Search Results: Authors starting with R from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

[Pueblo: Rocky Mountain Bank Note CO., Printing and Lithographing, n. d. (ca 1930s)]., 1930. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 21.5 x 27.7 cm [8 1/2" x 11"] oblong, color, stapled wrappers, 144 pp., illustrated, index. R. T. Frazier was the original designer, owner, and maker of the famous Pueblo Saddle. There are illustrations depicting their show rooms, as well as all types of saddles, saddle horn trees, saddle pockets, tapideros, stirrups, riding bridles, holsters, cartridge belts, chaparejos, cinchas, blankets,cuffs, belts, hand bags, brief cases, portfolios,, spur straps, etc. Also they advertise hats, shirts, work and dress shoes, cowboy boots, gloves, all types of spurs including silver mounted steel spurs, silver inlaid and plain spurs, inexpensive spurs, steel bits, rowels, buckles, truck and truck farm harnesses, collars, traveling bags, suitcases, etc. A catalog full of items for the cowboy and ranch. Small scrape to front cover that affects the word "catalog," verso… Read More

New York: Gold Medal Books, [1957]., 1957. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM k1426. Light reader's crease, all pages uniformly tanned, two small scrapes to front cover, lightly cocked, and light wear to the extremities, else very good in pictorial wrappers. John Bunting's is obsessed with avenging the death of his fiancee Ann Jackson who was killed by a stray bullet during a robbery. Bunting, a young electrical engineer, discovers that Saltenberg, a local racketeer, ordered the robbery, and Tarpin led the gang. John learns that Tarpin is operating a pinball machine racket in Manitoba, Florida. Bunning gets a job working for Tarpin, assembling pinball machines and begins to plot his payback.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1958]., 1958. First edition. First edition. PBO. Ace D-297. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. An Ace Double Novel Book. The Cut of the Whip involves a kidnapping that is not a kidnapping because the victim is helping his abductors. Kill One, Kill Two involves an American engineer who is set up, and blamed for the murder of the notorious husband of one of his two flames.

New York: Gold Medal Books, [1958]., 1958. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM s825. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Freelance spy Anthony Wheeler travels to Tunisia where three Arab chieftains who had been feuding for years are suddenly acting very friendly. Wheeler's mission ...find out why. The last person he expects to run into is his mentor, Fairchild. ItAs good to see his old friend ... so why did it all feel so wrong? This story is fully devoted to international intrigue.

Greenwich: Fawcett Gold Medal Book, [1967]., 1967. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM d1830. Fine in pictorial wrappers. A shadowy trail of espionage and counter-espionage in a race against time as the machine that would destroy the world ticks on.

New York: Gold Medal Books, [1955]., 1955. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM 506. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Cover art by Lu Kimmel. Cover promotional blurb by Erskine Caldwell. When the thirty-six pounds of gold he steals from a lab turns out to be radioactive, down-and-out thief Tony Catell has to stay one step ahead of the FBI while trying desperately to find someone willing to take it off his hands.

Greenwich: Gold Medal Books, [1965]., 1965. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM k1540. Fine in pictorial wrappers. An espionage novel where a girl in a painting was much admired by Goering and so, the painting was ordered seized for him when the Nazis plundered Rotterdam. DeWitt's assignment is to find the missing artwork, regardless of the murder and mayhem about him.

Greenwich: Gold Medal Books, [1960]., 1960. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM 967. Lightly rubbed along bottom edge of front panel, else near fine, unread copy in pictorial wrappers. Jimmy Gallivan has only three weeks left to serve on a seven-year term for attempted murder, when he's caught up in a massive jailbreak. He doesn't want to leave, but another con forces him to come along. Gallivan gradually realizes the whole jailbreak was meant to get him out, but he doesn't know why. Why him? Why couldn't they wait three weeks until he'd be released anyway? Someone very important thinks Gallivan knows something very important ...... something he simply can't remember.

New York: Gold Medal Books, [1959]., 1959. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM 864. Page edges uniformly tanned, else fine in pictorial wrappers. A former syndicate operative is being set up to be killed, but what secret does he have that keeps him alive?

Tucson: The Arizona Historical Society, 2005., 2005. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. One of approximately 20 copies signed by the author during a visit to Arizona. The author lives in England. Bright orange cloth, gold stamping on spine, viii [2], 302 [1] pp., introduction, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, afterword, notes, bibliography, index. Mickey Free was the name given to Felix Telles, who was carried off at age thirteen by an Apache raiding party in 1861. Mickey Free was transformed into an Apache warrior and eventually served as Indian Scout for the U.S. Army. He moved with ease among three cultures and participated in the important events of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. This definitive biography is a major contribution to the Apache Indian War era in Arizona and the Southwest. As New in dust jacket.

London: The English Westerner's Society, 1972., 1972.. First edition. First Edition. Stiff Printed Wrappers. 28pp. Illustrations. Map. Notes and References. Appears in The Brand Book of The English Westerner's Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, Publication No. 175, January 1972. An interesting examination of this noteworthy character in early Arizona history. Fine copy.

[Tucson: The Arizona Historical Society, 2005]., 2005. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed on the title page by the author and Joyce L. Jauch. Laid-in is a Christmas card with the original mailing envelope from the author in his home in England to an Arizona bookseller. Bright orange cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine, viii [2], 302 [1] pp., introduction, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, afterword, notes, bibliography, index. Mickey Free was the name given to Felix Telles, who was carried off at age thirteen by an Apache raiding party in 1861. Mickey Free was transformed into an Apache warrior and eventually served as Indian Scout for the U.S. Army. He moved with ease among three cultures and participated in the important events of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. This definitive biography is a major contribution to the Apache Indian War era in Arizona and the Southwest. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947., 1947. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Cloth, titles stamped in blue on the spine, xi [3],336 pp., preface, index. 3793 records of the source material about the American Southwest. Former owner's inked notation on the front free fly leaf and a few penciled notations to the Preface, else a very good tight copy lacking the dust jacket.

[New York: Macfadden Publications, Inc., 1949]., 1949. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4" printed wrappers, [4], 24 [7] pp., foreword. A true crime story from the files of the Pinkerton Detective Agency that took place in New York City. A phantom burglar was robbing the Center buildings on Fifth Avenue of securities, diamonds, jewelry, etc. and the office doors were all locked. Despite all types of security precautions, including the presence of Pinkerton and police standing guard, the robberies continued, all offices remained locked, and the robber escaped each undetected. The case was puzzling and made even more-so because the robber "may be one of the 1,700 employees, one of the 35,000 office workers in the various buildings, or one of the 128,000 daily visitors." Who was the robber, how was he making entry into the businesses, and how was he escaping? Moderate wear to the spine and extremities, internally clean, overall a good copy.

Austin: University of Texas Press, [1984]., 1984. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xxv [3], 266 pp., preface, introduction, prologue, illustrated from photographs, epilogue, footnotes, bibliography, index. Little-known and interesting history of America’s earliest military aviation efforts in Texas’s Big Bend region and from a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Texas borderlands. "Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground ... a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Texas borderlands. Here, at Elmo Johnson's Big Bend ranch, hundreds of young Army Air Corps pilots demonstrated the U.S. military's reconnaissance and emergency response capabilities and, in so doing, dramatized the changing role of the airplane as an… Read More

London: Constable, [2009]., 2009. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. It promised to be the perfect vacation with every modern convenience: exotic terraced gardens complete with an English folly, thirty-eight varieties of ice cream, and plenty of cocktails. Antonia Darcy and Hugh Payne never seriously imagined they would encounter anything worse than extravagance in this idyllic setting. But an uninvited guest at the garden party given in their honor makes Antonia his confidante. Not only does he claim to have witnessed the strangling of beautiful, wayward Marigold Leighton, he also insists it was their host Roman Songhera, the uncrowned king of Goa, who had committed the murder.

Chicago: John C. Pollock, Department of Tours, 1939., 1939. First edition. 9 7/8" x 7" in bright, colorful pictorial wrappers depicting a man and woman riding on a train and looking at the beautiful mountain view through a large window. 65 pp., index, illustrations (many in color), maps, schedules, itineraries. Booklet filled with information about, pictures of, and Itineraries for 15 different tours, lasting from 8 - 20 days and costing from $82.02 to $363.47. Most of the tours include Yellowstone National Park and go on to offer extending tours to Salt Lake City, The Royal Gorge, Colorado Springs, Denver, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Cedar Breaks, Estes Park. Offers a 14-day tour to California, Old Mexico, and Yosemite, and the Golden Gate International Exposition as well as a 13-day tour that visits the Pacific Northwest, Mt. Rainier, the Canadian Rockies, Banff, and Lake Louise. Descriptions of and information about Yellowstone National Park, Salt Lake City, Zion, Bryce & Grand… Read More

St. Louis: A. Gast & Co. Lith., [1877]., 1877. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 21.6 cm x 13.3 cm. Original printed yellow wrappers, 31 [1] pp., illustrated from two, full-page pictorial plates, three maps on verso of front cover and recto and verso of rear cover. Front map is of the great South Platte region. Map on inside rear cover is a map of Southern Iowa showing lands of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company that are available for sale Map on outside of rear cover is a map showing the leading through routes to the West and the land grants in Iowa & Nebraska of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. R. and Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska. A scarce and interesting promotional for the sale of 1,000,000 acres of land owned along the routes of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. The Burlington and Missouri put out some of the most interesting and compelling railroad land promotionals in the genre, nicely illustrated with maps and plates, and this… Read More

N.P.: Privately printed, n.d. [ca 1940]., 1940. First edition. First edition. 8 1/4" x 45" sheet folded to 24 panels. Illustrations. Map. 12 full-color captioned images are printed on one side of the sheet. The opposite side offers 2 cover panels, a 6-panel color route map, and 4 panels offering information on the Royal Gorge Route and the Moffat Tunnel Route, describing what one can expect to see an experience during the trip, and offering information on notable Rio Grande Wonder Spots. Minimal soiling and with light rubbing to some folds. Very good plus.

N.P.: Privately printed, n.d. [ca 1925]., [ca 1925]. First edition. 9" x 6" color pictorial wrappers. 47 pages, tinted illustrations, maps, tour plans. Numerous tour itineraries and schedules with numerous beautifully colored photographs of various areas, buildings and parks. Tours discussed include Glacier and Yellowstone; Colorado and Yellowstone; Inter-Mountain Route From Colorado to Yellowstone and Glacier; Colorado and Glacier. General information for the tourist including cost of tours, discussion of climate, apparel, booklets of possible interest, a list of ticket routing for various tours, calendar schedules for various tours, etc. Separate map depicting each tour. Very good plus.