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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] Tabori, George. Companions of the Left Hand. NY, Armed Services Editions, 1946, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1210 in this important series, a novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the scarce upright/vertical format. Fade to spine, Corps of Engineers stamp, else very good. JD33674 |  $65.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-70 in this important series, a 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, this is one of the very scarce and important D-Day ASEs. Very good. JD35453 | $45.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Taylor, Frank J. California's "Grapes of Wrath". Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, November 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A not very flattering review (more like a rebuke) of John Steinbeck's masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, pages 89-95, text from "Forum," this issue also includes Sherwood Anderson, Charles A. Lindbergh, and Antoine de Saint Exupery, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine. JD28419 | $30.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Taylor, J. Golden (editor). Great Western Short Stories. Palo Alto, American West Publishing, 1967, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Signed twice by Wallace Stegner, once at his introduction and again at his Carrion Spring contribution, Colberg B90, also includes John Steinbeck's The Leader of the People, pages 550-566, also includes Jack London, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, William Saroyan, etc. Age and soiling to textblock edges, else fine. JD29680 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Taylor, Rosemary. Chicken Every Sunday. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. B-44, just the 44th title in this important series, "my life with Mother's boarders," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD36845 | $45.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Tcholakian, Arthur. Armenia State People Life. NY, Paradon Publishing Company, 1975, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Text edited by Leo Hamalian, book written by Tcholakian and filled with his prolific photographs, photographic illustrated endpapers. Fine. JD33879 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Tedlock, E. W. Jr. and Wicker, C. V. Steinbeck And His Critics. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1957, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. "A record of twenty-five years," this scarce book is both a critical study and an anthology, it includes 29 articles by 17 critics such as Frederic I. Carpenter, Lewis Gannett, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Joseph Wood Krutch, Peter Lisca, Antonia Seixas (Ed Ricketts ex-wife), and others, as well as six "reactions" to criticism by Steinbeck, two of which appear for the first time here, as an anthology, it includes My Short Novels,Critics, Critics, Burning Bright, Critics--From a Writer's Viewpoint, A Letter on Criticism, On Steinbeck and His Critics, and Rationale by Steinbeck himself, Goldstone & Payne B104, Morrow 352, this is an Association Copy, being the copy of Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott, so written by DeMott on the front free endpaper, DeMott has been among the best of Steinbeck scholars for decades and is easily the most accessible writer who can explain and expound on Steinbeck in something other than English professor-speak, in additional to his many scholarly articles about Steinbeck, he was acting director of the Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University, he helped launch "The Steinbeck Quarterly," a mostly scholarly publication dedicated to Steinbeck, he is also the author of a trilogy of books on Steinbeck beginning with his influential Steinbeck's Reading published in 1984, followed by Working Days which follows Steinbeck's own journal kept while writing The Grapes of Wrath, that was followed by Steinbeck's Typewriter, he also wrote the introduction to his friend Jim Harrison's bibliography. Previous owner's large ink name/date, along with a notation of Steinbeck's birth date on the front free endpaper, jacket clipped, some tape ghosts. JD32024 | $150.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Teiser, Ruth. Lawton Kennedy, Printer. San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1988, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Foreword by James D. Hart, photogravure frontispiece portrait and 12 color reproductions of his work, printed on acid-free paper, one of 450 copies, prospectus laid in. As new, unread. JD406 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Terhune, Albert Payson. Lad: A Dog. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 714 in this important series, a classic dog story, illustrated by Robert L. Dickey, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Spine fade, else very good. JD36854 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Terkel, Studs. "We Still See Their Faces". San Francisco, San Francisco Review of Books, Spring 1989, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is an excerpt from Terkel's introduction to the 50th anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath, 24, 29, it also includes a review by James D. Houston of both Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath edited by Robert DeMott and a reprinting of Steinbeck's The Harvest Gypsies, 25-26, also includes an article on Anne Rice. Fine. JD32252 | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] The Valley Guild. The Steinbeck House Cookbook. Salinas, The Valley Guild, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Pictorial jacket shows the Steinbeck House at 132 Central Avenue in Salinas, the Nobel Prize-winning author's home town, this is No.92 of 500 numbered copies, recipes edited by Kay Hillyard from the Steinbeck family, many of which are still served at the house, includes a preface by Elaine Steinbeck and both an introduction and a foreword by Lee Richard Hayman, photo illustrations by Steve Crouch, promotional materials laid in loosely. Fine. JD28906 | $75.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] The Valley Guild. The Steinbeck House Cookbook. Salinas, The Valley Guild, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Pictorial jacket shows the Steinbeck House at 132 Central Avenue in Salinas, the Nobel Prize-winning author's home town, recipes edited by Kay Hillyard from the Steinbeck family, many of which are still served at the house, includes a preface by Elaine Steinbeck and both an introduction and a foreword by Lee Richard Hayman, photo illustrations by Steve Crouch, promotional materials laid in loosely. Fine. JD28907 | $45.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Thompson, Hunter S. Mistah Leary He Dead. San Francisco, X-Ray Book Company, n.d. (1996), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Hand-sewn wrappers, No. 277 of 300 numbered copies (there were also 26 lettered copies), this reprints Thompson's obituary of Timothy Leary which was originally published in "Rolling Stone," Signed by "John B" who is the designer (along with Karoline Schleh), printed by hand in New Orleans by the New Orleans School of GlassWorks and Printmaking Studio, tipped onto the inside rear wrapper is a faux acid blotter sheet showing Leary's likeness in a multitude of small squares. Fine. JD32373 | $950.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Thompson, Hunter S. Screw-Jack. NY, Simon and Schuster, 2000, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This copy Signed in full by Thompson on the front free endpaper. Fine. JD32374 | $750.00 |
| (Thompson, Jim). Tulsa: A Guide to the Oil Capital. Tulsa, The Mid-West Printing Company, 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Issued as part of the American Guide Series, compiled by workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the state of Oklahoma then headed by Jim Thompson who went on to be best known as author of hardboiled crime fiction, most being paperback originals now highly sought, he was "discovered" generally after his death in 1977, films including The Getaway and The Grifters were made from his works,Thompson was director of the Oklahoma Federal Writers Project, Louis L'Amour worked under his direction, this was one of at least three books worked on by Thompson for the WPA as its Oklahoma director, this book precedes both his first short story appearance and his first hardcover, Now and On Earth. Slight fade to spine, else a fine, crisp, clean copy of a very scarce book. JD33893 | $5,000.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Thomson, Sir Basil. Typed Letters Signed. Cotes du Nord, Sir Basil Thomson, 1933-1936, first edition. This is a small archive of letters between Malcolm Johnson, an editor and executive with Doubleday, Doran, and Thomson, British colonial administrator to Fiji and Tonga, an author who wrote about these places, and a prison governor who eventually became head of the Criminal Investigations Department at the New Scotland Yard, the first letter is dated September 4, 1934 from Thomson to Johnson, he thanks him for the second edition of "P. C. Richardson's First Case" and reports that he is one-third through with its sequel, he adds, "What you tell me about police projects in America interests/me keenly. I am all in favor with Mr. Mulrooney's proposal to/introduce flogging as a deterrent because I know how it has worked/as a deterrent to highway robbery over here, but I am not in favour/of recurrent floggings. I have had to witness floggings in/British Convict Prisons and I can assure you that they are not/a pretty sight," adding, "If a reporter for one of your sensational newspapers/contrived to be present and wrote it up, there would be a wave/of horror and pity among the ladies of the Country Clubs throughout/the country and public sympathy would be transferred to the wrong/party," he continues his response about other police matters being considered in the United States, the letter has a total of 50 lines, signed in full, together with a carbon of a typed letter from Johnson to Thomson dated September 29, 1933 reporting that the plan for a national police force has fallen away, but that a greatly strengthened finger printing bureau in Washington has remained, he also reports that Thomson's The Kidnapper wouldn't work for the American reading public "because we like our crime fairly unadulterated and bloody," Thomson writes to Johnson again in a typed letter signed, dated February 5, 1934, saying that he considered and then rejected the idea of writing a book about Scotland Yard, he does report that "I am not far from finishing a third Richardson (as an inspector)/with a better plot than the others, I think in which R works alone," the letter is comprised of 63 lines, he writes again about the difference between the American prison system and the British, to wit, "The real/defect in your system seems to be in the prisons - not the police./We had the same trouble in England until we nationalized the/prisons under a central Board in 1977 and had uniformed rules and/monthly inspection, a separate cell for each prisoner, and regular/searching of cells and the persons of prisoners, which is done in/the bath-house when they take their weekly bath," Thomson writes to Johnson again in a typed letter signed dated April 2, 1934, it appears that Johnson had offered an advance on a book about Scotland Yard, Thomson agrees to the project, but he declines the advance until he delivers the manuscript, he gives some information about how Scotland Yard is set up and responsibilities are divided, he also informs Johnson of the situation on crime in France, he reports that "democracy has sunk in France. Some sort of revolution is inev-/itable in the near future I feel sure. One can only pin one's hope/on the astonishing power of recuperation of the French," Johnson responds in his carbon of a letter dated April 14, 1934 that 'The History of Scotland Yard,' the project they had planned, would "be the definitive work on the subject," together with another letter to Johnson from Thomson, dated January 27, 1936, he writes in part, "There are one or two points which you may like to put/right if there is time. It was Old Scotland Yard that was/on the site of the palace of the kings of Scotland: New Scotland/Yard was built of granite quarried by the convicts at Dartmoor/on the site of what was intended to be the Victorian Opera/House to replace Covent Garden". Very good. JD31418 | $500.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Thorne, Anthony. So Long at the Fair. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1276 in this important series, "gay tale of mystery and young love in the Paris of another day," 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. Good. JD35584 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Timmerman, John H. John Steinbeck's Fiction The Aesthetics of the Road Taken. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1986, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This copy Inscribed by the author. Foxing to top and fore edges, else fine. JD28918 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Twain, Mark. Autobiography of Mark Twain. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2010, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is Volume 1, a first printing with the complete number line and scarce thus, the initial print run for this book was a modest 7,500 copies, but more than 275,000 copies have been printed since then, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, this is the complete and authoritative edition of his autobiography, a free wheeling and sometimes rambling biography, just as he planned it, published 100 years after Twain's death as part of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Fine. JD31850 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Norwalk, Easton Press, 1981, first edition thus. Full leather, AEG, gilt designs, hubbed spine, moire endpapers, ribbon place marker, illustrated by Richard Sparks, including the color frontispiece portrait of the author. Fine. JD33843 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-76 in this important series, a classic American 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, this is one of the very scarce D-Day ASE books. Very good plus. JD36279 | $150.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. N-1 in this important series, a fantasy, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. JD36849 | $22.50 |
| [Modern Literature] Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper A Tale. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1882, later printing. With the first issue point of the Franklin Press notation on the copyright page, but with the errors on pages 124, 263, and 362 corrected, making this a second or later printing, with three blank leaves at the end, marbled endpapers and edges, with 192 illustrations, bound in publisher's three-quarters calf and marbled boards, with red spine panel for title and black spine panel for author, with other spine panels decorated in gilt. General wear, especially worn at extremities, else a very good copy. JD31553 | $650.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Tyler, Anne. Morgan's Passing. NY, Knopf, 1980, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Fine. JD1943 | $35.00 |
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