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

NY, National Book Foundation, 1992, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. It lists finalists and winners from 1950 to 1991, it also notes those who were given special citations, it notes that John Steinbneck was nominated for East of Eden in 1953, page 5, and also for Sweet Thursday in 1955, page 6. Fine.

Life", April 7, 1941, self-wrappers. Softcover.. This magazine appearance by Wright is subtitled "Best-Selling Novel Is Turned Into Tense Drama Strikingly Staged by Orson Welles". Very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. B-54 in this important series, an autobiography described as "an American immigrant visits Yugoslavia and discovers his old country," 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. Spine a bit dulled and some soiling, else very good.

Berkeley, The Nature Company, 1986, second printing.. Issued without dust jacket, but with publisher's slipcase, prepared in conjunction with The Yolla Bolly Press, with notes on the 60 plates at the end, foreword by Barry Lopez, Holmes provides his own introduction, this copy is Signed by Joseph Holmes. Fine.

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 an original color illustration of a magnificent elk, Signed by Franklin. Fine.

Santa Fe, New Mexico Magazine, July 1992, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Pages 66-69, illustrated by Gregory Truett Smith, this copy Signed by Hillerman, also includes John Nichols. Rear wrapper rubbed, else fine.

NY, Esquire, September 1975, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Pages 69, 142-143, not recorded by Morrow. Fine.

NY, Harper & Row, 1973, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Wolfe first writes about the new journalism which is followed by an anthology of just that - new journalism by distinguished authors, the anthology is edited by Wolfe and E. W. Johnson, it includes selections by Truman Capote (from In Cold Blood), Terry Southern (Twirling at Ole Miss), Hunter S. Thompson (The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved), Norman Mailer (from Armies of the Night), Tom Wolfe (from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), George Plimpton (from Paper Lion), and many others, this copy is Inscribed by Wolfe on the title page, Hunter S. Thompson has Signed his initials on page 174 of his contribution, Ralph Steadman has Inscribed and Signed the book on page 175 onto which he has contributed an original drawing. Near fine.

NY, Ballantine Books, 1956, first edition thus, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This scarce and very collectible Ballantine hardcover was published simultaneously with the paperback, it includes four short novels, the first of which to be selected for inclusion in this book was Stegner's Field Guide to the Western Birds, it also includes Norman Mailer's The Man Who Studied Yoga, Colberg B40 identifies this title, but that undoubtedly was the paperback and not this very scarce Ballantine hardcover (an extremely collectible series in its own right), this copy bound in slate blue cloth with black lettering on the spine, one of four known bindings, there is no priority established (the others are pale blue, aqua green, and red, all with black lettering). Very good .

Metuchen, Scarecrow Press, 1983, first edition.. Issued without dust jacket, includes a flyer about the book laid in loosely, this copy Signed by Hayashi, also Inscribed by Dr. Robert DeMott who contributes the introduction. Fine.

Long Island City, Quality Art Novelty Company, 1939, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. World's Fair souvenir filled with photos and text. Very good.

Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, Spring 1953, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Includes notes on the five titles selected for the Spring 1953 compilation book, which included East of Eden, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Very good.

London, William Heinemann, 1898, first British edition, first printing.. Slate gray binding with a life preserver in gilt on front cover, his third novel, issued earlier by Dodd, Mead in America under the title The Children of the Sea A Tale of the Forecastle, this copy with 32 pages of ads at the end, undated and with the publisher's spine imprint in uniform small letters (no priority as to the latter), Cagle A3.c.1, binding state c. Some cocking, very good.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. D-99 in this important series, selected by Van Doren, who also provides a preface, these are actual reports that the Russian people were reading by Konstantin Simonov and six other well-known Russian writers, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is a very scarce and important D-Day ASE. Very good.

Secaucus, Citadel Press, 1979, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Profusely illustrated with photos, includes text about and photos from the film version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, pages 59-70, not recorded by Morrow. Fine.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. C-61 in this important series, background on one of the great theaters of World War II, illustrated with three maps, 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 ASE issues. Very good.

NY, Harper & Brothers, 1904, first American edition, first printing.. Original green cloth with front decorated in orange and black with title and author in gilt, Smith 11, Keating 62, bookplate on front pastedown from the A. M. McGregor Home, Tootier McGregor established the A. M. McGregory Home in 1904 in East Cleveland, OH to honor her late husband, Ambrose, a close associate of John D. Rockefeller. Very good plus.

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1921, first edition, first printing.. Original dark green cloth, third state with the misprint on the Contents page corrected by a cancel, with Conrad's Author's Note, Smith 24, Keating 140. Nearly fine.

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1921, first edition, first printing.. Original dark green cloth, second state with the "S" and the "E" in Tales of the Sea misprint on the Contents page corrected by hand-stamping by the publisher, with Conrad's Author's Note, Cagle A51a(2) second state, Smith 24, Keating 139 . Very good.

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.