Recent Arrivals from James M. Dourgarian, Bookman

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1979, first edition thus.. Full leather, gilt titles and decor, AEG, ribbon place market, marble endpapers, illustrated by F. W. Pailthorpe. Fine.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 703 in this important series, Steinbeck's second book, a short story collection that some consider his best book, Goldstone & Payne A2k, Morrow 18, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1984, first edition.. Full leather, title, author, and decor in gilt, AEG, ribbon place marker, illustrated by Daniel Maffia, with an editor's note and a special message from Oates, Signed by her. Fine.

NY, Walter J. Black, n.d., first edition thus.. All in one volume. Very good.

NY, Charles Scriber's Sons, 1896, first edition.. 10 volumes, each devoted to a specific country -- Scotland (J. M. Barrie, R. L. Stevenson, etc.), Ireland (Jane Barlow, etc.), Africa (A. Conan Doyle, etc.), France (Wilkie Collins, R. L. Stevenson, etc.), The Orient (Rudyard Kipling, etc.), London (J. M. Barrie, etc.), England (Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, etc.), Italy… Read more about this item

Bosrton, Houghton, Mifflin, 1883, first edition.. Full leather, AEG, this is Vol. III, illustrated, with a biographical sketch by Octavius B. Frothingham, frontispiece illustration of Longfellow, this NOT a print-on-demand abominationF. Ink 1935 gift inscription and a previous owner's name, very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. T-5 in this important series, a novel by Steinbeck that is a minor (or not so minor) masterpiece which disguises its themes of death and loneliness with a layer of humor, Goldstone & Payne A22f, not recorded by Morrow, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime,… Read more about this item

NY, Walter J. Black, n.d., first edition thus.. Selection based on the translation of Burton, all in one volume. Very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. A-2, just the second title issued in this important series, this "message to the American people" came from the U. S. Ambassador to Japan from 1932-1941, Grew also provides the preface, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World… Read more about this item

Tokyo, Nan'un-do Co., Ltd., 1986, first edition, first printing, wrappers. Softcover.. With its covering dust jacket featuring a picture of a very young John Steinbeck aboard his red pony with his sister, Mary, edited and with notes by Kiyoshi Nakayama, it includes His Father, The Summer Before, How Edith McGillcuddy Met R. L. Stevenson, Reunion at the Quiet Hotel,… Read more about this item

NY, Walter J. Black, n.d., first edition thus.. Includes tales and novels in one volume. Very good.

Lausanne, Edita, 1966, first edition.. Full leather, subtitled "Being a Nineteenth Century Journey through the most Picturesque Portions of North America, Reconstructed from Accounts by European Visitors; the Whole Embellished with Watercolour Drawings and Engravings of the Period," passages from the French, German, and Italian languages translated by D. B. Tubbs, preface by Jobe, includes a map of the… Read more about this item

NY, Walter J. Black, n.d., first edition thus.. Includes a special biographical introduction by Hervey Allen, tales and poems all in one volume. Very good.

Garden City, Doubleday, 1952, first edition thus.. Two volumes, issued without dust jackets, but with publisher's slipcase. Both volumes fine, slipcase near fine.

NY, Walter J. Black, n.d., first edition thus.. All in one volume. Very good.

NY, Walter J. Black, n.d., first edition thus.. All works in one volume, includes poems, essays, biographical studies, and an address. Very good.

Gallup, Buffalo Medicine Books, 1991, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. First trade edition, one of 1,000 copies, this copy Signed by Bulow, also Signed by Tony Hillerman who offers the foreword and Navajo artist Ernest Franklin who illustrates the book, Bulow provides his own introduction, with notes and a bibliography at the end, this copy also with… Read more about this item

Avon, Heritage, 1969, first edition thus.. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele and Paul Gauguin, color illustrated endpapers, includes How This Book Came to Be by John T. Winterich. Fine in a very good slipcase.

NY, George Routledge and Sons, n.d., first edition thus.. Two volumes in one, leather spine and marbled boards, all edges marbled, endpapers and pastedowns also marbled, issued as part of the works of Dickens, illustrated, five raised bands. Very good.

NY, Walter J. Black, n.d., first edition thus.. Includes verse, ballads, and stories. Very good.