul S. Eriksson, 1979, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Not only does this provide a biography of their friendship and the author-editor relationship, but it also includes enough letters between them to constitute a Steinbeck "A" item, this copy Inscribed by Fensch to noted Steinbeck collector Orval Bronson at the 1988 Steinbeck Festival in Salinas, the hometown of John Steinbeck, not recorded by Morrow. Fine in a very good plus jacket. JD29455 | $75.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Fensch, Thomas. Steinbeck and Covici The Story of a Friendship. Middlebury, Paul S. Eriksson, 1979, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Not only does this provide a biography of their friendship and the author-editor relationship, but it also includes enough letters between them to constitute a Steinbeck "A" item, this copy Inscribed by Fensch at the 1988 Steinbeck Festival in Salinas, the hometown of John Steinbeck, not recorded by Morrow. Top edge a bit foxed, else near fine. JD30551 | $85.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fenton, Carroll Lane and Mildred Adams. The Story of the Great Geologists. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1079 in this important series, biographical sketches of 35 leading geologists, from Aristotle to Chamberlin, includes linecut drawings, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Reading creases, very good. JD35106 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Ferber, Edna. Saratoga Trunk. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1111 in this important series, a novel set in Saratoga and New Orleans of the 1880s, source for the film, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD35138 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Fisher, M. F. K. Here Let Us Feast. NY, Viking, 1946, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A Book of Banquets includes an excerpt from John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, pages 457-465, Goldstone & Payne B44, Morrow 330, Fisher's is often thought of as a great food writer, and she is, but is is also a great writer, period. Fine in a very good plus jacket. JD29520 | $100.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fisher, Vardis. The Golden Rooms. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 713 in this important series, a historical novel of imaginative literature, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32353 | $12.50 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fisher, Vardis. The Golden Rooms. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 713 in this important series, a historical novel of imaginative literature, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34948 | $15.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Boy Who Killed His Mother. NY, Neurotica, Winter 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Neurotica was a quarterly edited by G. Legman, this issue has the cover title of The Castration Complex, cover designed by Alvin Lustig, Fitzgerald's piece is printed from the ms. notebooks at Princeton, according to this periodical, he "used to deliver that ballad at parties, his face powdered white, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, and his hands trembling," the issue also includes contributions by Herman Melville, Mason Jordan Mason, and others, this was its final issue, Bruccoli C318. Some age-toning, else fine. JD31575 | $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Diamond As Big As The Ritz And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1043 in this important series, a paperback original, introduction by Louis Untermeyer, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, an elusive Fitzgerald "A" item, it includes the title story, plus Babylon Revisited, May Day, The Rich Boy, Crazy Sunday, Winter Dreams, The Adjuster, Hot and Cold Blood, "The Sensible Thing," and Gretchen's Forty Winks. Very good. JD35076 | $200.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Foley, Martha (editor). Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965. London, Macgibbon & Kee, 1966, first British edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, introduction and text pages 203-213, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Ernezst Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, F. Scottt Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Shirley Jackson, and many others. Fine. JD29677 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fontaine, Robert. The Happy Time. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 910 in this important series, a humorous novel, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD33300 | $12.50 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fontaine, Robert. The Happy Time. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 910 in this important series, a humorous novel, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD34618 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Fontenrose, Joseph. John Steinbeck An Introduction and Interpretation. NY, Barnes & Noble, 1963, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 8 in the American Authors & Critics Series, 1961 photo of Steinbeck as frontispiece, written by one of the most perceptive of Steinbeck's critics, Goldstone & Payne F50, Morrow 597, this copy Inscribed by the author. Near fine. JD28553 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Fontenrose, Joseph. Steinbeck's Unhappy Valley. Berkeley, Joseph Fontenrose, 1981, first edition, dust jacket. Softcover. A study of John Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, by this noted Steinbeck scholar, bound in wrappers with a dust jacket wrapped around, this copy with two Autographed Letters Signed from Fontenrose and a Typed Letter Signed by him laid in loosely, one of 380 copies. Top and fore edges foxed a bit, else fine. JD29006 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Ford, Dan. Pappy: The Life of John Ford. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1979, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Photo-illustrated biography of this famed director by his grandson, includes discussion of John Steinbeck and the film version of his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, which Ford directed, see pages 134, 141-146, and 148, also includes a double-spread photo portrait of the Joad family from his film version, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD28964 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Forester, C. S. Beat to Quarters. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. Q-18 in this important series, first issue, reprinted later in the series as No. 996, a Capt. Hornblower novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34819 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Forester, C. S. The Captain From Connecticut. NY, Armed Services editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 679 in this important series, a historical novel with Forester's first American hero, Capt. Josiah Peabody, 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. JD32334 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Forester, C. S. To The Indies. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 709 in this important series, a historical novel, 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 plus. JD34944 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Forster, E. M. The Hill of Devi. NY, Harcourt, Brace, 1953, first American edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Pictorial endpapers front and rear, with a suite of photographs. One slight corner bump, else fine in a very good plus jacket. JD32975 | $65.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Foster, Alan Dean. Into the Out Of. NY, Warner Books, 1986, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, bound in cobra skin, this is No. 14 of the first 25 copies numbered and Signed by Foster. Fine. JD33122 | $250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Francis, Dick. Bonecrack. London, Michael Joseph, 1971, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Map endpapers front and rear, a racing thriller from a master. One name to front free endpaper, very good in a very nearly fine jacket. JD33111 | $35.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Frank, Phil. Orwell T. Catt. first edition. An original drawing by cartoonist Phil Frank of one of his characters from the comic strip Farley, Orwell T. Catt was head of the feral cat colony in Golden Gate Park as part of Frank's "Farley" comic strip, he normally wore a shirt that read "Feral and Proud," in this drawing Orwell T. Catt is shown with bulging eyes wearing a shirt that reads "Feral And Pruned," referring to his being neutered, the drawing is Inscribed by Phil Frank to David and Valerie (Belch), David Belch was head of public relations for the San Francisco Public Library for many years, Farley began as Travels With Farley as a nationally syndicated comic strip in 1975, but a few years later Frank took it out of syndication and made it a local feature in the "San Francisco Chronicle" daily newspaper where it remained for 22 years until Frank died in 2007, Farley was the only local daily comic strip in the country where it satirized the San Francisco Bay Area and California with a cast of characters that included Farley, Orwell T. Catt, Bruce, Floyd, Alphonse, Franklin, Hilda, and others, now housed in a glass and wood frame. Although not examined outside the frame, the drawing appears to be fine. JD31213 | $250.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Franken, Rose. Another Claudia. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 701 in this important series, a novel in which Claudia comes of age, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32741 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Franken, Rose. Another Claudia. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 701 in this important series, a novel in which Claudia comes of age, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34936 | $10.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Franzen, Jonathan. Strong Motion. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. His second book, rear jacket blurb by David Foster Wallace . Fine in a near fine jacket. JD33236 | $45.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. First issue with "man-woman" instead of "mad-woman" on page 25, line 16, with the front cover sticker by John Berendt, Author's First Novel and a runaway bestseller that was the source for the film that starred Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, National Book Award winner, with map endpapers front and rear of the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Fine. JD33001 | $100.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Freiman, Ray (editor). The Author Looks at Format. NY, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1951, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Includes John Steinbeck's Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books, pages 27-34, Goldstone & Payne B66, Morrow 337, this is a Complimentary Copy from the Institute with its "compliments" card laid in loosely, also includes Pearl Buck, Erskine Caldwell, John Dos Passos, and others. Light extremity wear, else fine. JD29547 | $45.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] French, Warren. Filmguide to The Grapes of Wrath. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1973, first edition. Issued both in wrappers and this very scarce hardcover, the hardcover was issued without dust jacket, French is one of the best of the Steinbeck scholars, this copy Inscribed by the author, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD28744 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] French, Warren. Filmguide to The Grapes of Wrath. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1973, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. French is one of the best of the Steinbeck scholars, issued both in this wrappered edition and a very scarce hardcover, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow 633, this was Graham Wilson's copy, Wilson was the chairman emeritus of the English Department at San Francisco State University and for years was a lecturer at the annual Steinbeck Festival in Steinbeck's hometown of Salinas. Light wear, else fine. JD28745 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] French, Warren. John Steinbeck. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1961, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Second book in Twayne's United States Author's Series, this copy Inscribed by French to Steinbeck bibliophile Jim Johnson at the Nantucket conference on Steinbeck and the environment in May 1992, see Goldstone & Payne F46 which doesn't differentiate between this scarce hardcover and the more common paperbound issue, not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD28546 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fuller, Timothy. Harvard Has A Homicide. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 744 in this important series, Author's First Novel, a mystery, with a note about the author at the end, this was the first contemporary mystery to be serialized in the "Atlantic Monthly," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34450 | $20.00 |
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