Search Results: Titles starting with E from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

[Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., 1917]., 1917. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth, titles and decorations in black on the front cover and spine, xxxix [blank], 415 [1] pp., introductory, frontispiece [view of Indianapolis & Hamilton, Ontario plants], numerical codes, index, illustrated throughout with every type of saws, equipment and mill supplies for the commercial operation. This very rare pre-World War I Atkins' saw catalogue promoting the company saws for sawmills, logging operations, loggers, and carpenters at the end of the Edwardian era. This lavishly illustrated catalog advertises the company's cutter heads, band saws, hack saw blades, files, clamps, saw sharpeners, thresher belts, pulleys, chain belts, gears, and much more. This very successful company was originally founded in 1855, and became well known for their circular sawblades, and bandsaw blades, circular saw equipment, metal sawblades, as well as their patented crosscut saws. Their main plants were… Read More

[Champaign]: Agricultural History, 1962., 1962. First edition. First edition. Pictorial wrappers, 10 [double column] pp., foot notes, illustrated. Article appears in Agricultural History magazine, Volume 36, No 2, April, 1962. The importance of Merino wool to support duPont's textile fibers industry, plus competition from abroad for other types of wool. Also an article by Stephen L. Stover, Early Sheep Husbandry in Ohio, about Ohio's contribution to the woolen markets. Article is 7 pp., illustrated, foot notes, maps. Also contains sections on "Associated Dairies of New York as Precursors of American Agricultural Cooperatives," and "The Cooperative League of the United States of America, 1916 - 1961: A Study of Social Theory and Social Action." Eight pages of book reviews, information on the proper sowing of wheat, etc. Fine copy.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1988]., [1988]. First edition. First edition. Fine, unread copy in fine dust jacket. A Kinsey Millhone mystery.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n. d. (ca 1934)., 1934. First edition. First edition thus. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners. A large volume that contains two Queen novels The Siamese Twin Mystery, and The Greek Coffin Mystery. Two complete and unabridged novels. A remarkedly fine, tight copy for such a large, heavy volume. Rare in this condition.

Helena: The Montana Historical Society, ND. (Circa 1963-1964), ND.. First edition. First Edition. Stiff Pictorial Wrappers. 32pp. Numerous illustrations; many of, and by Paxson. An informative biography of an interesting man and accomplished artist. Fine.

[Helena]: The Montana Historical Society, n.d. [ca 1962]., 1962. First edition. First edition. Montana Heritage Series, Number Fourteen. Pictorial wrappers, 32 pp., illustrated. Front cover is a wraparound reproduction of Paxson's Custer's Last Battle On The Little Big Horn In Montana, June 25, 1876. The life and works of Edgar S. Paxson including art work, books he illustrated, murals, his studio, reproductions of his work, and a list of his principal works. Fine copy.

N. P.: Privately published, n. d. (ca 1980)., 1980. First edition. First edition. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4" oblong , pictorial wrappers, 32 pp., introduction, double column, illustrated from photographs, plat map, suggested reading. History and photographs of Eagle and Fort Egbert, Alaska.

[Kansas City: Lowell, 1980]., 1980. First edition. First edition. Cloth, 71pp. Num. illus. in color by the author. "Charley Little Otter is a Crow Indian boy growing up in the Pryor Mountains of Montana at the turn of the century. He dreams of the 'time-before-now' when Crow warriors hunted buffalo and stole war ponies from enemy Indian camps. His dilemma is that the old way of life is changing under the white man's influence. At the Crows summer camp Charley's daydreams get the best of him and an impulsive ride on his uncle's spirited pinto pony takes him up the mountain to a dark and mystical adventure. With gentle understanding, this story tells us much about the unique Crow culture through the experiences of a boy who could be among us today." Very fine in dust jacket.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1968]., 1968. First edition. First edition. Volume I: Red cloth, vignette on front cover and titles on spine stamped in black, 414 pp. plus 17 pp of under-wing plates, introduction, illustrated, color & black & white plates by leading artists, double column. Fine, bright copy. Volume II: Red cloth, vignette on front cover and titles on spine stamped in black, 445 - 945 pp., illustrated, color & black & white plates by leading artists, maps, double column, supplementary bibliography, index. Fine, bright copy. The volumes provide complete information on all of the diurnal birds of prey, describing their features, habits, and distribution, and offering numerous color prints, in a book sponsored by the National Audubon Society. Fine copies housed in the original pictorial paper over boards slipcase

[London]: Headline, [2005]., 2005. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. AD 45, Centurions Marco and Cato, detained in Rome following an investigation into their involvement in a fellow officer's death, are made an offer they can't refuse. Narcissus, the devious Imperial Secretary, gives them the job of retrieving three vital scrolls stolen by pillaging pirates. Their officer-in-charge is the hated Vitellius and the three of them set sail with the Imperial fleet with their own personal destiny and that of the whole Empire resting in their hands. "An author called Simon Scarrow has included in his latest novel representations of four of my characters and a depiction of Fountain Court. In writing about the characters, he has shown Falco's father as a drunk who beats up his family and his mother as crushed and downtrodden. Upon representations by Random House and me, Headline generously froze stocks of the book, which… Read More

Winnipeg: Grain Trade Press, 1928., 1928. First edition. First edition. Stiff printed wrappers, 16 pp. Map. A scholarly review of the presence of La Verendrye, Alexander Henry, Sr., Alexander Henry, Jr., Peter Pond, Joseph Frobisher, Charles Chaboillez, Cuthbert Grant, J. Baptiste Cadotte, Jr., David Thompson, William Morrison, and others, pertaining to the "Early Occupation By Fur Traders Of The Upper Red River And Northern Minnesota." A near fine copy.

[New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1981]., 1981. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket, lightly rubbed at spine ends, and corners. When Spenser is hired by a woman to rescue her fifteen-year-old son from her ex-husband, he ends up protecting the boy and investigating both parents!

[N. P.: Privately printed, 2012]., 2012. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Color, pictorial stiff wrappers, xiv, 198 pp., introduction, acknowledgments, illustrated, chapter end notes. A revelation of early Danes who established success in Southern Arizona Territorial Days, in mining, the military, ranching, business, the railroad and community service. Also much history of the area and early and prominent settlers. As new, unread copy.

Kansas City: McIntire Publishing Company, [1902]., 1902. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth decorated in red and lettered in black, 229 pp., frontispiece [portrait], preface, illustrated, plates, portraits. Adams 150 "extremely rare. Author served as a peace officer in several towns of the West....He was city marshal of Las Vegas, New Mexico, when the mob tried to take Dave Rudabaugh from the train while Dave and Billy the Kid were prisoners of Pat Garrett." Dykes, Kid 37: "according to McIntire, he was a J.C. Loving cowboy, Texas Ranger, hide hunter, frontier peace officer, saloon keeper, gambler, and fugitive from justice." Herd 1405 says "Rare." "Although the author was better known as a gunman, he tells some of his experiences as a cowboy." Six Guns 1415 says "The author himself a fugitive, earlier served as a peace officer in several towns of the West. He tells of Billy the Kid, Jim Courtright, Dave Rudabaugh, Wyatt Earp, and Mysterious… Read More

Roswell: Privately printed, 1937., 1937. First edition. First edition. Printed wrappers, 35 pp., 7 illustrations. "The experiences of a New Mexico cowboy, written by a man who later became governor of the state. A very rare book, it is said to have been issued in an edition of only 35 copies."---Ramon Adams. "One of the rarest of all pamphlets on ranching....Hinkle was for a time Governor of New Mexico (1923-25), and was long a prominent rancher in southwestern New Mexico. Although brief, this little pamphlet conveys the flavor of the range with great flair."---Bill Reese. Light, general, dusty-soiling, very slight bump to upper fore-corner, and a tiny quarter-inch chip to top edge of rear wrapper. Very good-near fine.

Olathe, Kansas: Green's Historical Series, 1912., 1912. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, [4], 28 [2] pp., Illustrated with 10 inserted leaves of images, primarily from photographs, portraits, frontispiece. Green's Historical Series booklet Number One provides information of early days in Kansas along the Santa Fe Trail in the counties of Douglas, Franklin, Shawnee, Osage and Lyon. History of the area and some pioneers is provided along with personal narratives of events. Some taken from newspapers of the day. Covers chipped at the corners and fore-edge of front cover and fore-edge of rear cover, else interior is clean and tight and overall a very good copy.

Wichita: The Wichita Eagle Press, 1927., 1927.. First edition. First Edition. Stiff Printed Wrappers. 152pp. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Various accounts of early settlers in Kansas, prepared primarily for young readers. Informative and interesting. Very good.

Essex: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1991., 1991. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on front cover and spine, maps on front and rear endpapers, 208 pp., frontis., preface, foreword, illustrated, epilogue, index. Memoirs and stories of people, places, and events in Hart, Californiathe surrounding East Mojave Desert country in the early 1900s. Much on gold mining, a chapter on cattle companies, early homesteaders, etc. As new, unread copy without dust jacket, as issued.

Roswell: Privately printed, 1937., 1937. First edition. First edition. Printed wrappers, 35 pp., 7 illustrations. "The experiences of a New Mexico cowboy, written by a man who later became governor of the state. A presentation copy of the extremely rare first edition of James F. Hinkle's Pecos cowboy history, inscribed by him to Roswell, New Mexico, businessman H.D.O. Hammond on the inside of the front wrapper. Hammond is mentioned briefly in issues of the ROSWELL DAILY RECORD as a director of the Roswell Building and Loan Association. One of only thirty-five copies printed, and one of the key cattle rarities. James Hinkle arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico, in the late 1880s with a trail herd of 800 cattle that he helped drive from Toyah, Texas. He opens his text by relating that "While this is more or less personal, still it is in a way history of the old cattle days never to return." The photographs interspersed throughout picture the CA Ranch in 1886, cowboys out on the… Read More

Seward: Seward Independent, 1937., 1937. First edition. Pictorial wrappers, [4], 103 [8] pp., foreword, frontis., illustrated, portraits, index to reference paragraphs, index to illustrations, index to subject matter, index to individual names. Booklet contains a collection of articles and historical data about Seward County that was assembled and written by friends and relatives of pioneers. Articles on early settlers and their families, construction of the first railroad, Indian scares, the tornado 0f 1913, Seward County gold rush, claim jumpers, participants in World War I, school teachers of the county, etc. Covers lightly soiled, else a very good copy.