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

NY, Armed Services Editions, 1946, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1210 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, this is in the scarce upright/vertical format. Fade to spine, Corps of Engineers stamp, else very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. C-70 in this important series, a 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, this is one of the very scarce and important D-Day ASEs. Very good.

Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, November 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. A not very flattering review (more like a rebuke) of John Steinbeck's masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, pages 89-95, text from "Forum," this issue also includes Sherwood Anderson, Charles A. Lindbergh, and Antoine de Saint Exupery, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Near fine.

Palo Alto, American West Publishing, 1967, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Signed twice by Wallace Stegner, once at his introduction and again at his Carrion Spring contribution, Colberg B90, also includes John Steinbeck's The Leader of the People, pages 550-566, also includes Jack London, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, William Saroyan, etc. Age and soiling to textblock edges, else fine.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. B-44, just the 44th title in this important series, "my life with Mother's boarders," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.

NY, Paradon Publishing Company, 1975, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Text edited by Leo Hamalian, book written by Tcholakian and filled with his prolific photographs, photographic illustrated endpapers. Fine.

Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1957, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A record of twenty-five years," this scarce book is both a critical study and an anthology, it includes 29 articles by 17 critics such as Frederic I. Carpenter, Lewis Gannett, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Joseph Wood Krutch, Peter Lisca, Antonia Seixas (Ed Ricketts ex-wife), and others, as well as six "reactions" to criticism by Steinbeck, two of which appear for the first time here, as an anthology, it includes My Short Novels,Critics, Critics, Burning Bright, Critics--From a Writer's Viewpoint, A Letter on Criticism, On Steinbeck and His Critics, and Rationale by Steinbeck himself, Goldstone & Payne B104, Morrow 352, this is an Association Copy, being the copy of Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott, so written by DeMott on the front free endpaper, DeMott has been among the best of Steinbeck scholars for decades and is easily the most accessible writer who can explain and expound on Steinbeck in something… Read More

San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1988, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Foreword by James D. Hart, photogravure frontispiece portrait and 12 color reproductions of his work, printed on acid-free paper, one of 450 copies, prospectus laid in. As new, unread.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 714 in this important series, a classic dog story, illustrated by Robert L. Dickey, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Spine fade, else very good.

San Francisco, San Francisco Review of Books, Spring 1989, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. This is an excerpt from Terkel's introduction to the 50th anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath, 24, 29, it also includes a review by James D. Houston of both Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath edited by Robert DeMott and a reprinting of Steinbeck's The Harvest Gypsies, 25-26, also includes an article on Anne Rice. Fine.

San Francisco, Ransohoffs, 1938, first edition.. This is one of 200 hardcover copies printed for Ransohoffs by the Grabhorn Press, colored wood engravings by Mallette Dean. Some wear to spine, else near fine.

Salinas, The Valley Guild, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Pictorial jacket shows the Steinbeck House at 132 Central Avenue in Salinas, the Nobel Prize-winning author's home town, recipes edited by Kay Hillyard from the Steinbeck family, many of which are still served at the house, includes a preface by Elaine Steinbeck and both an introduction and a foreword by Lee Richard Hayman, photo illustrations by Steve Crouch, promotional materials laid in loosely. Fine.

Salinas, The Valley Guild, 1984, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Pictorial jacket shows the Steinbeck House at 132 Central Avenue in Salinas, the Nobel Prize-winning author's home town, this is No.92 of 500 numbered copies, recipes edited by Kay Hillyard from the Steinbeck family, many of which are still served at the house, includes a preface by Elaine Steinbeck and both an introduction and a foreword by Lee Richard Hayman, photo illustrations by Steve Crouch, promotional materials laid in loosely. Fine.

San Francisco, X-Ray Book Company, n.d. (1996), first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Hand-sewn wrappers, No. 277 of 300 numbered copies (there were also 26 lettered copies), this reprints Thompson's obituary of Timothy Leary which was originally published in "Rolling Stone," Signed by "John B" who is the designer (along with Karoline Schleh), printed by hand in New Orleans by the New Orleans School of GlassWorks and Printmaking Studio, tipped onto the inside rear wrapper is a faux acid blotter sheet showing Leary's likeness in a multitude of small squares. Fine.

NY, Simon and Schuster, 2000, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This copy Signed in full by Thompson on the front free endpaper. Fine.

Tulsa, The Mid-West Printing Company, 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Issued as part of the American Guide Series, compiled by workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the state of Oklahoma then headed by Jim Thompson who went on to be best known as author of hardboiled crime fiction, most being paperback originals now highly sought, he was "discovered" generally after his death in 1977, films including The Getaway and The Grifters were made from his works,Thompson was director of the Oklahoma Federal Writers Project, Louis L'Amour worked under his direction, this was one of at least three books worked on by Thompson for the WPA as its Oklahoma director, this book precedes both his first short story appearance and his first hardcover, Now and On Earth. Slight fade to spine, else a fine, crisp, clean copy of a very scarce book.

Cotes du Nord, Sir Basil Thomson, 1933-1936, first edition.. This is a small archive of letters between Malcolm Johnson, an editor and executive with Doubleday, Doran, and Thomson, British colonial administrator to Fiji and Tonga, an author who wrote about these places, and a prison governor who eventually became head of the Criminal Investigations Department at the New Scotland Yard, the first letter is dated September 4, 1934 from Thomson to Johnson, he thanks him for the second edition of "P. C. Richardson's First Case" and reports that he is one-third through with its sequel, he adds, "What you tell me about police projects in America interests/me keenly. I am all in favor with Mr. Mulrooney's proposal to/introduce flogging as a deterrent because I know how it has worked/as a deterrent to highway robbery over here, but I am not in favour/of recurrent floggings. I have had to witness floggings in/British Convict Prisons and I can assure you that they are not/a pretty sight," adding, "If a… Read More

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1276 in this important series, "gay tale of mystery and young love in the Paris of another day," 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. Good.

Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1986, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This copy Inscribed by the author. Foxing to top and fore edges, else fine.

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1882, later printing.. With the first issue point of the Franklin Press notation on the copyright page, but with the errors on pages 124, 263, and 362 corrected, making this a second or later printing, with three blank leaves at the end, marbled endpapers and edges, with 192 illustrations, bound in publisher's three-quarters calf and marbled boards, with red spine panel for title and black spine panel for author, with other spine panels decorated in gilt. General wear, especially worn at extremities, else a very good copy.