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James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
1595-B Third Avenue
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
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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] A Continuing History of Contra Costa County. Dublin-Danville, The Tri-Valley News, 1976, first edition, imitation leather. "An account of the events and people that contributed to the history of the Contra Costa community in thirteen weekly installments," published between April 16 and July 9, 1976 as special news supplements covering geology, the natives, the explorers, settlers, the gold rush, etc., one of just 400 copies, this copy Inscribed ("With best wishes,/Bobbie Davis"). Age-toned, near fine. | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front. NY, Book-of-the-Month Club News, May 1929, first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover. A review of the book as the June 1929 Book Club selection, with a photo of a very intense Remarque, laid in loosely is a rejection/substitution slip. Folded, else very nearly fine. | |
| [The West] California. San Francisco, John Howell-Books, 1979, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. This is Catalogue 50 by this legendary San Francisco bookseller, consisting of Parts I, II, and III, based on the collection of Jennie Crocker Henderson, with additions, also includes a note about Ms. Henderson by Warren Howell, Part I consists of items published before California was a state while Parts II and III consist of items published after California became a state, catalogues designed by Lawton Kennedy. Fine. | |
| [The West] California History Nugget. Los Angeles, California State Historical Association, 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. | |
| [John Steinbeck] Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories. NY, Avon, n.d. (1955), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 683, a paperback original, Willa Cather offers the title story with other contributions by Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others, including John Steinbeck who offers Johnny Bear, 54-68, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B84, not recorded by Morrow. Fine, unread copy, especially scarce thus. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Die Ameisenfauna Dzes Zehlaubruches. n.p., n.p., 1929, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A scholarly publication in German on ants, with illustrations at the end, this was W. C. Allee's copy with his "Allee" signature on front cover, this also carries his University of Chicago ownership stamp, plus an ownership stamp from Earlham College, Allee was an early and important influence on famed marine biologist Ed Ricketts and through him on John Steinbeck. Cheaply produced and with a few other markings, else very good. | |
| [Miscellaneous] Esquire 1948 Calendar. ³Esquire², 1948, first edition. Includes ³Essay on Jiggling² by George A. McNamara, color illustrations by many, including Ben-hur Baz who also illustrated the original envelope which houses the calendar. Calendar is fine in a good envelope. | |
| [Modern Literature] 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. | |
| [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. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Historic Cannery Row. Monterey, Cannery Row Foundation, 1984, first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover. A ³walking tour² pamphlet that includes a guide map of the original cannery sites, an index of historical landmarks, a Steinbeck ³neighborhood² map via a c.1939 photo of the Row and an evolutionary profile of the area. As new. | |
| [Modern Literature] James P. Blaylock Bibliography. Mission Viejo, ASAP (an Airtight Seels Allied Production), 1992, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A bibliography of American and English publications 1975-1992, introduction by William Ashbless, with front cover illustration and an afterward by Phil Parks, No. 136 of 225 wrappered copies Signed by Ashbless, Blaylock and Parks, there were another 25 copies issued in an acrylic slipcase also signed by all the contributors, this was the first project that Phil Parks and James T. Seels did together, so stated in an autographed letter signed by Jim Seels which is laid in loosely. Fine. | |
| [Film Memorabilia] Prisoner of War. MGM, 1954, first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover. An original-release film pressbook, 8 pages, includes several articles on Ronald Reagan as well as photos of him, shows examples of all posters, an excellent reference. Previously folded as usual, else near fine. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Stories for Tonight. NY, Avon, 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 644, a paperback original that includes John Steinbeck's ASnake of One's Own, 82-91, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B87, not recorded by Morrow, also includes contributions by William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, and others. Fine, unread copy, especially scarce thus. | |
| [Miscellaneous] The A. Edward Newton Collection Part Three: N-Z. NY, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1941, first edition. Introduction by Frederick Albert Pottle, with a blank bid sheet at the end. Very good. | |
| [The West] The Allen Press Bibliography, 1986. San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1985, first edition thus. This hardcover facsimile of the hand-printed 1981 Allen Press edition was issued without dust jacket, this issue includes important additions to date, original leaves and a complete checklist of ephemera, also includes an appreciation by Carey S. Bliss and an epilogue by Lewis Allen, one of 750 copies, with prospectus laid in. As new. | |
| [The West] The Library of Irving Whitmore Robbins, Jr. San Francisco, Pacific Book Auction Galleries, 1996, first edition. One of an unknown number of hardcover copies of this auction catalogue, issued without dust jacket, it lists 397 lots of Western Americana and related Pacific voyages, illustrated. Fine. | |
| The Little Bible. Elgin, IL, David C. Cook Publishing Company, n.d. (c.1954), first edition thus. Simulated white leather, it includes "selections from every book of the Bible as found in the King James version," special features include the Ten Commandments (abridged), The First Psalm, The Twenty-third Psalm, The One Hundred Twenty-first Psalm, The Beatitudes, The Lord's Prayer, and The Love Chapter, it includes 10 illustrations, this miniature measures c.1.75X2 inches. Yawns a bit, previous owner's name and Christmas 1954 date, very good. | |
| [Wallace Stegner] The Random House Preview Spring 1990. NY, Random House, n.d. (1989), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Includes selections from Peter Matthiessen, Seth Morgan, Maya Angelou, and Wallace Stegner who offers The Traveler from his then-forthcoming Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner, this copy is Signed by Stegner. Fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] The Real Mother Goose. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1919, first edition thus. This hardcover is a huge compilation of "rimes," profusely illustrated in color (some full page) by Blanche Fisher Wright. Moderate to heavy water damage to covers. | |
| [Miscellaneous] The Rhemes New Testament. San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1990, first edition thus, dust jacket. Hardcover. Printed by W. Thomas Taylor (of Austin), its history expounded by Decherd Turner, includes a leaf from the original edition as well as other illustrations, this book is also known as the Douai Bible, originally published in 1582, this was the first Roman Catholic New Testament in English, this is one of 395 copies, with prospectus laid in. As new . | |
| [Miscellaneous] The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London, George G. Harrap & Co., n.d., 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., 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. | |
| [Wallace Stegner] Wallace Earle Stegner 1909-1993. Walnut Creek, James M. Dourgarian, Bookman, 1994, first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover. Cover photo of Stegner by Leo Holub, this bookseller's Cat. 52, devoted exclusively to Stegner, it lists 234 items by and about Stegner, it also includes an introduction by Dourgarian as well as an essay by him about Stegner, it also includes essays about Stegner by his student and fellow author, Wendell Berry, as well as one by his fellow author and daughter-in-law Lynn Stegner, also includes an essay about collecting Stegner by Richard Kurtz, this copy inscribed by Dourgarian to a noted bibliophile. Fine. | |
| [Wallace Stegner] Wallace Earle Stegner 1909-1993. Walnut Creek, James M. Dourgarian, Bookman, 1994, first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover. Cover photo of Stegner by Leo Holub, this bookseller's Cat. 52, devoted exclusively to Stegner, it lists 234 items by and about Stegner, it also includes an introduction by Dourgarian as well as an essay by him about Stegner, it also includes essays about Stegner by his student and fellow author, Wendell Berry, as well as one by his fellow author and daughter-in-law Lynn Stegner, also includes an essay about collecting Stegner by Richard Kurtz, from a total print-run of 400 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies, this being Copy No. F. Fine. | |
| [Wallace Stegner] Wallace Stegner. Berkeley, Digger Pine Press, n.d. (c.1993), first edition. A letterpress-printed broadside, c.10X7 inches, designed and printed by Alan Hillesheim, printed as a tribute to the memory and work of Wallace Stegner by the San Francisco Bay Area Book Council which had awarded Stegner the Fred Cody Award for lifetime achievement, the perimeter of the broadside prints many of his book titles, it also excerpts a small piece from Angle of Repose, now housed in a professionally made frame of glass and wood. As new. | |
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