Search Results: Authors starting with M from James M. Dourgarian, Bookman

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 978 in this important series, a prediction of wide-spread use of helicopters, both commercial and personal, illustrated by Erik Nitsche and Roslyn Welcher, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.

NY, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. An early novel from the creator of the Travis McGee mystery series. Very good.

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1972, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is the 12th Travis McGee mystery and the first American hardcover, it carries the proper $5.50 dust jacket price and the 372 code at the top of the front jacket flap, this was Adrian Goldstone's copy bearing his bookplate, Goldstone was perhaps the most noted collector of mystery/detective novels and his John Steinbeck collection was the basis for the Goldstone & Payne bibliography of Steinbeck. Very good in a fine dust jacket.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition , wrappers. Softcover.. No. 940 in this important series, a paperback original, short stories, scarce and desirable, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.

NY, Crown, 1971, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. There was both a hardcover and a wrappered version, includes essays in which well-known novelists "rediscover" neglected fiction by other authors, includes Robert Penn Warren, Evan Connell, Joyce Carol Oates, Anais Nin, Walker Percy as well as Wallace Stegner whose essay "rediscovers" Glenway Wescott's Good-Bye Wisconsin, Colberg B106, this copy Signed by Stegner. Fine.

n.p. (NY), Grosset & Dunlap, 1973, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Mailer provides the biography and the photographers provide the images, photographers include Richard Avedon, Cornell Capa, Milton H. Greene, Philippe Halsman, and many others. Fine in a price-clipped jacket with internal reinforcements.

NY, Random House, 1991, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A massive novel about spies, the CIA, Kennedy, Castro, and J. Edgar Hoover. Fine.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. A-20, just the 20th title issued in this important series, the story of weapons that save lives, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, a very scarce book. Discreet owner's name, very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. No. L-28 in this important series, a paperback original, translated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter, 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 minus.

NY, Dodd, Mead, 1938, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Golden Boy by Clifford Odets, and Of Mice and Men: Play by John Steinbeck, among others, which is the lead contribution, pages 31-66, Goldstone & Payne B5, Morrow 307. Fine, especially scarce in this condition.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1272 in this important series, as head of the Oslo Gang, Manus became "a successful leader of the resistance movement, the No. 1 Nazi enemy in Norway, and the national hero of his country," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good plus.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. E-146 in this important series, "a novel in the form of a memoir," a Pulitzer Prize winner, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Solid very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1225 in this important series, his first novel with a female protagonist, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good minus.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. D-120 in this important series, a satirical novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is one of the scarce and important D-Day Armed Services Editions issues. Solid very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1269 in this important series, a mystery novel with a theatrical setting by this woman writer from New Zealand, with a list of characters at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format . Fair.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1269 in this important series, a mystery novel with a theatrical setting by this woman writer from New Zealand, with a list of characters at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. D-119 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, this is one of the important and scarce D-Day Armed Services Editions issues. Very good plus.

NY, Viking, 1983, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This is the suppressed first edition, first issue, it explores the shoot-out near Wounded Knee, South Dakota that ended with the death of one Indian and two FBI agents and the subsequent incarceration of Leonard Peltier for murder, the book was recalled by the publisher because of lawsuits and was suppressed before being re-issued in 1991, this is one of the 1983 escapees, interestingly, the front free endpaper is stamped "International Office/of the/Leonard Peltier Defense Committee" along with its Seattle, WA address and phone number. Previous owner's ink name, address, and phone, rear jacket flap creased, else a nearly fine copy.

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, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. E-128 in this important series, a novel that paralells the life of Gauguin, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.