Search Results: Authors starting with B from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Publishing Company, n.d. [ca.1885]., 1885. First edition. 6" x 6 9/16" card folded in half to create to 4 panels. Two colorful cover panels - - one showing a woman with her parasol watering the crops with a hose as her husband is toiling at the pump. The second panel shows and man and his wife sitting on the front porch of their home while a sprinkler does the work. In background is a windmill. Two interior panels tell the story of poor Mr. And Mrs. Spoopendyke, a couple who is forced to do back-breaking work in order to get water to their crops. In January of 1867, Bradley S. Williams and his brother-in-law, Mr. Kirk Smith formed Williams, Smith & Co. in Kalamazoo, MI. The stated purpose to manufacture windmills and "reapers, mowers or threshers." In 1873, the two parted ways and Williams changed the name of the company to B.S. Williams & Co. By 1889, Kalamazoo was known as “The Windmill… Read More

Flagstaff: Northland Press, [1978]., 1978. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inscribed on the half title page by Babbitt: "To -- & -- / With our appreciation for your friendship & support / B Babbitt." Quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, burnt orange front and rear endpapers, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xv [blank], 258 [1] pp., foreword, introduction, frontispiece, illustrated, plates, bibliography, index. Foreword by Dr. Robert C. Euler. A selection of outstanding writings compiled by then Governor Bruce E. Babbitt, the sixteenth governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and as President Clinton's Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001. The articles are written about a number of aspects of Grand Canyon. Contributions by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, John Wesley Powell, Edwin Corle, Mary Austin, Irvin Cobb, J. B. Priestley, Wallace Stegner, Haniel Long, Robert C. Euler, Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Abbey, Zane Grey, and others. Interestingly we can find no… Read More

Flagstaff: Northland Press, [1978]., 1978. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inscribed on the half title page by Bruce Babbitt to author/historian Bernard "Bunny" Fontana. Two-tone quarter cloth and boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xv [blank], 258 [1] pp., foreword, introductions, illustrated from photographs, frontispiece, bibliography, index. Tales about the Grand Canyon by such writers as John Wesley Powell, Edwin Corle, J. B. Priestley, Haniel Long, Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Abbey, Zane Grey, and others. Fine copy in dust jacket with one tiny closed tear to top edge of front cover.

Oakland: Pacific Press Publishing Company, ca. 1896., 1896. First edition. 6" x 9" oblong printed wrappers tied at spine with cord. 32 pages, illustrations, map inside rear cover of the Santa Fe Route from Chicago to San Diego. Information on the landscape of Coronado making its climate ideal year-round. Charts of annual rainfall, temperatures, temperatures in relation to those at various European resorts, testimonials by customers and visitors, analysis of water minerals at Coronado, list of available activities, etc. Beautiful 2-page center photo of the Hotel del Coronado. A nicely done booklet promoting the area and hotel. Lightly soiled. else very good. Published for E.S. Babcock, a retired railroad executive from Evansville, Indiana, and manager of the Hotel Del Coronado.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941., 1941. First edition. First edition. Inscribed in ink by the author on the front free fly leaf prior to publication, to Black Mask editor Joseph T. Shaw: "To Captain Joe / Who is greatly responsible for whatever merit there is in this book / In appreciation and with warmest regards / Dwight / January 7, 1941." Attractive burnt orange colored cloth with a minor bump to top front corner, front and rear endpapers lightly tanned, else a near fine bright copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine, with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities. This is the author's first novel and it is set in California and the first of three he'd write featuring tough-as-nails true crime reporter Hannah Van Doren. "Kirby was just an ordinary fellow who wanted to be left alone. But they found a corpse in his apartment, and the finger was on him. So he set out to get the killer, and with him went Hannah, one of the most fascinating… Read More

N. P.: Privately printed, n. d. (circa 1938)., n.d. (circa 1938). First edition. First edition. Stiff printed wrappers, 39 pp. An interesting, account of the life of Vicente Silva, and the crimes and killings attributed to him and his gang in Las Vegas, New Mexico. A scarce little pamphlet which draws from the account written by Manuel Cabeza de Baca, with some new information. Six-Guns #103: "Rare." A fine copy.

Various Places: Journal of Officer C. J. Backhouse, 1942-1943., 1942, 1943. First edition. First edition. Small folio journal 13 1/4" x 8 3/4" bound in two-tone tan and green/gray cloth. 203 pp. Contains 203 pages of entries composed in ink plus four typed loose sheets with a lengthy account of 'Operation Husky' filling both the rectos and versos. Accompanying the entries in this large journal are numerous accomplished maps, diagrams of convoy formations and battle screens, and drawings of battleships, rescue launches, and motor boats tipped in between the pages. Housed in a custom cloth clam-shell box. This journal has suffered heavy soiling from oil, which we believe was caused during 'Operation Husky' when the HMS Eskimo was struck by a German bomb, penetrating its fuel oil tanks and causing a massive leak, killing many. This event is described by Backhouse in the typed sheets included with the journal. While the soiling has darkened the pages and left an oily aroma to… Read More

Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1995., 1995. First edition. First edition. Cloth, 302pp. Num. illus. Mormon Philip Klingensmith was a witness and participant to the famous Mountain Meadows Massacre. He was the first to confess complicity in the massacre, and gave testimony at the first trial of John Doyle Lee. A primary source giving unique insight into the infamous massacre of innocent men, women, and children by Indians and Mormons in 1857. As New in dust jacket. Original prospectus and order form laid-in.

Seattle: Argus Press, 1924., 1924. First edition. First edition. 12" x 9" in green patterned printed wrappers. 41 [1] entitled The Acquisition and Pioneering of Old Oregon; 17 [1] entitled Pioneer Seattle and Its Founders plus 16 pp. of illustrations, predominately full-page portraits. "In the spring of 1852, Dexter Horton of Princeton, Illinois, with his wife Hannah Eliza (Shoudy) Horton (1828-1871) and daughter Rebecca, joined what became known as the Bethel Company on their journey across the plains to Oregon. Other members of this party who would, like Horton, help establish the city of Seattle, were: Thomas Mercer, his wife Nancy Brigham Mercer (d. 1852) and their four daughters; Rev. Daniel Bagley (1818-1905), his wife Susannah Whipple Bagley and their young son Clarence (1843-1932); Aaron Mercer and his wife Ellen Leonard Mercer; William F. West and his wife Jane Whipple West; Edna Whipple; and about 20 bachelors. After unpacking and resting at The Dalles (the rapids and the… Read More

London: Collins, 1968., 1968. First edition. First edition. Lightly foxed at the top and fore-edges, light offsetting to the front and rear endpapers, else near fine in dust jacket lightly foxed on the verso of jacket. When a man inherits an old farm, he discovers a letter dated 1539, leading him to Mexico to solve an historical mystery.

London: Collins, 1980., 1980. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. A deadly game of hide and seek is played on Bahama island as one man tries to find a killer who has killed, sabotaged, arranged fatal accidents, etc. In short he is doing all those things that keep tourists away.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the author on the colophon of which this is copy 14. Also signed and dated on the half title page by the author. Includes the special keepsake that was printed for this special edition. Full green leather with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine marbled front and rear endpapers, xxiv, 493 [2] pp., frontispiece., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2012]., 2012. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxi [blank], 464 pp., frontis., preface, editorial procedures, prologue, illustrated, maps, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. This is Volume II in the series that began with Bagley's SO RUGGED AND MOUNTAINOUS: BLAZING THE TRAILS TO OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, 1812-1848. More than a quarter million travelers followed the road across the plains to gold rush California, and this book captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of the rush for riches. While often painted as a heroic effort to open new lands and advance civilization, the reality of the trek was something different. There was untold suffering and sacrifice and the trails and there trials forced many to turn back. The author does his usual detailed and thorough job to present the facts before us. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Two-tone quarter cloth and decorated boards, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxiv, 493 pp., frontis., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed subsequent efforts to cover up or expunge the record. He explains the… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2012]., 2012. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxi [blank], 464 pp., frontis., preface, editorial procedures, prologue, illustrated, maps, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. This is Volume II in the series that began with Bagley's SO RUGGED AND MOUNTAINOUS: BLAZING THE TRAILS TO OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, 1812-1848. More than a quarter million travelers followed the road across the plains to gold rush California, and this book captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of the rush for riches. While often painted as a heroic effort to open new lands and advance civilization, the reality of the trek was something different. There was untold suffering and sacrifice and the trails and there trials forced many to turn back. The author does his usual detailed and thorough job to present the facts before us. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Two-tone quarter cloth and decorated boards, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxiv, 493 pp., frontis., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed subsequent efforts to cover up or expunge the record. He explains the… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Two-tone quarter cloth and decorated boards, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxiv, 493 pp., frontis., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed subsequent efforts to cover up or expunge the record. He explains the… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2012]., 2012. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxi [blank], 464 pp., frontis., preface, editorial procedures, prologue, illustrated, maps, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. This is Volume II in the series that began with Bagley's SO RUGGED AND MOUNTAINOUS: BLAZING THE TRAILS TO OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, 1812-1848. More than a quarter million travelers followed the road across the plains to gold rush California, and this book captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of the rush for riches. While often painted as a heroic effort to open new lands and advance civilization, the reality of the trek was something different. There was untold suffering and sacrifice and the trails and there trials forced many to turn back. The author does his usual detailed and thorough job to present the facts before us. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Two-tone quarter cloth and decorated boards, burnt orange colored endpapers, xxiv, 493 pp., frontis., [portrait of Brigham Young], preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. At Mountain Meadows on Sept. 11, 1857, local settlers and Paiute warriors waylaid the Fancher party, a wagon train bound from Arkansas to California. Pinned down in a circle of wagons in a remote corner of southwestern Utah the 70 men and women and 70 children fought for their lives for five days. Then under a promise of safe conduct they surrendered to the Mormon militia and their Indian allies. As they were escorted away from their wagons all were murdered except seventeen children under the age of seven. The author relies on unpublished journals, letters, and documents from Mormon archives as well as from accounts by Mormons who opposed subsequent efforts to cover up or expunge the record. He explains the… Read More

Phoenix: Andy Chuka Printers, 1971., 1971. First edition. First edition. 4to. Pictorial, stiff tan wrappers, n. p. (35 pp.), preface, double column, illustrated with color plates and one black & white photograph. A catalog of the Nichols Collection of kachinas sponsored by The Heard Museum of Phoenix, Arizona. Contains 15 pages of descriptions of kachinas and 52 color illustrations of the kachinas as dancers with details of costumes, colors, and symbolism. Covers lightly soiled and used else a very good copy.