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

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.

.. An 8X10-inch color glossy photograph of Stegner sitting in a chair in his California home, he looks directly into the camera, the author won both the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and the National Book Award (The Spectator Bird), signed on the verso by the photographer. As new.

Lewiston, Confluence Press, 1990, first edition.. Issued without dust jacket, introduction by James R. Hepworth, frontispiece photo portrait of Stegner by Leo Holub. Fine.

Walnut Creek, James M. Dourgarian, Bookman, 1994, first edition, self-wrappers. Softcover.. Cover photo of Stegner by Leo Holub, this bookseller's Cat. 52, devoted exclusively to Stegner, it lists 234 items by and about Stegner, it also includes an introduction by Dourgarian as well as an essay by him about Stegner, it also includes essays about Stegner by his student and fellow author, Wendell Berry, as well as one by his fellow author and daughter-in-law Lynn Stegner, also includes an essay about collecting Stegner by Richard Kurtz, from a total print-run of 400 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies, this being Copy No. Y. Fine.

NY, "At Random", Fall 1993, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. A magazine published by Random House about books, writers, and writing, it includes A National Treasure: Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) with photo and text, page 11, as well as Word Place with photo and text, page 80. Fine.

Boise, Boise State College, 1972, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 4 in the Western Writers Series, one of 500 copies, Colberg Appendix No. 38, this copy Signed by Stegner. Very fine.

Lewiston, Confluence Press, 1990, first edition.. Issued without dust jacket, introduction by James R. Hepworth, frontispiece photo portrait of Stegner by Leo Holub, this is the definitive Stegner bibliography, one of 1,000 copies, this copy is signed by both Stegner and Colberg at the publication party for this book Nov. 18, 1990 which was held at Stegner's Los Altos, CA home, laid in is a cocktail napkin from that cocktail/publication party which is imprinted in gilt "Wallace Stegner/A Descriptive Bibliography". Minor top edge foxing, else fine, unread.

Montana the Magazine of Western History", Autumn 1993, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. This issue includes eight essays on Wallace Stegner, essays are by his son, Page, his biographer, Jackson Benson, his co-author, Richard Etulain, his fellow authors, Ivan Doig and William Kittredge, etc. Fine.

Walnut Creek, James M. Dourgarian, c.1990, first edition.. An 8X10-inch color glossy photograph of Stegner sitting in a chair in his California home, he looks directly into the camera, the author won both the Pulitzer Prize (Angle of Repose) and the National Book Award (The Spectator Bird), signed on the verso by the photographer. As new.

NY, Washington Square Press, 2002, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. No. LP-1, this is the first book in the renewal of the Armed Services Editions issued by the Council on Books in Wartime during World War II, the seven books in this new series were all developed by Carroll and his Legacy Project, a national nonprofit organization that works to preserve American war letters, the book covers the Civil War, World War I and II, the Korean War, and Vietnam to the present day, although the book appears to be well-aged along its edges, it was manufactured that way to make it look as if it too was one of the old-style Armed Services Editions, that aged look was abandoned after publication of this book which was done in the wider-than-tall format of the earlier ASEs, this copy Signed by Andy Carroll. Fine.

NY, Washington Square Press, 2002, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1-TLP/VFW, this book was a prelude the renewal of the Armed Services Editions issued by the Council on Books in Wartime during World War II, the seven books in this new series were all developed by Carroll and his Legacy Project, a national nonprofit organization that works to preserve American war letters, the book covers the Civil War, World War I and II, the Korean War, and Vietnam to the present day, it was issued solely for use for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, this book was followed by the seven books that renewed the Armed Services Editions, those seven books were distributed to military all over the world, including those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, this copy Signed by Andy Carroll, this version of War Letters is in the upright/vertical format. Fine.

n.p. (Washington, D. C.), n.p., 1996, first edition.. A poster that measures c.22X30 inches and which advertises a conference sponsored by poet laureate Robert Hass, The Orion Society, and The Library of Congress in Washington, D. C. April 15-20, 1996 subtitled Writers, Nature and Community, participants listed included Buelteman, whose 1988 b&w photo of Archalarius Ranch adorns the top half of the poster, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, Hass, William Kittredge, Peter Matthiessen, and a host of others, this copy is briefly inscribed by Buelteman. Minor wear, else fine.

London, Heinemann, 1947, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Purple cloth, Goldstone & Payne A23b, variant 1, this binding not recorded by Morrow. A rather poorly made book, but still very good.

NY, Bantam Books, 1950, first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 752, cover art by Stahl, Goldstone & Payne A23h, not recorded by Morrow. Very good plus.

NY, Viking, 1947, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Second issue binding with the blindstamp on front cover the same shade as the rest of the binding, although a lot of readers get lost in Steinbeck's symbolism at the end of the book, it has broad moments when his writing is as sharp as ever, jacket designed by Robert Hallock, Goldstone & Payne A23a, variant 2, this binding not recorded by Morrow. Fine in a jacket with some soiling to rear panel, else fine.

NY, Omnibook, August 1947, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Introduction, note about Steinbeck, and a condensed version of The Wayward Bus pages 1-40, Goldstone & Payne C68, not recorded by Morrow. Aged pages, else fine.

London, Heinemann, 1947, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. First issue binding of coarse red cloth, Goldstone & Payne A23b, Morrow 183. A rather poorly made book, but still very good plus.

Pleasantville, Reader's Digest, November 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Pages 18-23, condensed from Collier's, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, scarce. Fine.

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.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 718 in this important series, second issue of this number with the numbering sequence in the rear from No. 735 to 774 (the first issue is numbered from No. 695 to 734), based on Webster's New International Dictionary, a very scarce book, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Front cover rough, else very good.