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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] Iams, Jack. Prophet By Experience. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. N-20 in this important series, a humorous novel, 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] Iams, Jack. The Countess To Boot. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 876 in this important series, a humorous novel, 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] Iams, Jack. The Countess To Boot. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 876 in this important series, a humorous novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Irish, William. After-Dinner Story. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-20 in this important series, a collection of six horror and mystery stories, including the title story, Rear Window, and Marihuana, William Irish is the pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich, 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. | |
| [Modern Literature] Irving, John. Garp's Night Out. Playboy, February 1977, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. An excerpt from The World According to Garp, his breakthrough book. Just light wear, else fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] Irving, John. Jenny and the Ball-Turret Gunner. Playboy, June 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. The issue also includes an interview with Sara Jane Moore (including why she attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. Near fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Irwin, Margaret. Young Bess. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 843 in this important series, a historical novel of Elizbeth, Queen of England, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. | |
| [The West] Issler, Anne Roller. Our Mountain Hermitage Silverado and Robert Louis Stevenson. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1950, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustration of Robert Louis Stevenson at work on "The Silverado Squatters" as frontispiece and 13 other illustrations. Fine in a very good jacket. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Jackson, Charles. The Lost Weekend. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), second ASE issue, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1041 in this important series, a novel and source for the film that starred Ray Milland and Jane Wyman, it reprints O-19 issued earlier in the series, 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 . | |
| [The West] Jackson, Joseph Henry. Anybody's Gold. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1970, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "The story of California's mining towns," illustrated, with a foreword by Wallace Stegner. Fine in a near fine jacket. | |
| [Wallace Stegner] Jacobson, Yvonne. Passing Farms: Enduring Values. Los Altos, William Kaufmann, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Photo-illustrated study of California's Santa Clara Valley, with a foreword by Wallace Stegner, includes the publisher's errata slip, this copy Signed by Yvonne Jacobson. Some edgewear to jacket, else fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Jaffe, Bernard. Men of Science in America. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 809 in this important series, "the role of science in the growth of our country," 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. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] James, Henry. Daisy Miller And Other Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-18 in this important series, a paperback original, selected stories, 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] James, M. R. Selected Ghost Stories. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. O-28 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. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] James, Marquis. Andrew Jackson The Border Captain. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. K-23 in this important series, a Pulitzer Prize winner, 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. | |
| [Modern Literature] James, P. D. A Taste for Death. NY, Knopf, 1986, first American edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Another Adam Dalgliesh mystery. Fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jeffers, Robinson and Una. A Book of Gaelic Airs for Unaıs Melodeon. San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1989, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. One of 500 copies printed on acid-free paper, a manuscript of Gaelic songs by Una and illustrations by Robinson, rumpled prospectus laid in. As new . | |
| [Modern Literature] Jeffers, Robinson et al. Fifty Years of American Poetry. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. An anniversary volume for the Academy of American Poets, introduction by Robert Penn Warren, wood engravings by Barry Moser, preface by Marie Bulloch, includes Edgar Lee Masters, Ezra Pound, Robinson Jeffers, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Kenneth Rexboth, William Carlos Williams, Daniel Berrigan, John Updike, Stan Rice, Sylvia Plath, Robert Penn Warren, Charles Simic, and many others. Fine in a nearly fine jacket. | |
| [Miscellaneous] Jenkins, John H. A Full Howes. Austin, The Jenkins Company, 1981, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. "A Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets Listed in Wright Howes' U.S.iana," this was the firm's catalogue 127, includes corrections to Howes as well as an introduction by Jenkins. Top and bottom of spine beginning to chip, very good. | |
| [The West] Jenkins, Olaf P. (editor). Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 - Sierran Gold Belt The Mother Lode Country. San Francsico, Division of Mines (State of California Department of Natural Resources), Sept. 1948, first edition. The Centennial edition, this is Bulletin 141, with color and b&w illustrations, includes chapters on Sierran roads, the discovery of gold in California, the history of placer mining, the geologic history of the Sierran gold belt, the history of mining and milling methods in California, etc. Heavy wear to bottom corners, else very good. | |
| [Miscellaneous] Jernegan, Marcus Wilson et al. Progress of Nations. Chicago, Disabled American Veterans, 1930, first edition. 10 volume hardcover set uniformly bound in full greenish leather with gilt decorations to each volume's front panel and with gilt titles and decorations to each volume's spine, TEG, illustrated endpapers, each copy was registered in the name of the original subscriber, this world history was "Chronicled with the assistance of eminent historians from leading universities and colleges, color frontispiece to each volume and each volume also illustrated with numerous halftones, etchings, and color plates, also illustrated with maps, plans, and charts. A fine set. | |
| [Miscellaneous] (JFK). The Kennedys. NY, Harrison and Winter, Inc., 1962, first edition. A then new board game "of intra-family power struggle" that features JFK, RFK, Teddy, John-John, Caroline, and Jackie Kennedy, all of whom are featured on the box top in the fashion of heads on Mount Rushmore, family patriarch Joe Kennedy is featured on the money to be used in the game, the game was created by then-recent Harvard graduates, Alfred C. Harrison, Jr. and John Winter, game players choose their favorite Kennedy "who strives to triumph over his relatives in the contest for highest national prominence," the game is referred to as both an exercise in satire and "also an ingeniously-devised game of strategy," unfortunately, JFK was assassinated just as this game was coming to market, very scarce thus. Practically as new, still in the original box, the game itself is unopened, un-used. | |
| [Miscellaneous] Johnson, Allen (editor). The Chronicles of America Series. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1919, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. A complete set of all 50 volumes of the "extra-illustrated" edition, all uniformly bound in blue cloth with titles and authors in gilt along with gilt designs on front covers and spines, many volumes have color fold-out maps, there are many illustrations with tissue guards as well as other color and b&w illustrations, TEG, in addition to the complete 50 volumes, there is an additional volume titled The Yale Course of Home Study which is a supplementary volume to this series in a similar binding, finding a complete set is quite difficult, the first volume in the set has a clear plastic dust jacket, none of the other volumes have a jacket. Uniformly fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] Johnson, Diane. Lying Low. NY, Knopf, 1978, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Signed. Very faint remainder mark to bottom edge, else fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Johnson, Gerald W. A Little Night Music. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 735 in this important series, "discoveries in the exploitation of an art," 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] Johnson, Gerald W. A Little Night Music. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 735 in this important series, "discoveries in the exploitation of an art," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Chipping to front cover, good. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Johnson, Lyndon Baines. The Inaugural Address of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, January 20, 1965, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. With frontispiece photo portrait of LBJ with a facsimile of his signature, although he is not credited as such, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck contributed to this speech, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne. Fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Johnson, Osa. I Married Adventure. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. E-141 in this important series, authored by the wife of adventurer Martin Johnson, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, scarce. Nearly fine, especially scarce in this condition. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. Black Market. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, April 1946, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Arthur C. Clarke, Theodore Sturgeon. Very good minus. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. I Tell You Three Times. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, February 1951, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Murray Leinster. Becoming dis-bound. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. Renaissance. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, July 1944, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Part one of three parts, also includes Fritz Leiber, Willy Ley. Tape reinforced. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. Renaissance. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, October 1944, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Conclusion of three parts, also includes Isaac Asimov, Lester del Rey, Willy Ley. Tape reinforced. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. Renaissance. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, September 1944, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Part three of four parts, also includes Clifford D. Simak, A. E. van Vogt, Fritz Leiber. Tape reinforced. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. The Farthest Horizon. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, April 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short story. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. The Great Grey Plague. NY, Analog, February 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short novel. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. The Toymaker. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, September 1946, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Isaac Asimov. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. Tools of the Trade. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, November 1950, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Poul Anderson, L. Sprague de Camp. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Jones, Raymond F. Trade Secret. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, November 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short novel, also includes James Blish. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Joyce, James. Songs to Texts by James Joyce. NY, Lyrichord, n.d. (c.1950s), first edition. With album slipcover, songs are sung by Patricia Neway, soprano, with Robert Colston, piano, side one is from Chamber Music, Pomes Pennyeach, and Finnegan's Wake, side two is from Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses, the album is No. LL83. The record is unplayed in a fine album slipcover. | |
| [Modern Literature] Judd, Cyril. Mars Child. NY, Galaxy, May 1951, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Part one, also includes Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Judd, Cyril. Mars Child. NY, Galaxy, June 1951, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Second installment, also includes Edgar Pangborn, Damon Knight. Very good. | |
| [The West] Kahn, Edgar M. R. L. S. A Warm-Hearted Friend of Humanity. San Francisco, n.p., 1964, first edition, stapled self-wrappers. Softcover. Frontispiece photo of Robert Louis Stevenson and with other photo illustrations, it concerns Stevenson's time in Hawaii, printed by Lawton Kennedy. Rusted staples, else fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kains, M. G. Five Acres and Independence. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 889 in this important series, "selecting and managing the small farm," illustrated, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Bright, clean, nearly fine. | |
| [The Orient] Kaneko, Hisakazu. Manjiro, The Man Who Discovered America. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1956, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "A human document dealing with a delightful episode in early American-Japan relations". Tiny bit of corner bumping, else fine in a fine, bright jacket. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinlay. The Noise of Their Wings. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. K-6 in this important series, a novel set in Florida, 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. Solid very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinley. Authorıs Choice. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 813 in this important series, selected short stories, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, abridged, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Moderate front cover creasing. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinley. Authorıs Choice. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 813 in this important series, selected short stories, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, abridged, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Poor. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kantor, MacKinley. Authorıs Choice. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 813 in this important series, selected short stories, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, abridged, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Karig, Commander Walter and Kelley, Lt. Wellbourn. Battle Report. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-31 in this important series, Pearl Harbor to Coral Sea, with 13 maps, a narrative of the American Navy, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Cover creases else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Keats, John. Selected Poems of John Keats. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. R-2 in this important series, edited 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. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Keats, John. Selected Poems of John Keats. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. R-2 in this important series, edited 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. Cover creases, else very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Keillor, Garrison. Lake Wobegon Days. NY, Viking, 1985, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kelland, Clarence Budington. Arizona. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), second A. S. E. issue, wrappers. Softcover. No. 707 in this important series, a Western and film source, it re-prints A. S. E. No. I-255, 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] Kendrick, Baynard. Blind Manıs Bluff. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 786 in this important series, a (blind) Duncan Maclain mystery, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus with cover creases. | |
| [Modern Literature] Kerouac, Jack. Satori in Paris. NY, Grove Press, Nov. 30, 1966, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Review Copy with review slip. Slip is very good, both book and jacket are fine. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Kiernan, Thomas. The Intricate Music. Boston, Little, Brown, 1979, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A dubious biography liberally influenced from the written work of Steinbeck's life-long friend and college roommate, Carlton "Dook" Sheffield, jacket front and frontispiece photo of Steinbeck by Phillippe Halsman, Morrow 652. Fine in a very good plus jacket. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. G-198 in this important series, a story of Indian social life, character, custom and religion, 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. Tiny bit oddly cut, very good plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kirkbride, Ronald. Winds, Blow Gently. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 957 in this important series, a novel of a Quaker family, 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. Clean very good plus. | |
| [Modern Literature] Kittredge, William. The Van Gogh Field and Other Stories. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1978, first edition. Author's First Book, issued without dust jacket, a very scarce and desirable collection of eight short stories by an author who today is one of the most well-respected of all "Western" authors, this copy is Signed by Kittredge who also adds a brief quote from the book, laid in loosely is a single sheet prospectus for the book which was issued as part of Breakthrough Books via the University of Missouri Press. Fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] Knight, Damon. Four in One. NY, Galaxy, February 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Theodore Sturgeon, Clifford D. Simak. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Knight, Damon. Satisfaction. NY, Analog, August 1964, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short story. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Knight, Damon. The Visitor at the Zoo. NY, Galaxy, April 1963, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short novel. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kober, Arthur. My Dear Bella. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. O-8 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. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Kober, Arthur. Thunder Over the Bronx. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 697 in this important series, humorous sketches, with a note about the author at the end, introduction by Dorothy Parker, illustrated with cartoons by Hoff, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good plus. | |
| [Modern Literature] Kolpacoff, Victor. The Prisoners of Quai Dong. NY, New American Library, 1967, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Authorıs First Novel, controversial in that Kolpacoff had not been to Vietnam when he wrote the novel, small print-run. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Komroff, Manuel. Coronet. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. C-89 in this important series, a historical 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 a very scarce D-Day ASE. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Koontz, Dean. Intensity. NY, Knopf, 1996, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A novel of suspense that takes place in 24 hours within California's wine country in the Napa Valley, this copy Signed by Dean Koontz. Fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] Koontz, Dean R. Cold Fire. NY, Putnam, 1991, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisherıs slipcase, one of 750 copies Signed by Koontz, originally published at $150. As new inpublisherıs shrink-wrap. | |
| [Modern Literature] Koontz, Dean R. Hideaway. NY, Putnam, 1992, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With publisherıs slipcase, one of 850 copies Signed by Koontz, originally published at $150. As new in publisherıs shrink-wrap. | |
| [Jack London] Koppel, David. Success. Alameda, David Koppel, 2005, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A stage adaptation of Jack London's Mafrtin Eden, this copy Inscribed by Koppel. Nearly fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] Kornbluth, C. M. That Share of Glory. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, January 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Jack Vance, Lester del Rey. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Kovic, Ron. Born on the Fourth of July. Playboy, July 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. The issue also includes humor by Art Buchwald and fiction by Harry Crews. Near fine. | |
| [The Orient] Kozaki, Rev. Hiromichi. Reminiscences of Seventy Years. Tokyo, Christian Literature Society of Japan, n.d. (c.1933), first English language edition. "The autobiography of a Japanese pastor," translated by his brother, Nariaki Kozaki, newspaper obituaries of Rev. Kozaki affixed to front pastedown and ffep. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Krauss, Ruth. A Hole Is To Dig. NY, Harper & Bros., 1952, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A first book of first definitions illustrated (charmingly) by Maurice Sendak, Sendak illustrates internally as well as on both endpapers and the dust jacket, while this is a second issue with Grr-r-r on (unpaginated) page 23, it retains the $1.50 price on the jacket, the teal green spine on the book, and the 30-70 code on the front jacket flap. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Krauss, Ruth. I'll Be You And You Be Me. NY, Harper & Bros., 1954, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak internally as well as on both endpapers and dust jacket, with all the proper first edition points ($1.75 price on jacket with both 30-70 No. 5226A code on front jacket flap and No. 5227A code on rear jacket flap). A very pleasing copy. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Krim, Seymour. Shake It For The World. London, Allison & Busby, 1970, first British edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Title revised from the original American edition, includes a brief chapter on John Steinbeckıs funeral service, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne. Fine. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Krim, Seymour. Shake It For The World, Smartass. NY, Dial Press, 1970, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Essays by this ³Beat² writer, including ³When We Went to John Steinbeckıs Funeral Service: This Is What Happened,² 375-378, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne. Very good plus. | |
| [Modern Literature] Krishnamurti, J. Meditations. NY, Harper & Row, 1979, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Color frontispiece photo of Krishnamurti. Fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. NY, Harper & Row, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim, a novel. Minor stain to front edge of text block, else fine in a jacket with a half-inch tear to the rear panel. | |
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