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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 Negative. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1981, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is Book 2 in the New Ansel Adams Photography Series, written in collaboration with Robert Baker, includes visualization and image values, light and film, exposure, the Zone system, filters, natural light photography, artificial light photography, darkroom processes, darkroom equipment and procedures, and value control in processing, this copy Signed by Ansel Adams in Carmel in 1983, very scarce thus. Fine. JD31083 |  $300.00 |
| [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] (Armitage, Merle). Brett Weston Photographs. NY, E. Weyhe, Publisher, 1956, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Book designed by Merle Armitage, with the errata slip, his text is printed on rectos only, followed by 18 b&w photos. Very good. JD31102 | $1,000.00 |
| [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] 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 |
| [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] 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 |
| [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] Wallace, David Rains. The Wilder Shore. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1984, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, No. 97 of 250 copies for sale (from a total print-run of 300) Signed by both David Rains Wallace and Morley Baer who provides photo illustrations in color and b&w, also includes a special original photographic print made and Signed by Baer especially for this edition (Ranchland, Big Sur, 1969), also includes a foreword by Wallace Stegner, issued as part of the Sierra Club's Exhibit Format Series, the first to be issued in 10 years, printed by the Yolla Bolly Press, issued with the publisher's slipcase, an excellent and remarkable book with much about California authors and "their" land, including Ed Ricketts, page 16, and John Steinbeck, pages 16, 18, 48, 54, 65-66, 71, 83, 87-88, and 139, mass mailer notice about the book from the Sierra Club along with the prospectus laid in loosely (originally mailed to the late bookseller Diane Peterson). Fine in the publisher's slipcase which has several stray marks. JD31063 | $300.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Brett. Brett Weston Voyage of the Eye. Millerton, Aperture, 1975, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, No. 64 of 100 Signed copies produced with hand selected sheets and specially bound, afterword by Beaumont Newhall, followed by a Weston chronology and a selected bibliography, lacking the original print (as usual). Fine in a slipcase with some wear. JD31072 | $850.00 |
| [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] Weston, Cole. Fifty Years. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith Books, 1991, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Weston provides his own introduction (in which he candidly talks about being the son of famous photographer Edward Weston), afterword by R. H. Cravens, includes some early b&w photos of him, plus his color work, this copy is Signed by Cole Weston. Fine. JD31098 | $100.00 |
| [Photography] Weston, Edward. Edward Weston Nudes. Millerton, Aperture, 1977, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, this is No. 39 of 350 copies produced with hand selected sheets, specially bound, and Signed by Charis Wilson, it includes a remembrance of Edward Weston by her and his photographs which are accompanied by excerpts from his daybooks and letters, lacking the original print (as usual). Fine. JD31073 | $350.00 |
| [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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