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

San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1994 (sic, actually issued in April 1995), first edition.. 12 grouped folders made for Club members as a keepsake by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press, Mt. View. Fine.

Boston, Little, Brown, n.d. (1927), first edition.. This is the advanced state of the dust jacket only (there is no book), rear dj flap is blank. Some creases, else fine.

NY, Avon Modern Short Story Monthly, 1945, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. This is No. 25 in this series, Steinbeck's short story appears on pages 11-22, text from The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne C63, not recorded by Morrow. Ink name, else near fine.

NY, Random House, 1959, first edition, first printing.. Lacking the dust jacket, Younger/Hirsch bibliography pgs. 78-80 (with the white dots), Inscribed by Dr. Seuss ("for/Scott Edmunds Goss/with Best Wishes.../Dr. Seuss"), scarce thus. Spine well-faded, extremity wear especially at corners, top and bottom of spine beginning to chip through to the boards.

NY, Arbor House, 1985, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Author's First Book, advance copy, an uncorrected proof of this biblio-mystery in which a John Steinbeck first edition is the main clue, this copy Inscribed by Warga, autographed note from Warga also laid in loosely. Light use.

n.p., n.p., n.d., first edition.. This is a nine-page typescript of this story about an American traveling through Siberia whose trains breaks down, while awaiting repairs, he happens upon a Black woman singing an old Southern song about "a little black baby who wasn't allowed to play with a little white baby, and pined away and died," the woman and her brother, American entertainers, had settled there, along with her elderly husband who owns a nearby vodka factory, they and other characters have dinner together until the man's train is repaired, although the title is given, no author is noted, but other ABAA members have indicated that this story is by Kenneth Roberts, it comes from the estate of his long-time friend and editor at Doubleday, Malcolm Johnson, with a letter of provenance from Johnson's daughter-in-law, the story is typed on rectos only (with the exception of the first page which was started on the verso for two lines until Roberts started over again), there are hand-corrections,… Read More

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, The Atlantic, June 1938, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Pages 741-749, Goldstone & Payne C30, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. A-13, just the 13th title issued in this important series, the third volume of his memoirs, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. 41st Special Services Unit headquarters stamp, aged, very good.

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, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Fonda's photo is featured on the front cover, being a celebration of his life and work, filled with photos from his films, including that of Fonda in his role as Tom Joad in the film version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Fine.

NY, Viking, 1946, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A Book of Banquets includes an excerpt from John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, pages 457-465, Goldstone & Payne B44, Morrow 330, Fisher's is often thought of as a great food writer, and she is, but is is also a great writer, period. Fine in a very good plus jacket.

NY, Harcourt, Brace, 1953, first American edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Pictorial endpapers front and rear, with a suite of photographs. One slight corner bump, else fine in a very good plus jacket.

Reader's Digest", September 1949, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Pages 19-21, Goldstone & Payne C75, not recorded by Morrow, this is an original story, not a reprint, that grew out of Steinbeck's experiences as a father of two boys that lived with their mother, but not with him, this story remained uncollected until 1986. Very good.

Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, September 1949, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Pages 19-21, this story remained uncollected until 1986, Goldstone & Payne C75, not recorded by Morrow. Near fine.

Costa Mesa, Mazda Publishers, 1994, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. This is Vol. II covering 1500 A.D. to the present, with 25 maps and 16 plates. Fine.

Chicago, The Book Collector's Packet, June 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. This monthly miscellany of fine press books, bibliography, typography, etc. was printed and published by The Black Cat Press which also printed Harry Thornton Moore's The Novels of John Steinbeck, this anecdotal section, "By A Wife," page 16, notes that she has been busy, "...the Steinbeck title alone being more than enough to keep me busy. Novels of John Steinbeck, a study of his writings and bibliography, is having a wide sale, for many people consider Steinbeck to best of the present day writers," not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine.

NY, Harper & Bros., 1952, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A first book of first definitions illustrated (charmingly) by Maurice Sendak, Sendak illustrates internally as well as on both endpapers and the dust jacket, while this is a second issue with Grr-r-r on (unpaginated) page 23, it retains the $1.50 price on the jacket, the teal green spine on the book, and the 30-70 code on the front jacket flap. Very good.

London, Nonesuch Press, 1963, first edition, first printing, dust jackets. Hardcover.. Three volumes of the authorized (or King James version of 1611) Bible, reprinted with the Apocrypha, with reproductions of 105 of the 16th Century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon, Vol. I is thre Old Testament Genesis to Kings, Vol. II is the Old Testament Chronicles to Malachi, Vol. II is the News Testament followed by the Apocrypha of the Old Testament. Fine.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1322, the last book issued in this important series, it's fitting that this story of a five-year odyssey across this country by Pyle would be the last book in the series, 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.