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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, 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] Shaw, George Bernard. Arms And The Man And Two Other Plays. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. 1005 in this important series, also includes Androcles and the Lion as well as Pygmalion, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Near fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] London, Jack. Best Short Stories of Jack London. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1011 in this important series, includes To Build A Fire, Lost Face, On the Makaloa Mat, Love of Life, and others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Heavily creased. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wolfe, Thomas. Of Times 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. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Miers, Earl Schenck. Big Ben. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1027 in this important series, a novel about Paul Robeson's college and law school years, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Ward, Arch. Frank Leahy and the Fighting Irish. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1037 in this important series, the story of Notre Dame football, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Gilligan, Edmund. Hunter's Moon And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. 1055 in this important series, stories of war experiences and fishing in the Catskills, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Cain, James M. The Postman Always Rings Twice. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1058 in this important series, a classic novel and source for the film, "his sentences bristle with terror and sensuality," printed earlier in the series as Q-2, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designesd to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Ink number to front, very good. | |
| [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., issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Ink code to front, very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Seltzer, Charles Alden. The Vengeance of Jefferson Gawne. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1071 in this important series, a Western, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Front cover a bit rough, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Linscott, R. N. (compiler). Comic Relief. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1076 in this important series, a collection of ³modern American humor,² includes Ogden Nash, Ring Lardner, James Thurber, E. B. White, Dorothy Parker, etc., ³slightly condensed for rapid reading," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Front cover well creased, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Tolstoy, Count Leo. Tales by Tolstoy. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1080 in this important series, a paperback original, includes five tales, 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 plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Campbell, William G. and Bedford, James H. You and Your Future Job. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1081 in this important series, a help book for men and women about to be discharged back into the American workforce, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Marquand, John P. Repent in Haste. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1084 in this important series, a novel, the story of a war marriage in the Pacific, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Clouston, J. Storer. The Lunatic at Large. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1086 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, scarce. Ink code, very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Greenberg, David B. and Schindall, Harry. A Small Store And Independence. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1095 in this important series, ³a practical guide to successful retailing," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Burman, Ben Lucien. Steamboat Round the Bend. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1096 in this important series, a novel of life on the lower Mississippi, illustrated with sketches by Alice Caddy, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kendrick, Baynard. Out of Control. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1097 in this important series, a Duncan Maclain (blind detective) mystery, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Ink code to front, else very good plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Grey, Zane. The Border Legion. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1107 in this important series, a Western, by a master of the genre, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Isherwood, Christopher. Prater Violet. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1115 in this important series, a novel written in the first person, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Scrape to front, very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Benefield, Barry. Valiant Is the Word for Carrie. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition nthus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1127 in this important series, a novel and film source, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Parkhill, Forbes. Troopers West. NY, Armed Services editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1135 in this important series, a historical novel of Wyoming frontier days, illustrated by Ross Santee, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Ink code to front, very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Standish, Robert. The Small General. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1138 in this important series, a novel of China, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Carlisle, Norman V. and Latham, Frank B. Miracles Ahead!. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1140 in this important series, a look at the postwar world, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Mulford, Clarence E. The Bar-20 Three. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1141 in this important series, a Western featuring Hopalong Cassidy, Red Connors, and Johnny Nelson, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Front cover a bit rough, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Steele, Wilbur Daniel. That Girl From Memphis. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1146 in this important series, a historical novel of the West set in Arizona, "slightly condensed," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Ink code to front, very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Papashvily, George and Helen. Anything Can Happen. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1149 in this important series, humorous sketches, it reprints ASE No. T-3 from earlier in the series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Nash, Ogden. Many Long Years Ago. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1151 in this important series, collected verse from five early volumes chosen by the author, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Cobb, Irwin S. Cobb's Cavalcade. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1175 in this important series, a selection of Cobb's writings edited by B. D. Zevin, 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. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Pyle, Ernie. Last Chapter. NY, Armed Srvices Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1179 in this important series, this was his last book of war reporting, with a note at the end that Pyle was killed by a machine gun bullet in April 1945 while in the Pacific Theater - after already reporting on the war and the common soldier during the fighting in Africa, Italy, and D-day in the European Theater, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is the first of the very scarce upright format ASEs and is probably the best edition of this book. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] McNulty, John. Third Avenue, New York. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1180 in this important series, 17 stories that originally appeared in "The New Yorker," illustrated by Beatrice Tobias, 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 format. Spine moderately chipped and with tear to front cover, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Macardle, Dorothy. The Unforeseen. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1185 in this important series, the story of a woman with precognition, with a note about this Irish 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. Ink inscription, very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Macardle, Dorothy. The Unforeseen. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1185 in this important series, the story of a woman with precognition, with a note about this Irish 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. Tear along spine, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Campbell, Alice. With Bated Breath. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1188 in this important series, a murder mystery, 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 format. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fowler, Gene. A Solo in Tom-Toms. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1189 in this important series, "the story of a Rocky Mountain boyhood and the quest for a father," 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. Very good . | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Beach, Rex. The World in His Arms. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1195 in this important series, "a swashbuckling romance" from San Francisco to Alaska, 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 format. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Brown, Warren. The Chicago Cubs. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1197 in this important series, the biography of a baseball team by a newspaper sports editor, 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 format. Front corner chip, else very good. | |
| [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 format. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Sale, Richard. Benefit Performance. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1205 in this important series, "an inner sanctum mystery," with a note about the author at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Ink code to front, chipping to spine bottom, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Caspary, Vera. Stranger Than Truth. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1209 in this important series, a novel by the author of Laura and Bedelia, 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 in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Ink code to front, two pieces of tape on spine, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Tabori, George. Companions of the Left Hand. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (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 very scarce upright/vertical format. Ink code to front, else very good plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] O'Hara, Mary. Green Grass of Wyoming. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1211 in this important series, a follow-up to her novels, My Friend Flicka and Thunderhead, this too was a film source, 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 format. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Fearing, Kenneth. The Big Clock. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1215 in this important series, a terror and tension-filled 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 very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good minus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Freuchen, Peter. White Man. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1220 in this important series, a novel of Greenland, 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. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Daniels, Jonathan. Frontier on the Potomac. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1221 in this important series, he reveals how government actually functions and how it "embodies the aspirations of the American people," 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 format. Very good . | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Shepard, Odell and Willard. Holdfast Gaines. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1224 in this important series, a historical novel set in the first generation of America's independence, "slightly condensed," illustrated with two maps, 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. Very good minus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Jennings, John. The Salem Frigate. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1226 in this important series, a historical novel, "slightly condensed," 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. Very good minus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinlay. But Look, the Morn. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1233 in this important series, recollections of his childhood, 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. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Wouk, Herman. Aurora Dawn. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1265 in this important series, a 20th Century story written in the manner of an 18th Century 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 very scarce upright format. Very good plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Herron, Edward A. Alaska Land of Tomorrow. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1278 in this important series, a study when it was not yet a state, 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 format. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Carr, John Dickson. The Sleeping Sphinx. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1280 in this important series, a Dr. Gideon Fell "terrifying" mystery, 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. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Standish, Robert. Mr. On Loong. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1281 in this important series, a novel set in the West Indies, the story of a son of a Chinese laundryman, 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 in the very scarce upright format. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Graham, Shirley. There Was Once A Slave. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1283 in this important series, story of Frederick Douglass, the book won the Julian Messner Award for the best book combating intolerance in America, 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. Pencil code to front, very good. | |
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