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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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| [Photography] Adams, Ansel. The Print. Boston, Little, Brown, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Written in collaboration with Robert Baker, this is Book 3 in the New Ansel Adams Photography Series, Adams provides his own introduction, includes visualization and the expressive image, darkroom design and equipment, printing materials, proofs and work prints, the fine print, final processing, finishing, and special printing applications. Fine. JD31051 |  $75.00 |
| [Photography] (Adams, Ansel). Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux. Irvine, University of California, Irvine, 1990, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is an exhibition catalogue produced as part of UC, Irvine's 25th anniversary, includes essays by Clark Kerr who commissioned what became Fiat Lux, photos of the UC system which was published in 1967, Nancy Newhall, Beaumont Newhall, Liliane De Cock, and Melinda Wortz, director of the UCI Fine Arts Gallery, followed by the b&w plates, this hardcover is scarce. Fine. JD31108 | $100.00 |
| [Photography] Alinder, Mary Street and Stillman, Andrea Gray (editors). Ansel Adams Letters and Images 1916-1984. Boston, Little, Brown, 1988, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Foreword by Wallace Stegner, this New York Graphic Society Book is Inscribed by Alinder, it includes more than 100 photos plus his letters to Alfred Stieglitz, Jimmy Carter, Dorthea Lange, Edward Weston, and many others. Fine. JD31045 | $65.00 |
| [Photography] Baer, Morley. Light Years. Carmel, Photography West Graphics, 1988, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. 51 b&w plates by Baer, plus the frontispiece photo, this copy is Signed by Morley Baer. Fine. JD31126 | $200.00 |
| [Photography] Burkett, Christopher. Intimations of Paradise. Vernonia, West Wind Arts, 1999, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes essays by James Reid and Vincent Rossi, introduction by James Alinder, includes 72 color plates followed by a Wendell Berry poem, an essay (World of Wonder) by Burkett, and his Technique and Approach, this copy lacks the original print (as usual), Signed by Christopher Burkett. Fine. JD31103 | $150.00 |
| [Photography] Holmes, Joseph. Natural Light. Berkeley, The Nature Company, 1986, second printing. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, prepared in conjunction with The Yolla Bolly Press, with notes on the 60 plates at the end, foreword by Barry Lopez, Holmes provides his own introduction, this copy is Signed by Joseph Holmes. Fine. JD31128 | $50.00 |
| [Photography] Holub, Leo. Leo Holub Photographer. Stanford, Stanford Alumni Association, 1982, first edition, dust jacket . Hardcover. This is No. 81 of 200 numbered copies Signed by famed photographer Leo Holub, profusely illustrated with his work, it includes a foreword by Wallace Stegner, Colberg B138, lacking the original print (as usual), includes the prospectus for the book and a printed note from Ansel Adams promoting the book. Cloth has spotted, else fine. JD31106 | $50.00 |
| [Photography] Rowell, Galen. Galen Rowell's Vision. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1993, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled The Art of Adventure Photography, foreword by Steve Werner, publisher of "Outdoor Photography," this copy Signed by Galen Rowell. Fine. JD31091 | $45.00 |
| [Photography] Stebbins, Theodore E., Jr. Weston's Westons: Portraits and Nudes. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1989, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by Stebbins and Carl Zahn, frontispiece photo portrait of Weston by Imogene Cunningham, preface by Alan Shestack, text by Stebbins, which is interwoven with photos, is followed by the plates, a production note by Zahn, a checklist of the plates, and a bibliography. Fine. JD31079 | $50.00 |
| [Photography] Szarkowski, John. Ansel Adams at 100. Boston, Little, Brown, 2001, first edition, first printing. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, Szarkowski is director emeritus of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book was issued in conjunction with a centennial exhibit of Adams's work that started in San Francisco in August 2001 with tours planned for Chicago, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York, the book includes 114 tritone plates and 23 duotone text illustrations, laid in loosely within an envelope is a 13X11-inch frameable reproduction print of a photography in the book and exhibition, printed in tritone on heavy stock with a facsimile of Adams's signature and blind-embossed seal of the Ansel Adams Trust, the image is titled Aspens, Dawn, Dolores River Canyon, Colorado, 1937, a prospectus for the book is also laid in loosely, originally published at $150. Fine. JD31116 | $200.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Brett. Brett Weston Voyage of the Eye. Millerton, Aperture, 1975, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Afterword by Beaumont Newhall, followed by a Weston chronology and a selected bibliography. Fine in a near fine jacket. JD31077 | $75.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Charis Wilson and Edward. California and the West. NY, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940, first edition, first printing. Lacking its dust jacket, a U. S. Camera book with 96 photographs, photos taken from 1937 to 1939 while on a Guggenheim fellowship, text by Charis Wilson Weston, his second wife, from a diary she kept. Very good. JD31081 | $150.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Cole. Cole Weston At Home And Abroad. NY, Aperture, 1998, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes an introductory essay, A Long Day's Journey Into Light, by Paul Wolf. Fine. JD31082 | $10.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Cole. Eighteen Photographs. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, 1981, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. With a dust jacket, foreword by Ben Maddow, introduction by Charis Wilson, this copy is Signed by Cole Weston. Fine. JD31101 | $65.00 |
| [Photography] Wilson, Charis and Weston, Edward. California and the West. Millerton, Aperture, 1978, first edition thus. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, this is No. 218 of 350 copies produced with hand selected sheets that are Signed by Charis Wilson, with 64 photographs by Edward Weston and a foreword by Charis Wilson to this new, revised edition, originally published in 1940, lacking the silver print from the original negative (as usual). Fine. JD31080 | $450.00 |
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