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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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| [Modern Literature] Underwood, Tim and Miller, Chuck (editors). Bare Bones. Los Angeles, Underwood Miller, 1988, first edition. Conversations on terror with Stephen King, a master of the craft, based on interviews between 1979 and 1987, issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, marbled endpapers front and rear, this leatherbound edition comes with a hologram of a skull on the title page, it is lettered JJ, one of 52 such lettered copies. Fine. JD33019 |  $275.00 |
| [Stephen King] Underwood, Tim and Miller, Chuck (editors). Bare Bones. Los Angeles, Underwood -Miller, 1988, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, front cover with a hologram of a skull, No. 794 of 1,000 numbered copies, conversations on horror with a master of that craft. Fine. JD36759 | $150.00 |
| [Stephen King] Underwood, Tim and Miller, Chuck (editors). Feast of Fear. San Rafael, Underwood-Miller, 1989, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisher's slipcase, No. 165 of 550 numbered copies, the book is subtitled Conversations With Stephen King, with ribbon place marker. Fine. JD36806 | $75.00 |
| [Stephen King] Underwood, Tim and Miller, Chuck (editors). Kingdom of Fear. San Francisco, Underwood-Miller, 1986, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled The World of Stephen King, King provides the foreword (The Horror Writer and the Ten Bears), introductions by Robert Bloch and others, also includes material by Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Harland Ellison, Don Herron, the two editors, and others. Fine. JD36804 | $50.00 |
| [Stephen King] Underwood, Tim and Miller, Chuck (editors). Kingdom of Fear. San Francisco, Underwood-Miller, 1986, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled The World of Stephen King, King provides the foreword (The Horror Writer and the Ten Bears), introductions by Robert Bloch and others, also includes material by Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Harland Ellison, Don Herron, the two editors, and others, although King himself did not sign, this is No. 84 of 500 copies Signed by 15 of the contributors. Fine. JD36805 | $100.00 |
| [John Steinbeck] Untermeyer, Louis (editor). A Treasury of Ribaldry. NY, Popular Library, 1959, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. W600, includes John Steinbeck's Tortillas and Beans, introduction and text pages 385-392, text from Tortilla Flat, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Aristophanes, John O'Hara, Oscar Wilde, and many others. Clean very good plus. JD29618 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Valjean, Nelson. John Steinbeck The Errant Knight. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1975, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "An intimate biography of his California years," with several photographic illustrations, frontispiece photo of Steinbeck by Phillippe Halsman, Morrow 634. Fine in a rubbed (as usual) jacket. JD1973 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Van Doren, Mark. The Night of the Summer Solstice and Other Stories of the Russian War. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. D-99 in this important series, selected by Van Doren, who also provides a preface, these are actual reports that the Russian people were reading by Konstantin Simonov and six other well-known Russian writers, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is a very scarce and important D-Day ASE. Very good. JD34068 | $45.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Van Dyke, Henry. Autographed Letter Signed. n.p. (NY), Henry Van Dyke, November 9, 1899, first edition. One sheet folded to make four pages, written to the Corresponding Editor of The Youth's Companion, Van Dyke, an American author and clergyman, offers his writing services to the periodical, "I should like/to send a story to the/Youth's Companion, because/I think it's a first-rate/paper, and because its/audience is (?) that a/man ought to be glad/to speak to./There are certain dif-/ficulties in the way./1. I am not a regular/writer of stories. They come/to me very slowly, and/capriciously. They take/their own time and their/own way. Until I know/them, I can't tell them./And when I know them/I don't dare to change/them. This makes my/work immensely (?) un-/certain./2. The next four stories/that come along are/already promised, if/they are (?). It is/not likely that more/than four will drop/in this winter./3. The price that is/paid for one of these/stories is $500, -- long/or short," he adds that if the difficulties can be overcome he would furnish a story the next spring or summer, signed and dated in full. One small scrape to first page, not affecting the text, else very good indeed. JD31421 | $250.00 |
| [Stephen King] Van Hise, James (editor). Enterprise Incidents Presents Stephen King. Tampa, New Media Publishing, 1984, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Illustrated, including photos, reviews King's work. Fine. JD36795 | $35.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Vance, Ethel. Reprisal. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. A-29, just the 29th title issued in this important series, a novel "of occupied France," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, a very scarce book. Cover creases, else very good. JD36273 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Varley, John. Demon. NY, Putnam, 1984, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Hugo and Nebula winner. The usual tanned pages, clipped jacket, else fine. JD1412 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Vestal, Stanley. Jim Bridger Mountain Man. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1199 in this important series, a biography of this fur-trapper/Indian fighter/frontiersman, 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 in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Solid very good. JD35985 | $85.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Vollmann, William T. You Bright and Risen Angels. NY, Atheneum, 1987, first American edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, illustrated by him, it includes his "social gazette of the personalities interviewed for this book," Signed by Vollmann. Fine. JD27339 | $100.00 |
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