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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] Walker, Alice. Once. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, a poetry collection, Signed by Walker (author of The Color Purple) on the title page. Remainder mark, else fine in a very good plus jacket. JD32967 |  $500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wallace, David Foster. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Boston, Little, Brown, 1997, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Essays and arguments by the author of Infinite Jest, "from personal narratives to tennis, film, philosophy, and postmodern literary theory," his words will send you to the dictionary about two times per page. Fine, unread. JD33255 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wallace, David Foster. Girl With Curious Hair. NY, Norton, 1989, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. His second book, his first collection of stories that includes the title story and nine others. Fine. JD32960 | $150.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] Wallace, David Rains. The Wilder Shore. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. This Yolla Bolly Press book was distributed in this trade edition by Random House, beautifully illustrated by Morley Baer photographs, foreword by Wallace Stegner which he has Signed, Colberg B149. Fine. JD3515 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Wallace, David Rains. The Wilder Shore. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Includes numerous photo illustrations by Morley Baer, foreword by Wallace Stegner, this trade edition was distributed by Random House, issued as part of the Sierra Club's Exhibit Format Series, the first to be issued in 10 years, 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, 139, this copy is Inscribed by both the author and the photographer, David Rains Wallace and Morley Baer, additionally, Stegner has Signed his foreword, several prospectuses and two "compliments" cards from the Sierra Club laid in loosely. Fine. JD28777 | $250.00 |
| [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 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wallace, Francis. Kid Galahad. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 746 in this important series, first issue, reprinted later in the series as No. 1092 in 1946, a boxing novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34452 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Walpole, Hugh. Fortitude. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 928 in this important series, "the education of an adventurer," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34675 | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Warga, Wayne. Hardcover. NY, Arbor House, 1985, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Author's First Book, advance copy, an uncorrected proof of this biblio-mystery in which a John Steinbeck first edition is the main clue, this copy Inscribed by Warga, autographed note from Warga also laid in loosely. Light use. JD28911 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Warren, Robert Penn. Rumor Verified Poems 1979-80 . NY, Random House, 1981, first edition. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, No. 124 of 250 specially bound copies Signed by Warren. Bit of sunning to the book's spine, else fine. JD35636 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Warren, Robert Penn. World Enough and Time. NY, Random House, 1950, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. No. 291 of an unknown number limited for presentation to the American Booksellers Association, front cover stamped "presentation edition," issued with a clear plastic dust jacket. Plastic jacket with the expected short tear and minor chip, else fine. JD6823 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Warrick, Patricia S. and Greenberg, Martin H. (editors). Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1987, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick, includes 15 short stories by Dick. Fine. JD33112 | $75.00 |
| [Miscellaneous] Watson, Douglas S. The Life of Johann August Sutter. San Francisco, Grabhorn Press, 1933, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. One of 200 copies printed for the Catholic Women's Club of Santa Clara County (California) as a souvenir of Campus Day May 25, 1933 at the University of Santa Clara where Watson delivered a talk on the life of Sutter, this piece first appeared as an introduction to The Diary of Johann August Sutter which the Grabhorn Press published a year earlier, this is NOT one of those ridiculous print-on-demand abominations. Very good. JD27254 | $75.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Watt, F. W. John Steinbeck. NY, Grove Press, 1962, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, an Evergreen Pilot Book, Review Copy with review slip showing publication date as May 31, 1962, this is the first American edition, cover photo by Karsh, Goldstone & Payne F47, not recorded by Morrow. Piece of tape to front cover, very good plus. JD28527 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Watt, F. W. Steinbeck. NY, Chip's Bookshop, 1978, first edition thus. Issued without dust jacket, this is the first hardcover edition, originally published as a paperback original in both Edinburgh and the United States in 1962, not recorded by Morrow. Fine. JD28820 | $25.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Weaver, John D. Wind Before Rain. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 879 in this important series, a novel set in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD33296 | $10.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Weeks, Donald. Steinbeck Against Steinbeck. Stanford, The Pacific Spectator, Autumn 1947, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Not a particularly flattering article (for the usual reasons--Steinbeck is sentimental, his books aren't as good as the earlier ones, etc.), pages 447-457, this is the Vol. 1, No. 4 issue of this Stanford University publication, inside front cover has been Signed by one of its editors, Wallace Stegner, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Yapped edges, bright and clean, especially scarce in this condition. JD28433 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Welch, Douglass. Mr. Digby. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1109 in this important series, "humorous tales of a demon photographer" by this Seattle newspaperman, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD35136 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 698 in this important series, a fantasy-thriller, film source, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD34933 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-2 in this important series, a classic fantasy and source for several films, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34393 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 745 in this important series, a fantasy classic and film source, reprinted later in the series as No. 1091 in 1946, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. JD34451 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wentworth, Harold and Flexner, Stuart Berg. Dictionary of American Slang. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967, first edition thus, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. With a supplement by Flexner that updates the 1960 original edition, this is a Review Copy with review slip. Fine in a very good plus dust jacket. JD31206 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. Die Vierzig Tage Des Musa Dagh. Berlin, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1933, first edition. Two volumes, blue cloth, lacking their dust jackets, according to a letter from Europe Unie Books, the book was published in both red and blue cloth, the first edition consisted of 10,000 copies, "The book burnings took place in Germany at the beginning of the Third Reich, and although books were confiscated and burned, it was mostly for show, as most of the 'forbidden' books were shipped off to Holland in an attempt to flood the market there with German books and thereby bankrupt the publishers of German authors in exile, such as Werfel," but few were actually burned, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915. Spines faded, very good. JD33878 | $750.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. Die Vierzig Tage Des Musa Dagh. Berlin, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1933, first edition, dust jackets. Hardcover. Two volumes, red cloth, ribbon place marker, this copy Signed by Werfel in Vienna in the year of publication, according to a letter from Europe Unie Books, the book was published in both red and blue cloth, the first edition consisted of 10,000 copies, "The book burnings took place in Germany at the beginning of the Third Reich, and although books were confiscated and burned, it was mostly for show, as most of the 'forbidden' books were shipped off to Holland in an attempt to flood the market there with German books and thereby bankrupt the publishers of German authors in exile, such as Werfel," but few were actually burned, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915, extremely scarce when found signed by Werfel, none were found on-line as of this writing. Very good. JD33880 | $2,500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, The Modern Library, 1937, first Modern Library edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Geoffrey Dunlop, map endpapers, glossary of Armenian and Turkish terms in the rear, this is the novelization of the stand a group of Armenians made against their Turkish oppressors on Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, in 1915 the Turkish government ordered massacres and forced deportations of Armenians in Turkey, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians in Turkey were killed, the first holocaust of the 20th Century. Owner's name stamped on bottom edge, thumb-sized chip at top of jacket spine, else very good. JD33866 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Carroll & Graff, 1983, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. Original cover painting by Harold Seroy, this is the novelization of the stand a group of Armenians made against their Turkish oppressors on Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, in 1915 the Turkish government ordered massacres and forced deportations of Armenians in Turkey, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians in Turkey were killed, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, list of characters in the rear. Character list is folded, else fine. JD33867 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1967, first Viking Compass edition, wrappers. Softcover. List of characters at the end, along with a list of Armenian and Turkish terms, this is the novelization of the stand a group of Armenians made against their Turkish oppressors on Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, in 1915 the Turkish government ordered massacres and forced deportations of Armenians in Turkey, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians in Turkey were killed, the first holocaust of the 20th Century. Good. JD33868 | $15.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Giant Cardinal, 1961, first edition thus, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. No. GC 768, full-page note about the book by William Saroyan, this is the novelization of the events of 1915 wherein the Turkish government ordered the slaughter of Armenians living in Turkey, this book tells the story of a group of Armenians who fought against their slaughter by staging a defense atop Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this first holocaust of the 20th Century killed 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey who were subject to Turkish oppression for centuries. Very good. JD33873 | $25.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1934, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. One of 750 advance copies privately distributed and not for sale, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915, includes two inserts to be inserted in the "regular" edition that were received too late for inclusion in this special edition, one is nearly exactly what was used on the front flap of the dust jacket about Franz Werfel, the other is a list of characters as well as a glossary of Armenian and Turkish terms which is found in the rear of the trade edition. Scattered foxing to cloth, especially along the spine and the front and rear pastedowns, includes its original (and scarce) clear plastic jacket. JD33875 | $350.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1934, first edition. Although the first preliminary indicates this is one of 750 specially bound (advance) copies, it is actually one of only 32 copies specially bound for the staff of The Viking Press, noted by a tipped in insert, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government which ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government in 1915, this is the only "staff" copies seen by this bookseller in his 39 years of professional bookselling, issued without a dust jacket according to a postcard from the bookseller from whom this copy was purchased. Very good. JD33876 | $750.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. NY, Viking, 1934, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Map endpapers, list of characters in the rear along with a glossary of Armenian and Turkish terms, this novel tells the story of a group of Armenians who resisted their slaughter by the Turks on a mountain called Musa Dagh, Moses's Mountain, this systematic slaughter, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, was perpetrated by the Turkish government who ordered the killings and mass, forced deportations, 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey were killed on these orders of the Turkish government. Clean, bright copy in a very good jacket. JD35589 | $200.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days. London, Hutchinson International Authors Ltd, n.d., first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. Translated from the German by Geoffrey Dunlop, the title is shortened from its original title, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Musa Dagh being a mountain known as Moses's mountain, it was there that a group of Armenians resisted slaughter by the Turks on the order of the Turkish government in 1915, the first holocaust of the 20th Century wherein 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians living in Turkey who were subject to Turkish oppression for centuries were killed in massacres or forced deportations. 1945-dated ink inscription, else near fine in a very good jacket. JD33872 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] (Werfel, Franz). Forty Days of Musa Dagh. n.p., Video City Productions, 1983, first edition. The Beta version of this film based on Werfel's novel about the stand Armenians made on the mountain known as Musa Dagh (Moses's Mountain) trying to save their race from the brutality of the Turkish government, the genocide perpetrated by the Turkish government killed 1.5 million of the 3 million Armenians in Turkey in 1915, the first holocaust of the 20th Century, the film starred Guy Stockwell, Peter Haskell, David Opatashu, extremely difficult to find. Fine. JD33865 | $100.00 |
| [Wallace Stegner] West, Ray B. (editor). The Rocky Mountain Reader. NY, Dutton, 1946, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. An anthology that includes Wallace Stegner who offers Arcadian Village, an excerpt from his Mormon Country, Colberg B12, it also includes Bernard DeVoto, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Vardis Fisher, and others. Near fine in a very good jacket. JD3513 | $65.00 |
| [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 |
| [Armed Services Editions] White, E. B. Quo Vadimus? Or the Case for the Bicycle. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 696 in this important series, American humor, includes some of his best pieces from "The New Yorker," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Clean, bright, very good plus. JD32343 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] White, E. B. Quo Vadimus? Or the Case for the Bicycle. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 696 in this important series, American humor, includes some of his best pieces from "The New Yorker," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD32746 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] White, E. B. Quo Vadimus? Or the Case for the Bicycle. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 696 in this important series, American humor, includes some of his best pieces from "The New Yorker," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34931 | $15.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] White, E. B. The New Yorker Reporter At Large. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition , wrappers. Softcover. No. 1066 in this important series, a paperback original, selections from "The New Yorker" by Rebecca West, John Lardner, A. J. Leibling, Robert Lewis Taylor, E. B. White, etc., cover from the August 9, 1941 issue of the magazine, an intense cover that features a travel agency window and the silhouette of a German soldier looking at posters of European countries, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. JD35093 | $12.50 |
| [Modern Literature] White, Kenneth. The Coast Opposite Humanity. Wales, Unicorn Bookshop, 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Subtitled An Essay on the Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Fine. JD30538 | $75.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1976, first edition thus. Full leather with gilt designs, AEG, ribbon place marker, moire endpapers, color illustrations by William Maughan, this book won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize. Fine. JD33781 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wilder, Walter Beebe. Bounty of the Wayside. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. K-7 in this important series, "this book contains many good recipes for the utilization of our natural bounty," 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. JD34699 | $12.50 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Wilhelmson, Carl. Speed of the Reindeer. NY, Viking, 1954, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A young person's story of Lapland, illustrated by Rafaelio Busoni, Wilhelmson was a fellow writer and friend of John Steinbeck during their days together at Stanford University and somewhat beyond, back panel of the dust jacket recalls the time they spent together at Lake Tahoe while Steinbeck was writing his first book, Cup of Gold, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne nor the Morrow catalogue. Near fine. JD28264 | $60.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Williams, John A. Love. Derry, Babcock & Koontz, n.d. (1989), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. An excerpt from a work in progress then titled The Book Without Title which was later (1999) published as Clifford's Blues, this is No. 88 of 200 copies signed by the author bound in string-tied wrappers, there was also a signed/limited hardcover, includes a wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec, includes a sheet folded to make four pages that lists other titles by this specialty press "of works by significant writers," published at $45. Fine, unread. JD33635 | $30.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Williamson, Jack. Dragon's Island. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1951, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Briefly inscribed by Williamson on the title page in 1981. Very good. JD33121 | $75.00 |
| [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 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wilson, Earl. I Am Gazing Into My 8-Ball. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 702 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 plus. JD34937 | $15.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Wilson, Edmund. The Boys in the Back Room. San Francisco, The Colt Press, 1941, first trade edition. Lacking its dust jacket, one of 1,500 copies, it includes a chapter on John Steinbeck, pages 41-53, not a particularly flattering piece by Wilson who could never find anything worthwhile about Steinbeck's writing, Wilson also writes about James M. Cain, John O'Hara, Hans Otto Storm, William Saroyan, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, all of whom Wilson referred to as California novelists, this is in the variant binding of black cloth and green boards, Goldstone & Payne F10, Morrow 577. Very good plus. JD30933 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Wilson, Edmund. The Californians: Storm and Steinbeck. NY, The New Republic, December 9, 1940, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. The third in a series on American writers, it also quotes John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle, pages 784-787, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Library stamps from Princeton University, some spine corruption, else very good. JD28415 | $25.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Winterich, John T. Writers in America, 1842-1967. Jersey City, The Davey Company, 1968, first edition. With publisher's slipcase, illustrated by Fritz Kredel, with a note from the publisher laid in loosely, includes The Fruits of Wrath: John Steinbeck, pages 74-76, also includes Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, and others, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine. JD32254 | $30.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wintz, Henri and Hyde, David. Precious Artifacts 2. n.p., Wide Books, 2014, first edition. Illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket, subtitled A Philip K. Dick Bibliography The Short Stories, it covers American and UK editions 1952-2014, with color and b&w illustrations, this is No. 18 of only 50 hardcover copies, scarce, as of this writing, there are no hardcover copies listed on-line, this is Nit's copy. Fine. JD35533 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wintz, Henri and Hyde, David. Precious Artifacts. n.p., Wide Books, 2012, first edition. Illustrated boards, issued without dust jacket, subtitled A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, it covers American and UK editions 1955-2012, with the errata slip laid in loosely, with color and b&w illustrations, this is No. 26 of only 100 hardcover copies, scarce, as of this writing, there are no hardcover copies listed on-line, this is Nit's copy. Fine. JD35532 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Eggs, Beans and Crumpets. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1940, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. 13 short stories by a master at humor. Aged, else very good in a good jacket. JD33605 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Hot Water. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1932, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. More humor by a master, frontispiece and five other illustrations by Rea Irvin. Aged, very good in a good jacket. JD33617 | $250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Laughing Gas. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. A novel about "Hollywood and a noble young Englishman named Reggie Havershot". Very good. JD33619 | $250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Money in the Bank. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1942, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Humor in the Wodehouse tradition, jacket illustrated by Donald McKay. Very good in a very good minus jacket. JD33620 | $225.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. The Crime Wave at Blandings. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1937, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Seven humorous stories by a master of the craft. Aged, very good in a very good minus jacket. JD33609 | $300.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. The Luck of the Bodkins. Boston, Little, Brown, 1936, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. More humor by a master of the craft. Very good. JD33614 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Uncle Fred in the Springtime. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1939, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Humor by a master of the craft, front jacket illustration features a pig, ironically, the jacket was designed by Peggy Bacon. Aged, very good. JD33608 | $375.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wodehouse, P. G. Young Men in Spats. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1936, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. 12 humorous stories by a master of the craft. Aged, very good in a poor jacket with internal tape reinforcements. JD33607 | $75.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wolfe, Thomas. Of Time And The River. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1013 in this important series, "a legend of man's hunger in his youth," condensed, 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. JD35040 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. A Man in Full. NY, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1998, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Laid loosely into this novel is a bookmark from the Texas Book Festival Signed by Wolfe. Fine. JD32385 | $60.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. Hooking Up. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Preceded by a Franklin Library signed/limited edition, he writes about the eternal sexual struggle, it also reprints for the first time a novella, Ambush at Ft. Bragg, this copy Signed by Wolfe on the front free endpaper. Fine. JD32390 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. I Am Charlotte Simmons. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Wolfe has Signed this novel on the title page. Fine. JD32387 | $60.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. In Our Time. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated with several drawings by the author, this copy Inscribed by Wolfe ("To/Leonard/Tom Wolfe") with his usual flourish. Fine in a jacket with four short tears. JD33394 | $100.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated by Wolfe himself, the book includes "other stories, sketches, and essays" as Wolfe writes about the "Me" decade of the 1970s, this copy Inscribed ("For/Leroy/Soper/...more Tom foolery/by/Tom Wolfe/October 22/1979"). Touch of edgewear, else fine. JD32398 | $150.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970, first edition, first printing, dust jacket . Hardcover. This is another book with Wolfe as observer of the American scene, this is essentially two books, the first, Radical Chic, observers the coupling of the Black Panthers with New York's social elite, while Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is about "racial and ethnic game-playing in America's new class wars, this copy Signed by Wolfe on the half title. Remnants of a previous owner's name sticker on the front free endpaper, else fine. JD32396 | $300.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. NY, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1968, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. This is Wolfe at his best following Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters in the wild, wacky, wonderful, and turbulent 1960s, with the wonderfully psychedelic front jacket illustration by Milton Glaser. Near fine. JD32399 | $500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Author's First Book, illustrated with Wolfe's own drawings, not only is this copy Signed by Wolfe on the half-title, but it's a presentation from Arnold Gingrich, editor of "Esquire" where some of this material was first published, laid in loosely is a typed letter signed by Gingrich presenting the book to Arthur E. Sudler, chairman of the board and president of Sudler & Hennessey, a healthcare communications company, a very young Wolfe is pictured on the rear cover, nattilly dressed, as usual. Jacket price-clipped, else fine. JD32392 | $1,250.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. The New Journalism. NY, Harper & Row, 1973, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Wolfe first writes about the new journalism which is followed by an anthology of just that - new journalism by distinguished authors, the anthology is edited by Wolfe and E. W. Johnson, it includes selections by Truman Capote (from In Cold Blood), Terry Southern (Twirling at Ole Miss), Hunter S. Thompson (The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved), Norman Mailer (from Armies of the Night), Tom Wolfe (from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), George Plimpton (from Paper Lion), and many others, this copy is Inscribed by Wolfe on the title page, Hunter S. Thompson has Signed his initials on page 174 of his contribution, Ralph Steadman has Inscribed and Signed the book on page 175 onto which he has contributed an original drawing. Near fine. JD32388 | $4,500.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolfe, Tom. The Purple Decades. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Introduction by David Bellamy, this copy Inscribed by Wolfe on the front free endpaper, this Wolfe reader covers the 1960s and 1970s, the purple decades, illustrated, it includes material from The Pump House Gang, The Electric Kool-Aide Acid Test, Radical Chic, From Bauhaus to Our House, The Right Stuff, etc. Very nearly fine. JD32389 | $125.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wolff, Tobias. The Other Miller. Derry/Ridgewood, Babcock & Koontz, 1986, first edition. Hardcover issued without dust jacket, printed label affixed to front board, No. 91 of 200 Arabic-numbered copies (there were another 40 with Roman numerals) Signed in full by Wolff, title page engraving by Gaylord Schanilac, this short story first appeared in the June 1986 issue of "The Atlantic," this is the first separate printing, with publisher's prospectus for this book and other recent titles. Fine. JD33501 | $100.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Womack, John Jr. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution. NY, Knopf, 1969, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. With photos of Zapata, Zapatistas, and others directly involved in the revolution, it mentions the film Viva Zapata! as one of two films done on Zapata, citing the film for which Steinbeck wrote the screenplay as by far the better and noting the strength of Steinbeck's scholarship in his preparation for writing the screenplay, this is one of the best Zapata studies and is cited by those such as Robert Morsberger as important, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Previously affixed bookplate, top edge spotted, else fine. JD5909 | $50.00 |
| [Steinbeckiana] Woodward, Robert H. The Steinbeck Research Center at San Jose State University: A Descriptive Catalogue. San Jose, San Jose State University, 1985, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Precedes the hardcover issue by several months, with a note from the research center noting that the casebound edition would in fact be late, with a foreword by Robert DeMott, then director of the research center, photo illustrated. Fine. JD29024 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wordsworth, William. My Heart Leaps Up And Other Poems. NY, Armed Services editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 736 in this important series, a paperback original, poems selected 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. JD32358 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wordsworth, William. My Heart Leaps Up And Other Poems. NY, Armed Services editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 736 in this important series, a paperback original, poems selected 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. JD34442 | $20.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Wright, Richard. Native Son. "Life", April 7, 1941, self-wrappers. Softcover. This magazine appearance by Wright is subtitled "Best-Selling Novel Is Turned Into Tense Drama Strikingly Staged by Orson Welles". Very good. JD509 | $10.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wylie, Philip. Night Unto Night. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 774 in this important series, a "philosophical novel," preface by Wylie, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34480 | $12.50 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wylie, Philip. Salt Water Daffy. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. Q-21 in this important series, fishing stories featuring Crunch Adams and Des Smith, includes the title story and six others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Clean very good. JD32166 | $45.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wylie, Philip. Salt Water Daffy. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. Q-21 in this important series, fishing stories featuring Crunch Adams and Des Smith, includes the title story and six others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. JD34822 | $20.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wylie, Philip. Selected Short Stories of Philip Wylie. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-8 in this important series, a paperback original, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD34866 | $50.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Young, Roland, Smith, Thorne, and others. Thorne Smith: His Life and Times. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1934, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover. Subtitled "With a note on his books & a complete bibliography," includes an interview with Smith by Roland Young, Smith himself offers Wherein the Author Is Permitted to Speak, finished with the Smith bibliography, illustrated a touch by Young, but mostly by Herbert Roese. Fine. JD32957 | $35.00 |
| [Modern Literature] Zaller, Robert. The Cliffs of Solitude. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Subtitled A Reading of Robinson Jeffers, with frontispiece photo of Jeffers, includes a Jeffers chronology, this copy Inscribed by Zaller to Eleanor L. Schwartz, laid in loosely is an autographed letter signed by Zaller to Ms. Schwartz in its original mailing enveloped addressed by Zaller, this is not a print-on-demand abomination. Fine. JD30521 | $65.00 |
| [Armed Services Editions] Zevin, B. D. editor). Cobb's Cavalcade. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1175 in this important series, a selection of Irwin S. Cobb's writings, some material eliminated from the original, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. JD35203 | $20.00 |
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