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James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
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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 Orient] Chu, Arthur T. S. We Are Going to Make the Lousiest Chop Suey in Town. NY, Vantage Press, 1966, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A novel, this copy Inscribed by the author ("To our good friends/Bunny & Fred,/Sincerely,/Arthur Chu and/Grace Chu {the photographer}/Sept. 6, 1966"). Fine in a very good jacket. | |
| [The Orient] Clark, E. Warren. Katz Awa "The Bismarck of Japan" Or The Story of a Noble Life. NY, B. F. Buck & Company, 1904, first edition thus. Frontispiece photo of Katz Awa, plus nine other b&w photos. Very good. | |
| [The Orient] d'Argence, Rene-Yvon Lefebrvre. Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection. Berkeley, The De Young Museum Society, 1967, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Illustrated in color and b&w. Near fine. | |
| [The Orient] Dorrington-Ward, Carol. Fans From the East. NY, Debrett's Peerage Limited, 1978, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in both color and b&w. Fine in a near fine jacket. | |
| [The Orient] Fujioka, Ryoichi. Shino and Oribe Ceramics. NY, Kodansha International, 1977, first American edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Translated and adapted by Samuel Crowell Norse, issued as part of the Japanese Arts Library, profusely illustrated in both color and b&w. Fine. | |
| [The Orient] Greenbie, Sydney and Marjorie Barstow. Gold of Ophir. NY, Wilson-Erickson, 1937, second edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "The China trade in the making of America," this revised edition includes an introduction by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, frontispiece and seven other illustrations. Owner's stamp and ink name, place, and date, very good in a jacket which is chipped, torn and internally reinforced. | |
| [The Orient] Griffis, W. E. The Mikado's Empire. NY, Harper & Bros., 1900, ninth edition. Frontispiece and 107 other illustrations, plus one map, the book covers the history of Japan from 600 B. C. to 1872 with Book II covering personal experiences, observations, and studies in Japan 1870-1875, ex libris the Fletcher Memorial Library with bookplate, numbering, including a spine label, check-out chart, etc. Frontispiece nearly detached, very good-minus. | |
| [The Orient] Hartshorne, Anna C. Japan And Her People. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1902, first edition thus. Two volumes, both bound in red cloth with beautiful gilt cover designs, TEG, both volumes with frontispieces with tissue guards plus 24 other illustrations, both volumes with detached, but intact ribbon markers, fold-out color map at the end of Vol. II. Each volume with ink initials, rear hinge starting in Vol II, else a very good plus set. | |
| [The Orient] Hearn, Lafcadio. Kokoro. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1896, first edition. "Hints and echoes of Japanese inner life," magazine photo of Hearn tipped in, small newspaper article about Hearn affixed to front pastedown. Front hinge cracked, spine dulled, else very good. | |
| [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. | |
| [The Orient] Kozaki, Rev. Hiromichi. Reminiscences of Seventy Years. Tokyo, Christian Literature Society of Japan, n.d., 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. | |
| [The Orient] Reischauer, Edwin O. The Japanese. Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. A study of its land, agriculture, and natural resources, its historical background, society, politics, and its relationship with the rest of the world, photo-illustrated. Fine in a very good plus jacket. | |
| [The Orient] Scheurleer, D. F. Lunsingh. Chinese Export Porcelain Chine De Commande. NY, Pitman Publishing, 1974, first American edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Frontispiece and seven other color plates, also illustrated with b&w plates and drawings, the first extensive work in English on 17th and 18th Century Chinese export porcelain. Fine. | |
| [The Orient] Statler, Oliver. Shimoda Story. n.p. (NY), Random House, 1969, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. With 90 illustrations and four maps. Nearly fine. | |
| [The Orient] Statler, Oliver. The Black Ship Scroll. n.p., Weathermark Edition, February 1963, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. One of 1,500 copies privately printed for the Japan societies of San Francisco and New York, "an account of the Perry expedition at Shimoda in 1854 and the lively beginnings of people-to-people relations between Japan and America," with translations by Richard Lane and scroll paintings in full color by an anonymous Japanese eyewitness, these copies were not for sale, planned and produced by John Weatherhill, Tokyo, map endpapers. Fine in a very good jacket. | |
| [The Orient] Walsh, V. Rev. James A. Observations in the Orient. Ossining, Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, 1919, first edition. ''The account of a journey to Catholic mission fields in Japan, Korea, Manchuria, China, Indo-China, and the Philippines,'' by the superior of Maryknoll, frontispiece and 79 other illustrations. Front hinge broken, ex libris with number on spine and dedication page, but no other library evidence, else very good. | |
| [The Orient] Watanna, Onoto. A Japanese Nightingale. NY, Harper & Bros., October 1901, first edition, glassine dust jacket. Hardcover. Frontispiece and two other color illustrations by Genjiro Yeto, TEG. Bookseller's sticker, minor age, fine in glassine jacket that is aged and torn. | |
| [The Orient] Wilson, Carol Green. Chinatown Quest. Stanford University, Stanford University Press, 1931, first edition. The life adventures of Donaldina Cameron, frontispiece and other photo plates, this copy Signed by the author. Bookplate partially removed, front hinge broken, else very good. | |
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