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James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
1595-B Third Avenue
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
(925)935-5033
Established1980 - Member ABAA
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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] Benet, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent. A Book of Americans. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-1 in this important series, first issue, illustrated by Charles Child, it is comprised of verse about Columbus, Pocahontas, DeSoto, Miles Standish, Cotton Mather, Capt. Kidd, Washington, Benedict Arnold, Jefferson, Hamilton, Daniel Boone, Dolly Madison, Robert E. Lee, U. S. Grant, Lincoln, Barnum, Jesse James, the Wright Brothers, and many others, with a note about Stephen Vincent Benet 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] Heyward, DuBose. Porgy. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-5 in this important series, Southern author's first novel, 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] Untermeyer, Louis (editor). Great Poems From Chaucer To Whitman. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-6 in this important series, a paperback original, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, includes Chaucer, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Milton, Lord Byron, Shelley, Emerson, Poe, Whitman, etc., designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Bromfield, Louis. What Became of Anna Bolton?. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-7 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. Very good plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Eaton, Evelyn. The Sea Is So Wide. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-14 in this important series, a historical novel set in 1755, 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] Perry, George Sessions. Hackberry Cavalier. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-16 in this important series, second novel by the Texan, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Crow, Carl. 400 Million Customers. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-18 in this important series, "an American businessman looks at China," 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] Wylie, Philip. Fish and Tin Fish. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-19 in this important series, fishing stories featuring Crunch Adams and his mate, Desperate, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Croy, Homer. Country Cured. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-21 in this important series, an autobiography of this humorist, 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] Gray, George W. Science at War. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-22 in this important series, a "clarifying interpretation of the role of science in civilization," condensed for wartime reading, 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] Mann, Thomas. Selected Short Stories of Thomas Mann. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. L-28 in this important series, a paperback original, translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter, 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. | |
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