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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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| [The West] California History Nugget. Los Angeles, California State Historical Association, 1928, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A run of several issues starting with Vol. 2, No. 1 (October 1928), also including March 1929, April-May 1931, November 1937 (two copies), December 1937, January 1938, February 1938, March 1938, October 1938, November 1938, February 1939, October 1939, November 1939, December 1939, January 1940, and March 1940. Several copies with library markings, good. | |
| [Miscelleaneous] (Fishing Journal). 1916, first edition. A home-made journal of a fishing trip to Big Meadows/Feather River/Reno-Tahoe/1916 made via auto, referred to as "the machine," with eight single-spaced typewritten (rectos only) leaves detailing the trip followed by mounted photos of the trip, also included is a folding map used on the trip entitled Map of the Feather River Highway compiled July 14 for the Feather River Highway Association of Northeastern California by B. F. Barbee, all housed in a period Photographs book. Good. | |
| [Miscellaneous] The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London, George G. Harrap & Co., n.d. (c.1930s), first edition thus. Limp seude, TEG, it measures c.2.75X4 inches, issued as part of the Sesame Booklets, color frontispiece. Very good. | |
| [The West] The Sunset Route and Scene Wonders of Arizona from El Paso, Texas to Los Angeles, Cal. Via the Southern Pacific. Chicago, Curt Teich & Co., n.d. (c.1915), first edition, string-tied wrappers. Softcover. For sale only on trains on the Sunset Route or through the Van Noy-Interstate Company of San Francisco, with front cover in-set illustration and with 25 beautiful color illustrations "of the most interesting views seen along the route," one illustration is a double-spread. One illustration is missing, else very good. | |
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