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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] Gable, John A. (editor). The Man in the Arena. Washington, D. C., The Legacy Project, 2003, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. LP-6, these are selected speeches, letters and essays by Theodore Roosevelt, with photos and other illustrations, includes an introduction by the editor, this is the sixth in a series of new Armed Services Editions which were originally issued to American GIs from 1943 to 1947 with these new books issued to American soldiers throughout the world through the national, all volunteer initiative of the Legacy Project headed by Andrew P. Carroll, condensed from the original edition, this book is done in the same manner as the original ASEs. Fine, unread. JD34631 |  $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Galati, Frank. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Penguin Books, 1990, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, the script was adapted by Galati from Steinbeck's masterpiece novel, the play by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago won the Tony Award as best Broadway play, very few of these proofs were produced. Fine. JD30216 | $85.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Galati, Frank. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Penguin Books, 1990, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This first trade edition (there was no trade hardcover) is illustrated with photos from the Broadway play production by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago which won the Tony Award for the best Broadway play. Fine. JD30218 | $20.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gamble, Mary Jean S. (editor). East of Eden 1955 Film Notes. Salinas, John Steinbeck Library, 1987, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Researched by Pauline Pearson, includes six sections (the novel, the film version, the filming, the director and cast, the premier, and selected bibliography), includes some (sometimes poorly/cheaply reproduced) photos. Fine. JD35606 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gannett, Lewis. John Steinbeck Personal and Bibliographical Notes. NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Second issue with the erroneous frontispiece attribution (to Stjernstrom) blacked out and with Bo Beskov substituted, Goldstone & Payne F3, Morrow 567. Fine. JD5384 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gannett, Lewis. John Steinbeck Personal and Bibliographical Notes. NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Second issue with the erroneous frontispiece attribution (to Stjernstrom) blacked out and with Bo Beskov substituted, Goldstone & Payne F3, Morrow 567. Fine. JD28465 | $30.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gannett, Lewis. John Steinbeck Personal and Bibliographical Notes. NY, Viking, 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Second issue with the erroneous frontispiece attribution (to Stjernstrom) blacked out and with Bo Beskov substituted, Goldstone & Payne F3, Morrow 567. Very good plus. JD30479 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Gardner, John and Dunlap, Lennis. The Forms of Fiction. NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus. JD29653 | $500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Gardner, John. The Construction of the Wakefield Cycle. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1974, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Issued as part of the Literary Structures series edited by Gardner who was best known as a poet and novelist, but who here shows his chops as an academic. Fine. JD31244 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Garton, Ray. Methods of Madness. Arlington Heights, Dark Harvest, 1990, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisher's wooden slipcase, a story collection by Garton, illustrated by Paul Sonju, this is copy WW of 52 lettered copies Signed by Garton and Sonju. Fine, unread. JD33137 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gassner, John and Nichols, Dudley (editors). Best Film Plays - 1945. NY, Crown, 1946, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes Frank Butler's screenplay for A Medal for Benny in its entirety, includes credits, setting, and text, 589-648, it also includes b&w photos from the film which was based on a story by John Steinbeck and his boyhood friend, Max Wagner, Goldstone & Payne B45, not recorded by Morrow, it also includes the screenplays for Lost Weekend, Spellbound, Double Indemnity (Raymond Chandler), and several others. Very good. JD29519 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gassner, John and Nichols, Dudley (editors). Best Film Plays - 1945. NY, Crown, 1946, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes Frank Butler's screenplay for A Medal for Benny in its entirety, includes credits, setting, and text, 589-648, it also includes b&w photos from the film which was based on a story by John Steinbeck and his boyhood friend, Max Wagner, Goldstone & Payne B45, not recorded by Morrow, it also includes the screenplays for Lost Weekend, Spellbound, Double Indemnity (Raymond Chandler), and several others. Very good. JD31242 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Geismar, Maxwell. Writers in Crisis. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1942, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled The American Novel Between Two Wars, it studies Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, and John Steinbeck, the Steinbeck chapter is entitled John Steinbeck: Of Wrath or Joy?, pages 237-270, Goldstone & Payne F11, not recorded by Morrow. Very good. JD28489 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gibbs, Lincoln R. John Steinbeck, Moralist. Yellow Springs, The Antioch Review, Summer 1942, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. His piece runs right before a differing view by Stanley Edgar Hyman entitled Some Notes on John Steinbeck, pages 172-184 and 185-200, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Library stamp, soiling to rear cover, else very good. JD28426 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Gibbs, Willa. Tell Your Sons. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1202 in this important series, a novel of the Napoleonic Era, 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 plus. JD35999 | $85.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Gilbert, Rudolph. Shine, Perishing Republic. Boston, Bruce Humphries, 1936, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled Robinson Jeffers and the tragic sense in modern poetry, includes a note by the author, also a poet, as well as presenting a previously unpublished letter by Jeffers, the book has six parts, The Poet of Our Time, His Philosophy, Mysticism and Symbolism, Tragedy: An Approach to the Not Self, Attitude Toward Poetry, Civilization and Nature, and ends with Bibliography. Ink name, very good plus. JD30494 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Gillis, William R. Memories of Mark Twain and Steve Gillis. Sonora, The Banner, 1924, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo of Twain, many members of the Gillis clan were friends with Samuel Longhorn Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, they knew him as just one of the boys, William R. Gillis recounts many stories of their adventures with Twain well before he published his first book, in fact, they were the ones who took Twain to Calaveras County to the famous jumping frog competition which resulted in Twain's first book. Front bottom corner bumped, bound now within a Gaylord Bros. Photomount Pamphlet Binder which has some stray marks, else very nice. JD29305 | $45.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Gillis, William R. Memories of Mark Twain and Steve Gillis. Sonora, The Banner, 1924, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo of Twain, many members of the Gillis clan were friends with Samuel Longhorn Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, they knew him as just one of the boys, William R. Gillis recounts many stories of their adventures with Twain well before he published his first book, in fact, they were the ones who took Twain to Calaveras County to the famous jumping frog competition which resulted in Twain's first book, this copy is Signed by William R. Gillis. Very good. JD30662 | $60.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Gillis, William R. Memories of Mark Twain and Steve Gillis. Sonora, The Banner, 1924, second edition, wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo of Twain, many members of the Gillis clan were friends with Samuel Longhorn Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain, they knew him as just one of the boys, William R. Gillis recounts many stories of their adventures with Twain well before he published his first book, in fact, they were the ones who took Twain to Calaveras County to the famous jumping frog competition which resulted in Twain's first book. Water marked, else very good. JD31707 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Gillmor, Frances. Flute of the Smoking Mirror. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1949, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A portrait of Nezahualcoyotl, poet king of the Aztecs, illustrated by Ola Apenes, map endpapers. Fine in a jacket with internal tape reinforcements, but which presents well. JD33139 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gladstein, Mimi. In Search of Steinbeck: A Continuing Journey. "Nova", Sept. 1983, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. 7-9, 12. Fine. JD701 | $10.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Golding, William. Rites of Passage. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. It precedes the first British edition, 1980 Booker award winner by this Nobel laureate. Fine. JD33230 | $35.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Goldstein, Norm. Henry Fonda. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Fonda's photo is featured on the front cover, being a celebration of his life and work, filled with photos from his films, including that of Fonda in his role as Tom Joad in the film version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Fine. JD28782 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Goldstone, Adrian H. and Payne, John R. John Steinbeck A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Adrian H. Goldstone Collection. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1974, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is the Bible of Steinbeck bibliographies, it is a very scarce and collectible book in its own right, one of just 1,200 copies, frontispiece photo of Steinbeck, indispensable. Fine, especially scarce in this condition when both book and jacket are fine. JD27470 | $375.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Goodman, Jack (editor). While You Were Gone. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1178 in this important series, "a report on wartime life in the United States" in a book destined for returning soldiers so that they could acclimate themselves to the new norm, it includes pieces by Paul Gallico, Carey McWilliams, Margaret Mead, James Thurber, etc., slightly condensed, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, in the BOOKS section authored by Lewis Gannett, the New York critic writes interestingly and sympathetically about John Steinbeck and the ill-conceived criticism of Steinbeck for his novel The Moon Is Down, pages 409-410, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, this was the last book in the series issued in the horizontal format. Very good. JD35206 | $45.00 |
| [Stephen King] Grant, Charles L. (editor). Shadows. Garden City, Doubleday, 1978, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes original stories by the likes of Stephen King who contributes Nona, also includes material by Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Dennis Etchison, Bill Pronzini, and others. Bottom edge with speckled remainder spray, else fine. JD36784 | $75.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gray, James. John Steinbeck. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1971, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 94 in the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers series, with a bibliography in the rear, Goldstone & Payne F69, Morrow 620, Review Copy with review slip, very scarce thus. Fine. JD28718 | $20.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Green, Frederick Davis. Armenian Massacres. Philadelphia, International Publishing Co., 1896, first edition. Red decorated cloth with gilt titles, also titled The Sword of Mohammed, "a complete and thrilling account of the terrible atrocities and wholesale murders committed in Armenia by Mohammedan fanatics,including a full account of the Turkish people, their history, government, manners, customs and strange religious beliefs," together with "The Mohammedan reign of terror in Armenia," edited by Henry David Northrup, with nearly 100 engravings "showing the characteristics of the people, massacres, etc." introduction by Josiah Strong, this is NOT a print-on-demand abomination. Front hinge broken, front board nearly separated from the spine. JD33775 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Greenberg, Martin (editor). The Tony Hillerman Companion. NY, HarperCollins, 1994, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A comprehensive guide to his life and work, includes a Hillerman chronology, a book-by-book guide to his detective fiction, an interview with him, a piece on the Navajo Nation, a guide to Native American clans in his fiction, a concordance of his characters, a selection of his nonfiction, and a selection of his fiction, map endpapers, this copy Signed by Hillerman, this copy with a Signed full-page color original illustration by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin that is comprised of a portrait of Hillerman plus recurring Navajo motifs that have appeared in his works, such as a coyote and an eagle, very scarce thus, with slipcase. Fine. JD33502 | $325.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Greenberg, Martin (editor). The Tony Hillerman Companion. NY, HarperCollins, 1994, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A comprehensive guide to his life and work, includes a Hillerman chronology, a book-by-book guide to his detective fiction, an interview with him, a piece on the Navajo Nation, a guide to Native American clans in his fiction, a concordance of his characters, a selection of his nonfiction, and a selection of his fiction, map endpapers, this copy Signed by Hillerman. Fine. JD33509 | $125.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Greene, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-22, just the 22nd book in this important series, Greene calls it an "entertainment" while others call it literature of terror and suspense, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, a very scarce book. Very good. JD36265 | $125.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Greene, Joseph and Abell, Elizabeth. Husbands and Lovers. NY, Bantam Books, 1949, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 742, a paperback original, includes John Steinbeck's The Harness, pages 207-223, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. Somerset Maugham, Mary Austin, and others, cover art by Ben Stahl. Very nearly fine, just the slightest of wear, especially scarce in this condition. JD29536 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Grew, Joseph C. Report From Tokyo. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-2, just the second title issued in this important series, this "message to the American people" came from the U. S. Ambassador to Japan from 1932-1941, Grew also provides the preface, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD36259 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Grimm, Wilhelm. Dear Mili. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "An old tale" newly translated by Ralph Manheim, illustrated in color by Maurice Sendak. Fine. JD35683 | $65.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gross, John and Hayman, Lee Richard. John Steinbeck: A Guide to the Collection of the Salinas Public Library. Salinas, Salinas Public Library, 1979, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. One of 800 copies, the true first edition, precedes the hardcover edition, this is one of the great Steinbeck collections now well hidden at the National Steinbeck Center, Morrow 654, this was Dr. Jacob J. Foster's copy Inscribed to him by Gross. Fine. JD5423 | $45.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Gross, John and Hayman, Lee Richard. John Steinbeck: A Guide to the Collection of the Salinas Public Library. Salinas, Salinas Public Library, 1979, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This wrappered edition precedes the hardcover issue, it is one of 800 copies, Morrow 654, although not called for, this copy has been Inscribed by Hayman. Fine, unread. JD29034 | $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Gruber, Frank. Peace Marshal. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-12, just the 12th book issued in this important series, a Western, reprinted later in the series as S-6, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, very scarce. Very good. JD36253 | $150.00 |
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