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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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| [Modern Literature] Parker, Robert B. Pale Kings And Princes. NY, Delacorte, June 1987, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, one of 500 numbered copies with a special Signed bookplate affixed to inside front cover. Fine. | |
| [Miscelleaneous] Pasteur, L. Studies on Fermentation. London, Macmillan, 1870, first edition thus. This hardcover is the first English language edition on this book by Pasteur on "the diseases of beer their causes, and the means of preventing them" as translated and made with Pasteur's sanction (with notes, index, and original illustrations) by Frank Faulkner and D. Constable Robb, with many illustrations, including several microscopic views with tissue guards, very scarce. Very good. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Patrick, Ted. The Thinking Dog's Man. NY, Random House, 1964, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "The mystique of the relationship between man and his dog," illustrated by Roy McKie, includes a letter from John Steinbeck explaining why he could not write an introduction for this book, Goldstone & Payne B145. Fine. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Paul, Louis. The Wrong World. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1938, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Paul was at this time a friend and correspondent of John Steinbeck, as witnessed by the dedication of the book (To the author of The Pastures of Heaven affectionately), this book wasn't recorded by Goldstone & Payne nor the Morrow catalogue. Ink name, minor wear, else fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Peattie, Donald Culross. Forward The Nation. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. H-218 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. Very good plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Peattie, Donald Culross. Journey Into America. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. G-199 in this important series, covers the early American past, 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] Peattie, Roderick. Geography in Human Destiny. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-12 in this important series, with original maps and charts drawn by Arthur H. Robinson, 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] Peattie, Roderick. Geography in Human Destiny. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-12 in this important series, with original maps and charts drawn by Arthur H. Robinson, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Peattie, Roderick. Geography in Human Destiny. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. R-12 in this important series, with original maps and charts drawn by Arthur H. Robinson, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Front cover well worn, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Peattie, Roderick. Look to the Frontiers. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 661 in this important series, "a geography for the peace table," 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] Peattie, Roderick. Look to the Frontiers. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 661 in this important series, "a geography for the peace table," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [The West] Pennell, Joseph. San Francisco The City of the Golden Gate. Boston, Le Roy Phillips, n.d. (1916), first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. "Being twenty-five reproductions in photogravure from etchings & drawings," issued as part of the publisher's The City Series, jacket is glued to boards along the spine. Foxed, moderate wear to jacket, else very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Pennell, Joseph Stanley. The History of Rome Hanks. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-36 in this important series, a historical 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] Pennell, Joseph Stanley. The History of Rome Hanks. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-36 in this important series, a historical novel, 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] Pennell, Joseph Stanley. The History of Rome Hanks. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-36 in this important series, a historical novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Fair. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Pennell, Joseph Stanley. The History of Rome Hanks. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-36 in this important series, a historical 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] Perdue, Virginia. Alarum And Excursion. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. S-16 in this important series, a mystery, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Solid very good plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Perelman, S. J. Crazy Like A Fox. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 872 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-minus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Perelman, S. J. The Dream Department. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. N-2 in this important series, 25 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] 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. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Peters, Robert. The Great American Poetry Bake-Off. Metuchen, Scarecrow Press, 1979, first edition. Issued without jacket, includes The Hitherto Neglected Works of Amnesia Glasscock, 73-77, which he purports to be authored by John Steinbeck and which, according to Peters, show Steinbeckıs homosexual side, these poems were later attributed to Steinbeckıs first wife, Carol, although Peters still insists that authorship is conjectural. Fine. | |
| [Modern Literature] Petersen, Carl. Each In Its Ordered Place: A Faulkner Collector's Notebook. Ann Arbor, Ardis, 1975, first edition. A photo-copy of this bibliography which is essential for any Faulkner collector, its was originally published as a leatherette hardcover with dust jacket (one of 1,000 copies). Fine. | |
| [Wallace Stegner] Peterson, Diane. Catalogue Twelve Wallace Stegner. Atherton, Diane Peterson Book Lady, Feb. 1992, first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover. Includes 210 items from the collection of Maurice Dunbar, with color photo of Stegner and Dunbar affixed to first preliminary, front cover illustration from Stegnerıs Beyond The Hundredth Meridian, one of only 150 copies of this Catalogue 12, an excellent reference, this copy Signed by Wallace Stegner. Fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Pierson, Louise Randall. Roughly Speaking. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. E-143 in this important series, an autobiography, scarce, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Solid very good. | |
| [Steinbeckiana] Pinchon, Edgcumb. Zapata the Unconquerable. NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1941, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover. Frontispiece portrait of Emiliano Zapata, a "biography of a great leader in the Mexican revolution of 1910," this was undoubtedly a source book for John Steinbeck in his writing the screenplay for Viva Zapata!, map endpapers, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne nor Morrow. Very good . | |
| [Modern Literature] Piper, H. Beam. Day of the Moron. NY, Astounding Science Fiction, September 1951, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Willy Ley. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Piper, H. Beam. Gun Powder God. NY, Analog, November 1964, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Piper, H. Beam. Space Viking. NY, Analog, November 1962, first edition , wrappers. Softcover. First of four parts. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Piper, H. Beam. Space Viking. NY, Analog, December 1962, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Second of four parts. Very good. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Poe, Edgar Allan. Selected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), second A. S. E. issue, wrappers. Softcover. No. 767 in this important series, it reprints A. S. E. issue No. J-297, includes a foreword by Louis Untermeyer, with a note about the author at the end, includes The Gold Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, Berenice, and others, 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] Poe, Edgar Allan. Selected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), second A. S. E. issue, wrappers. Softcover. No. 767 in this important series, it reprints A. S. E. issue No. J-297, includes a foreword by Louis Untermeyer, with a note about the author at the end, includes The Gold Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, Berenice, and others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Poe, Edgar Allan. The City in the Sea and Other Poems. Holland, The Busy Bee, n.d. (c.1940), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 354 of 500 numbered copies printed on Dutch hand-made paper, designed by S. H. de Roos, printed in secret "somewhere in occupied Holland," illustrated by Fred Ingram, scarce. Some wear and age, else very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederic and Kornbluth, C. M. The Quaker Canon. NY, Analog, August 1961, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Drunkard's Walk. NY, Galaxy, June 1960, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First of two parts, also includes Fredric Brown. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Drunkard's Walk. NY, Galaxy, August 1960, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Second of two parts, also includes Christopher Anvil. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Grandy Devil. NY, Galaxy, June 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short story, also includes Robert Sheckley. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. My Lady Greensleeves. NY, Galaxy, February 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novella, also includes Christopher Anvil, Robert Sheckley. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Pythias. NY, Galaxy, February 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Slave Ship. NY, Galaxy, March 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First of three parts, also includes L. Sprague de Camp. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Slave Ship. NY, Galaxy, April 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Second of three parts, also includes Robert Sheckley. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Slave Ship. NY, Galaxy, May 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Last of three parts. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Survival Kit. NY, Galaxy, May 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Fritz Leiber, Clifford D. Simak. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. The Bitterest Pill. NY, Galaxy, April 1959, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short story, also inclujdes Cordwainer Smith. Rear cover detached. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. The Day the Icycle Works Closed. NY, Galaxy, February 1960, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Clifford D. Simak. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. The Gentlest Unpeople. NY, Galaxy, January 1958, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Fritz Leiber. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. The Haunted Corpse. NY, Galaxy, January 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A short story. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. The Knights of Arthur. NY, Galaxy, January 1958, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Clifford D. Simak. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. The Man Who Ate the World. NY, Galaxy, November 1956, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Lester del Rey. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. The Tunnel Under the World. NY, Galaxy, January 1955, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novelette, also includes Theodore Sturgeon. Very god. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik. Whatever Counts. NY, Galaxy, June 1959, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A novella, also includes Avran Davidson. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik and Kornbluth, C. M. Gladiator at Law. NY, Galaxy, June 1954, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. First installment, also inclujdes William Tenn. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Pohl, Frederik and Kornbluth, C. M. Wolf Bane. NY, Galaxy, November 1957, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. Last of two parts. Very good. | |
| [Miscellaneous] Porter, Eliot. Galapagos The Flow of Wildness. San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1968, first edition, dust jackets. Hardcover. Two volumes housed in publisher's slipcase, Volume One is titled Discovery, foreword by David Brower, introduction by Loren Eisley, with selections from Herman Melville, Charles Darwin, J. R. Slevin, William Beebe, and others, the whole edited by Kenneth Brower, Volume Two is titled Prospect, introduction by John R. Milton, text by Eliot Porter and Kenneth Brower, this volume also profusely illustrated with Porter's magnificent photos, the whole also edited by Kenneth Brower, these are Vols. 19 and 20 in the Sierra Club's Exhibit Format Series. Volumes are as new, jacket for Vol. One has two tiny nicks, else as new, jacket for Vol. Two is as new, slipcase with some wear. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Porter, Katherine Anne. Selected Short Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. A paperback original, No. R-21 in this important series, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Miscellaneous] Porter, Rufus. Aerial Navigation. San Francisco, Lawton R. Kennedy, 1935, first edition thus. This slim hardcover is a reprint of the 1849 edition published by H. Smith, this is one of 200 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy, it is subtitled "The practicality of traveling pleasantly and safely from New York to California in three days," introduction by Lt. Commander H. V. Wiley of the U. S. S Macon, illustrated with three colored lithographs "issued as a burlesque in 1849" by N. Curier and A. Donnelly, this is a scarce Gold Rush/Airship/Fine Press book. Large chip to frontispiece illustration, apparently in the manufacturing process, else near fine. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Powers, Tom. Virgin With Butterflies. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 831 in this important series, a humorous novel and one with a title sure to entice GI readers, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Good. | |
| [Miscellaneous] Pratt, Fletcher. A Short History of the Army and Navy. Washington D. C., Infantry Journal Penguin Books, March 1944, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. S224, a paperback original, "a completely new an d concise history written especially for this series," with 24 map illustrations. Very good plus. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Pratt, Theodore. The Barefoot Milkman. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 793 in this important series, a novel set in Florida, 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] Pratt, Theodore. Thunder Mountain. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. N-18 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. | |
| [Armed Services Editions] Prochnow, Herbert (editor). Great Stories From Great Lives. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 810 in this important series, a biographical anthology, includes material by Carl Sandberg on Lincoln, Douglas Freeman on Robert E. Lee, Frank Graham on Lou Gehrig, Stephen Leacock on Charles Dickens, Irving Stone on Clarence Darrow, etc., 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] Prokosch, Frederic. The Asiatics. NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 764 in this important series, his first novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good. | |
| [Modern Literature] Purdy, Ken. Change of Plan. Playboy, July 1963, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. The issue also includes an editorial by Hugh Hefner, fiction by Jules Feiffer, a memoir by Ben Hecht, and satire by Shel Silverstein. Very good plus. | |
| [Modern Literature] (Pynchon, Thomas). Essays on Thomas Pynchon. NY, ³Twentieth Century Literature², May 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover. The entire issue of this scholarly magazine is devoted to Pynchon. Light wear, else fine. | |
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