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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] Irish, William. After-Dinner Story. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-20 in this important series, a collection of six horror and mystery stories, including the title story, Rear Window, and Marihuana, William Irish is the pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Spine completely faded and general wear, else very good. JD32654 |  $50.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Irish, William. Deadline At Dawn. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 878 in this important series, a mystery by Cornell Woolrich writing at William Irish, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34586 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Irving, John. The Cider House Rules. NY, William Morrow, 1985, first edition, clear plastic dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisher's slipcase, No. 204 of 250 specially bound copies Signed by Irving, source for the film, with the author's printed notes at the end, this signed/limited edition comes from the publisher, there was another signed/limited edition of greater quantity issued by the Book of the Month Club. Fine, tight copy in a nearly fine slipcase, curiously, the clear plastic dust jacket is toned along the spine panel, but not the book itself. JD35632 | $450.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Jackson, Charles. The Lost Weekend. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1041 in this important series, a novel and source for the film that starred Ray Milland and Jane Wyman, it reprints ASE No. O-19 issued earlier in the series in 1945, 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. JD35068 | $20.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Jackson, Joseph Henry. Notes on a Drum. NY, Macmillan, 1937, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Map endpapers, these are travel sketches in Guatemala, with several suites of photographs, this copy Inscribed and dated in the month and year of publication by the author who was then the literary critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, it includes a blurb on the rear jacket panel by John Steinbeck about Jackson's earlier book, Mexican Interlude, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine in a very good jacket. JD29291 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Jackson, Joseph Henry. Why Steinbeck Wrote The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1940, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First issue, one of 12,000 copies, No. 1 in the series of Booklets for Bookmen, with its original envelope, later reprinted as A History of The Grapes of Wrath (that being one of 3,000 copies), this booklet also includes Did Shakespeare Translate The Decameron by Carter Meredith and Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt and I by A. A. Milne, Goldstone & Payne G23, Morrow 572. Near fine. JD28484 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Jackson, Joseph Henry. Why Steinbeck Wrote The Grapes of Wrath. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1940, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First issue, one of 12,000 copies, No. 1 in the series of Booklets for Bookmen, later reprinted as A History of The Grapes of Wrath (that being one of 3,000 copies), this booklet also includes Did Shakespeare Translate The Decameron by Carter Meredith and Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt and I by A. A. Milne, Goldstone & Payne G23, Morrow 572. Fine. JD30935 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Jaffe, Bernard. Men of Science in America. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 809 in this important series, "the role of science in the growth of our country," 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. JD34515 | $10.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] James M. Dourgarian. Wallace Stegner. Walnut Creek, James M. Dourgarian, c.1990, first edition. An 8X10-inch color glossy photograph of Stegner sitting in a chair in his California home, he looks directly into the camera, the author won both the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and the National Book Award (The Spectator Bird), signed on the verso by the photographer. As new. JD30664 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] James, Henry. Daisy Miller And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-18 in this important series, a paperback original, selected stories, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32316 | $17.50 |
| [Armed Services Editions] James, Henry. Daisy Miller And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-18 in this important series, a paperback original, selected stories, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34409 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] James, Marquis. Andrew Jackson The Border Captain. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. K-23 in this important series, a Pulitzer Prize winner, with a note about the author at the end, illustrated with maps, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34283 | $15.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Jeffers, John Robinson. Flagons and Apples. Los Angeles, Grafton Publishing Company, 1912, first edition, first printing. This slim hardcover, the Author's First Book, was issued without a dust jacket, Jeffers paid to have the book published in an edition of 500 copies, with the vast majority of those sold to a used book store, his authorial credit uses his full name (later shortened to just Robinson Jeffers). Very good minus with general soiling and age, Holmes Book Company of Los Angeles stamp to front free endpaper, the word "Apples" on the spine label is mostly obscured, the front cover label has tiny chipping around the edges, not affecting any of the text or the decoration. JD30500 | $500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Jeffers, Robinson. Californians. n.p., Cayucos, 1971, first edition. This hardcover was issued without dust jacket in an edition of 500 (of which 50 were signed and specially bound) designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh, includes a lengthy introduction by William Everson as well as a note about places at the end. Fine. JD30490 | $85.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Jeffers, Robinson. RJ on RJ Robinson Jeffers and the Subtle Passion. Los Angeles, Zamorano Club, 1996, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. One of 125 copies of this string-tied keepsake printed for a joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburge Clubs, designed and printed by William Erik Voss at the Lyceum Press, photo of Jeffers used as frontispiece provided by the Tilman Place Bookshop, San Francisco, it reprints Jeffers reviewing his own first book, Flagons and Apples, in the Los Angeles Times. Fine. JD30533 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Jin, Ha. Waiting. NY, Pantheon, 1999, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A novel, his breakthrough book, winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner award. Fine, unread. JD33249 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Johnson, Gerald W. A Little Night Music. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 735 in this important series, "discoveries in the exploitation of an art," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32357 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Johnson, Gerald W. A Little Night Music. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 735 in this important series, "discoveries in the exploitation of an art," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34441 | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Johnson, Lyndon Baines. The Inaugural Address of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, January 20, 1965, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. With frontispiece photo portrait of LBJ with a facsimile of his signature, although he is not credited as such, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck contributed to this speech, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne. Fine. JD27351 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Jordan, Rene. Marlon Brando. NY, Pyramid Publications, 1973, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Issued as part of Pyramid's Illustrated History of the Movies series, it mentions John Steinbeck, who wrote the screenplay, and the film Viva Zapata!, pages 42-46, 67, 127, profusely illustrated with photos from Brando's films, including Viva Zapata!, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD28740 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Joy, Neill R. (compiler). Joseph Conrad Catalogue. Hamilton, NY, Philobiblon, 1974, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A catalogue of a memorial exhibition of the mss., letters, editions, and memorabilia of Joseph Conrad in the Everett Needham Case Library at Colgate University, Philobiblon is the journal of the Friends of the Colgate University Library, the exhibition opened Aug. 3, 1974 marking the half centenary of the author's death, it closed on Nov. 30, 1974 marking the date of issue of his last complete work of fiction, with its errata slip, it begins with a brief biography of Conrad, followed by a description of the 41 items listed, illustrated. Minor age-toning to wrappers, else fine. JD31449 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinlay. Gentle Annie. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), second issue, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-14 in this important series, first issue, it reprints ASE B-38 issued in 1943, a frontier 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. JD34405 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinley. Author's Choice. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 813 in this important series, selected short stories, abridged, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34519 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinley. Author's Choice. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 813 in this important series, selected short stories, abridged, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD34520 | $10.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Karanian, Matthew and Kurkjian, Robert. Edge of Time Traveling in Armenia & Karabagh. Washington, D. C., Stone Garden Productions, 2001, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Illustrated with color photographs. Fine. JD33869 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Karig, Commander Walter and Kelley, Lt. Wellbourn. Battle Report. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-31 in this important series, Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea, with 13 maps, a narrative of the American Navy, prepared from official sources, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD34422 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Karsh, Yousuf. Faces of Our Time. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1971, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Filled with the incredible portraits by this famed Armenian photographer who also provides text and an introduction to his many subjects such as Pablo Casals, Marc Chagall, Sir Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, John F. Kenendy, Martin Luther King, W. Somerset Maugham, Georgia O'Keefe, Pablo Picasso, Tennessee Williams, and John Steinbeck, among many others, the Steinbeck photo and introduction on pages 189-191, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD28771 | $125.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Kazan, Elia. America America. London, Collins, 1963, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, introduction by S. N. Behrman, rear jacket panel with a blurb by John Steinbeck, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine in a very good plus jacket. JD29655 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Kazan, Elia. America America. NY, Stein & Day, 1962, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, Review Copy with Review slip, includes front jacket panel blurbs by James Baldwin, Archibald MacLeish, Harold Clurman, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Steinbeck, Kazan directed both Steinbeck's Viva Zapata! and East of Eden, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD29661 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Kazan, Elia. Elia Kazan A Life. NY, Knopf, 1988, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof of his autobiography, includes material on author John Steinbeck, his friend, for whom he directed Viva Zapata! and East of Eden. Fine. JD28940 | $45.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Kazin, Alfred. On Native Grounds. Garden City, Doubleday, 1956, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. This is the first Anchor Book edition, an abridged version with a new postscript by Kazin in his study of American prose from 1890 which was originally published in 1942, the book quotes and mentions John Steinbeck on pages 22, 77, 288, 304-310, 346, and 407, neither this edition or the original were recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good plus. JD28496 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Keats, John. Selected Poems of John Keats. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-2 in this important series, a paperback original, edited and with an introduction 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 plus. JD32078 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Keats, John. Selected Poems of John Keats. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-2 in this important series, a paperback original, edited and with an introduction 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. JD32295 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Keats, John. Selected Poems of John Keats. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-2 in this important series, a paperback original, edited and with an introduction 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 plus. JD34854 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kelland, Clarence Budington. Arizona. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 707 in this important series, it reprints ASE No. I-255 published earlier in the series in 1944, a Western and film source, 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. JD34942 | $15.00 |
| [Photography] Kenna, Michael. A Twenty Year Retrospective. Tokyo, Ambient Foto 2, 1994, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Foreword (Beneath the Silver) by Ruth Bernhard, introduction by Peter C. Bunnell, followed by 130 b&w studies, this copy signed and dated by Michael Kenna. Fine. JD31118 | $200.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Kennedy, John F. To Turn The Tide. NY, Harper & Bros., 1962, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. "The goals of President Kennedy's first legislative year, as revealed in his statements and addresses from his election through the 1961 adjournment of Congress" as edited by John W. Gardner, foreword by Carl Sandburg, with a special introduction by President Kennedy, this copy bears JFK's secretarily signed presentation ("With very best/wishes/John Kennedy"), this was Charles de Gaulle's copy, included with the book is a copy of orders from the United States Information Service, dated Jan. 25, 1962, stating "The Agency is air shipping (via diplomatic pouch) Special Attention PAO one autographed copy/of President Kennedy's To Turn the Tide. This book is intended for personal/presentation by the Ambassador at his discretion to:/President Charles de Gaulle/Please alert your mail room to make certain that this inscribed book/is brought to your attention promptly upon receipt," it goes on to request a report on the presentation including local publicity. Book and jacket are fine, USIS order directing this copy for presentation to Charles de Gaulle has one tiny corner chip, not affecting any text, else fine. JD30942 | $4,500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Khayyam, Omar. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Norwalk, Easton Press, 1976, first edition thus. Full leather, AEG, gilt designs, hubbed spine, moire endpapers, ribbon place marker, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Arthur Szyk including the color frontispiece, pages are unopened. Fine. JD33864 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Kinnard, Clark (editor). Various Temptations. NY, Avon, 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-109, a paperback original, includes John Steinbeck's The Crapshooter, pages168-171, text from the New York Herald-Tribune, Goldstone & Payne B88, Morrow 347, also includes Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Robert Penn Warren, and others. Fine, especially scarce in this condition. JD29584 | $25.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Kinnard, Clark (editor). Various Temptations. NY, Avon, 1955, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-385, it reprints Avon No. T-109, includes John Steinbeck's The Crapshooter, pages168-171, text from the New York Herald-Tribune, Goldstone & Payne B88, Morrow 347, also includes Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Robert Penn Warren, and others. Fine, especially scarce in this condition. JD29593 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kober, Arthur. My Dear Bella. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. O-8 in this important series, humorous sketches, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. JD34752 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kober, Arthur. Thunder Over the Bronx. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 697 in this important series, humorous sketches, with a note about the author at the end, introduction by Dorothy Parker, illustrated with cartoons by Hoff, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34932 | $12.50 |
| [Modern Literature] Koontz, Dean R. The House of Thunder. Arlington Heights, Dark Harvest, 1988, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisher's slipcase, illustrated by Phil Parks, No. 310 of 550 copies Singed by Koontz and Parks, this was originally written by Koontz using the Leigh Nichols pseudonym. Fine, unread. JD33123 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Koontz, Dean R. The Servants of Twilight. Arlington Heights, Dark Harvest, 1989, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisher's slipcase, originally published under Koontz's pseudonym Leigh Nichols, illustrated by Phil Parks, this de luxe edition is No. 318 of 450 numbered copies Signed by both Koontz (as Koontz) and Parks. Fine, unread. JD33089 | $125.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Kozlenko, William (editor). Men and Women. NY, Lion Books, 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 117, a paperback original, includes John Steinbeck's Two Sisters, pages 11-21, text from The Pastures of Heaven, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Sherwood Anderson, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Sinclair Lewis, Roald Dahl, and others. Very good plus. JD29564 | $15.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Krauss, Ruth. A Hole Is To Dig. NY, Harper & Bros., 1952, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A first book of first definitions illustrated (charmingly) by Maurice Sendak, Sendak illustrates internally as well as on both endpapers and the dust jacket, while this is a second issue with Grr-r-r on (unpaginated) page 23, it retains the $1.50 price on the jacket, the teal green spine on the book, and the 30-70 code on the front jacket flap. Very good. JD28122 | $125.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Krauss, Ruth. I'll Be You And You Be Me. NY, Harper & Bros., 1954, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak internally as well as on both endpapers and dust jacket, with all the proper first edition points ($1.75 price on jacket with both 30-70 No. 5226A code on front jacket flap and No. 5227A code on rear jacket flap). A very pleasing copy. JD28121 | $225.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Krim, Seymour. Shake It For The World, Smartass. NY, Dial Press, 1970, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Review Copy with Review slip, includes several essays by this Beat writer, including a chapter titled "When We Went to John Steinbeck's Funeral Service: This Is What Happened," pages 375-378, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne, Morrow 615. Fine in a near fine jacket. JD28714 | $45.00 |
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