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

NY, Limited Editions Club, 1940, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. First issue, one of 12,000 copies, No. 1 in the series of Booklets for Bookmen, with its original envelope, later reprinted as A History of The Grapes of Wrath (that being one of 3,000 copies), this booklet also includes Did Shakespeare Translate The Decameron by Carter Meredith and Mr. Grahame, Mr. Roosevelt and I by A. A. Milne, Goldstone & Payne G23, Morrow 572. Near fine.

NY, Macmillan, 1937, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Map endpapers, these are travel sketches in Guatemala, with several suites of photographs, this copy Inscribed and dated in the month and year of publication by the author who was then the literary critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, it includes a blurb on the rear jacket panel by John Steinbeck about Jackson's earlier book, Mexican Interlude, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine in a very good jacket.

Los Angeles, Zamorano Club, 1996, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. One of 125 copies of this string-tied keepsake printed for a joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburge Clubs, designed and printed by William Erik Voss at the Lyceum Press, photo of Jeffers used as frontispiece provided by the Tilman Place Bookshop, San Francisco, it reprints Jeffers reviewing his own first book, Flagons and Apples, in the Los Angeles Times. Fine.

Los Angeles, Grafton Publishing Company, 1912, first edition, first printing.. This slim hardcover, the Author's First Book, was issued without a dust jacket, Jeffers paid to have the book published in an edition of 500 copies, with the vast majority of those sold to a used book store, his authorial credit uses his full name (later shortened to just Robinson Jeffers). Very good minus with general soiling and age, Holmes Book Company of Los Angeles stamp to front free endpaper, the word "Apples" on the spine label is mostly obscured, the front cover label has tiny chipping around the edges, not affecting any of the text or the decoration.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1226 in this important series, a historical novel, "slightly condensed," 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. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1306 in this important series, "witchcraft, privateering, smuggling, rum and slave running, and the years in which the spirit of liberty and independence was born," 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, Pantheon, 1999, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A novel, his breakthrough book, winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner award. Fine, unread.

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 United States and its territories in 1857, includes many tipped in color plates. Very good.

Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, January 20, 1965, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. With frontispiece photo portrait of LBJ with a facsimile of his signature, although he is not credited as such, Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck contributed to this speech, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne. Fine.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1310 in this important series, "a big three-generation novel that spans one hundred years of California history," 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, Pyramid Publications, 1973, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Issued as part of Pyramid's Illustrated History of the Movies series, it mentions John Steinbeck, who wrote the screenplay, and the film Viva Zapata!, pages 42-46, 67, 127, profusely illustrated with photos from Brando's films, including Viva Zapata!, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine.

Hamilton, NY, Philobiblon, 1974, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. A catalogue of a memorial exhibition of the mss., letters, editions, and memorabilia of Joseph Conrad in the Everett Needham Case Library at Colgate University, Philobiblon is the journal of the Friends of the Colgate University Library, the exhibition opened Aug. 3, 1974 marking the half centenary of the author's death, it closed on Nov. 30, 1974 marking the date of issue of his last complete work of fiction, with its errata slip, it begins with a brief biography of Conrad, followed by a description of the 41 items listed, illustrated. Minor age-toning to wrappers, else fine.