Search Results: Authors starting with A from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

n.p.: n.d. [ca 1905]., ca 1905. First edition. Seventeen mounted photographs, including 8 albumen photographs, sized 3" x 5" mounted on 5" x 7" cream-colored studio boards, sepia toned, one with pencil  markings on verso; nine silver gelatin photos sized 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" mounted on dark gray studio boards measuring 5 ½" x 6 ½,” one with pencil annotations on verso. Preserved in faux alligator skin  paper covered box, with annotations on verso of lid. These exceptional images document the  logging activities of the A.C. Tuxbury Co. amidst the South Carolina swampland forests near Charleston, South Carolina. These images were shot at the time the Tuxbury Co. logging operations were centered along the Ashley and Cooper Rivers where cut logs were simply floated to the mill,… Read More

New York: Published For The Author By Lange, Little & CO., Printers, 1875., 1875. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth, gold stamping on spine, 314 pp., dedication, preface, appendix, conclusion. Basic Texas Books 17 says, " This is the only complete history of the largest single unit of Texas troops in the Civil War, the only division in the Confederate army composed of troops from a single state. Raines called it "one of the best war histories written, as to the Texas troops. "Written by a corporal on the staff of General Richard Scurry, it was derived from his own diaries, "jotted down on the long and weary march, in the quiet camp, before and after the fierce conflict of deadly strife." This division was also known as the "Greyhound Division." The unit served primarily in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and was the backbone of the Confederate forces of the Trans-Mississippi West. Its major contributions were at battles held at Mansfield, Pleasant… Read More

[Kalamazoo]: A-1 Printing, n. d. (ca 1976)., 1976. First edition. 6 3/4" x 4 1/4" oblong, pictorial wrappers, n. p. (16 pp.), illustrated. Kalamazoo, the "Celery City," takes its name from the Indian and Ke-Kenamazoo. Views provided of workers in a celery field, Main Street, Burdick Street, Academy Street, Bronson Park, the Court House and South Rose Street, the public library, the ladies' library, asylum buildings, and the post office. Fine copy.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1943]., [1943]. First edition. First edition. Some light staining of the front and rear channel area, else fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with one small (1/4) closed tear to bottom edge of front panel. Thatcher Colt and Tony Abbot have been away too long. "But they return with a story so sinister and undetectable that it will make you shudder for hours. "...ranks with the top-flight mysteries that keep the reader guessing until the very end."

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1939]., 1939. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone decorated cloth, xv [1], 218 pp., top edges green, introduction, map, illustrated with drawings by Ross Santee and from photos. E.C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." A leading book on the range cattle industry of which Six Score 1 says, "This is perhaps the most straight forward account of cowboy life. Teddy Blue Abbott was raised in Nebraska; after leaving home his first job as a cowboy was with the notorious Olive outfit. He had a number of other jobs before coming up the trail to… Read More

Anaheim: Published and Distributed by Abbott & Abbott, 1970., 1970. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial stiff wrappers, 74 pp., illustrated. An informative booklet that covers all facets of collecting bottles. Information on where they may be found, how to identify bottles, how to properly clean them, clubs and memberships, etc. Very good copy.

Lincoln: Published by the Nebraska State Historical Society, 1929., 1929. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inked presentation inscription from the grand daughter of the author. Red cloth, gold gilt stamped decoration on the front cover and titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine, [3], 176 [1] pp., introduction, frontispiece, illustrated, plates, portraits, map, index. Abbott served with the 9th Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War and 76 pp. of this book deal with the Civil War. He crossed the plains in 1867, and started a law practice in Grand Island, Nebraska. He met Susan B. Anthony and became involved with the struggle for women's rights in Nebraska, He provides interesting commentary on plagues of grasshoppers and other interesting experiences. A fine copy of an interesting book.

Pierre: State of South Dakota, 1932., 1932. First edition. First edition. Cloth, 458 pp. Editor's preface. Historical introduction. Notes and references. Appendices. Index. 3 Plates. "Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences Among the Mandans, Gros Ventres, and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837." The lengthy introduction provides an important historical perspective on Chardon's journal. Near fine, bright copy.

Pierre: State of South Dakota, 1932., 1932. First edition. First edition. Cloth, 458 pp. Editor's preface. Historical introduction. Notes and references. Appendices. Index. 3 Plates. "Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences Among the Mandans, Gros Ventres, and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837." The lengthy introduction provides an important historical perspective on Chardon's journal. As New, bright, uncut copy.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900., 1900. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Senate, 56th Congress, 1st Session, Document No. 306. Quarter red leather and marbled boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, marbled front and rear endpapers, 169 [1] pp.,plus 168 pages of photographic plates, one large folding map tipped in at the rear of the volume, all edges are marbled. This informative and lavishly illustrated account of the expedition led by Abercrombie, in order to establish an all-American route from Valdez, Alaska on Prince William Sound, and opening up a military road to Copper Centre by the most direct route to Eagle City, and the gold fields of northern Alaska. It was the first direct land route into the Alaska interior, and included 13 detailed subreports which revealed the brutal hardships suffered by “Stampeders” attempting to traverse the terrain, and Abercrombie actually concluded many of the miners were mentally deranged, and later… Read More

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966., 1966. First edition. First Edition. Cloth. vii-xii, 244pp. Illustrated throughout. 3 Maps. A collection of essays portraying the Big Thicket of East Texas, and it's people. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

[Washington]: Tippin & Streeper, 1848., 1848. First edition. First Edition. Disbound. House of Representatives. 30th Congress, 1st Session. Miscellaneous No. 98. 26pp. Governor Abernethy's report begins with a three page message from Speaker Robert Newell regarding "the proud and powerful tribes of Indians residing east of the Cascade Mountains," once peaceful, now "have shouted the war whoop, and crimsoned their tomahawks in the blood of our citizens...[including] Dr. Marcus Whitman and his amiable wife..." Other topics addressed in the Governor's message are: extension of the U.S. government into the Territory; the use of wheat as the only legal tender besides gold and silver; manufacture and sale of wine and distilled spirits; robberies pulled by the Cayuse Indians; increased immigration to Oregon Territory; etc. Most attention is paid to "the horrible massacre committed by the Cayuse Indians on the residents at Waiilatpu," including detailed reports by… Read More

[Washington: Government Printing Office, 1848]., 1848. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Senate Executive Document No. 23, 30th Congress, 1st Session. Red cloth, 132 pp., [blank], plus 24 full-page, lithograph plates and a large folding map. Raines page 1 says, "The Canadian valley of Texas was part of the region traversed and described." The report provides much of life among the Indians, plus examination of the country from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe with descriptions of flora and fauna, Mexican customs, Mexican ruins, and several pages of Indian nouns and verbs. Rittenhouse 2 says ".... describes his trip from Fort Leavenworth over the SFT via Bent's Fort, his survey of the northern part of New Mexico, and his return trip over the Trail." Wear to spine ends corners, and extremities, margins of some interior pages are lightly chipped not affecting the print, a very old water stain to the top page edges not affecting the print, some light foxing throughout, interior pages… Read More

N.P.: Privately printed for the author, n. d. (ca 1972)., 1972. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Laid-in is a letter written in red ink and dated in 1987 to a Tucson book seller. Green cloth, titles on front cover and spine stamped in silver gilt, brown endpapers, 148 pp., acknowledgments, illustrated, portraits. Biographical sketches of members of the Arizona Cowbelles. Fine copy without dust jacket, as issued.

[New York: Oxweld Acetylene Company, 1925]., 1925. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Dark green wrappers,titles stamped in gold gilt and black ink on the front cover, 51 [1] pp., illustrated, index. An Oxwelding and cutting equipment catalogue. All sorts of oxy-acetylene equipment is offered for sale including welding and cutting stations, blowpipes, cutting nozzles, regulators, gauges, manifolds, hose connections, wrenches, adaptors, acetylene generators, etc. Near fine copy.

Honolulu: Talei Publishers, Inc., 2006., 2006. First edition. First Edition. Black Cloth. xi, 352pp. Illustrated. Foreword by Leon Metz. Index. Famous for his involvement with events in Tombstone that culminated in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, This work follows Ike Clanton and his life in the few years that he lived after the gunfight, before he was shot and killed during his attempted arrest in 1887 in eastern Arizona. An interesting work. As New in dust jacket.

Phoenix: Privately printed by the author, 2005., 2005. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Signed by the author. Pictorial spiral bound wrappers, n.p. [70 pp.], introduction, illustrated, maps, selected bibliography. This booklet provides detailed data on Tombstone's business establishments in the sixteen block downtown area 1879-1883. The author provides a map of each block with the business location cited and tables with the business name, owner/proprietor, type, location, and years. As new, unread copy.

Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1884., 1884. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Fergus Historical Series Number Twenty-Three. Printed yellow wrappers, 174 [1] pp., chapter end notes, appendix, index. The author was President of the Illinois Central Railroad at the time. Notes by Hon. John Wentworth. An appendix is provided with the Breese - Douglas Correspondence on the inception and origin of the Illinois-Central Railroad, and the origin of Names of the Stations on the Illinois-Central Railroad. Surprisingly, this book has never been read with the majority of pages un-cut. It is a fine, unread copy in bright, original wrappers.

Phoenix: Privately printed by the author, 2005., 2005. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Signed by the author. Pictorial spiral bound wrappers, n.p. [70 pp.], introduction, illustrated, maps, selected bibliography. This booklet provides detailed data on Tombstone's business establishments in the sixteen block downtown area 1879-1883. The author provides a map of each block with the business location cited and tables with the business name, owner/proprietor, type, location, and years. As new, unread copy.

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, A.G. Orbis Pictus, 1923., 1923. First edition. Volume 17. 9 3/4" x 7 1/4" in heavy black paper with paper label showing the title printed in black and bordered in burgundy, affixed to front cover. 44pp. of text followed by 48 pp of full-page plates of photographs of Northwest American Indian objects in the Berlin Museum. "Dr. Leonhard Adam was born in Berlin in 1891. While quite a young man he became interested in material culture, and later studied law, ethnology and Sinology at the University and Oriental Seminar of Berlin, at the same time continuing private studies at the Ethnographical Museum on Berlin, where 'Americanistics' were his main pursuit. So intense was his will be learn that he more than once had mentioned that he knew every creek-bend, tree, and rock of the Tlingit country, though he'd never been there." In this booklet Adam, "has described the art style of the North Pacific Coast tribes through studying the specimens at… Read More