Search Results: Titles starting with F from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

[Helena]: Montana Historical Society Press, [1981]., 1981. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Oblong pictorial wrappers, 32 pp.,preface, illustrated from photographs, photographs in the exhibition. Presents photographs from the Haynes Collection of the Montana Historical Society. Fine, bright copy.

El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1960., 1960. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inked gift inscription on a fore-leaf by the publisher, Carl Hertzog, plus three penciled lines of notes by Hertzog relating to the use of an incorrect binding for this publication. According to Lowman this publication is limited to 125 hardcover copies. Decorated light green cloth, 16 unnumbered pages, illustrated. Designed by Carl Hertzog. Numerous illustrations, many in color by the famous longhorn painter, Frank Reaugh. A fine bright copy of an elusive title.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1946., 1946. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. Cloth, ix [3], 411 pp., introduction. Introduction by Donald Day. The Story of the Millers Brothers and the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma and its famous Wild West Show. The 101 Ranch was the largest ranch in Oklahoma, 110,000 acres, and was located near Ponca City, Oklahoma. Zack and his two brothers operated the 101 Ranch Wild West Show. The material in this book is as told to Fred Gipson and his wife, Tommine, in November 1944. Former owner's inked name on the front free fly leaf, else very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket with small chips and nicks to the spine ends, corners, and extremities.

New York: Avon Book Company, [1945]., [1945]. First edition. First Avon Books edition. Originally published in 1923. This title is Murder Mystery Monthly # 29. "Graydon had not been long in South American before he met two of his own countrymen, adventurers who knew of mysterious treasure. He went with them on a search that brought them adventures as lurid as the riches of which they dreamed." Light wear to the extremities, slight spine slant along with a vertical crease, pages evenly tanned else a very good copy of a digest-sized mystery novel.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1974]., 1974. First edition. First edition. Author's second book. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. A man imprisoned for seven years for alleged "anti-Soviet activities," is set free. He's free to be a man of authority and span the two worlds of East and West, largely because of his fluency in five languages and a flair for fixing matters too delicate for direct government involvement. For on this year's Nobel Prize short list are a Russian novelist, an American and a Chinese. He is charged with guarding, politically and emotionally, the young writer and former peasant Nikolai, now Russia's hottest property, allowed for the first time to visit the West. As he picks his way through various political minefields both in Moscow and on tour, he wheels and deals with literary agents and film producers, and knows that failure for Nikolai means death for him. Who will win the competition?

London: Hutchinson, [1974]., 1974. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survives - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun.

New York: Published by the Passenger Department of the Clyde Steamship Company, n. d. (ca 1900)., 1900. First edition. 8" x 4" color, pictorial wrappers, 62 pp., illustrated, 8 panel fold-out color map. The fold-out color map is affixed to the inside rear cover and is 8" x 25 1/2" and shows the Clyde Steamship Company's lines and connections. Shows steamship travel between Boston and New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina, Georgetown and Charleston, South Carolina, Brunswick, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida. Information and views are provided for all destinations. Various tour plans are offered. Light wear to the spine ends, else interior clean with fold-out map in fine, unused condition, overall a very good copy.

[St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., n.d. (1891)]., 1891. First edition. Third edition. 12mo. Original orange wrappers printed in black ink, 82 [2] pp., illustrated, map. advertising. Issued by the general passenger department of the Missouri Pacific Railway. A general description of the state and its place in history is provided. Plus soil, rainfall, churches, schools, higher educational opportunities, newspapers, population and wealth, corn, wheat, oats, stock farming, wild flowers, orchards and vineyards, salt, lead and zinc, stone, brick and lime, coal, gas, hunting and fishing, cities, irrigation, etc. Views are offered of farms and ranches, parade grounds, city parks, etc. of various cities. Herd 1204 says "Issued by the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, this book appeared in many editions, though all are now rare." Prior to this copy the earliest edition of a similar booklet was a 13th edition and that was 15 years ago. Fine, clean copy with a fine folding map. An… Read More

London: Macmillan, 1998., 1998. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. Mike Croft investigates the stalking and raping of a number of women within his jurisdiction. DNA samples however deny the theory of a serial rapist. The answer lies 200 miles away in a burning car on top of Avebury.

New York: Avon Books, [1999]., 1999. First edition. First edition. Author's first book. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. Set in 1861 during the Civil War, we find Captain Abel Jones, a confidential agent, trying to find the murderer of an officer of Gen. George McClellan's staff. Was he murdered by agents of the Confederacy, or someone else? Winner of the Herodatus Award as the Best First U. S. Historical Novel of 1999.

Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1874., 1874. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Decorated brown cloth, titles in gold gilt on front cover, dark brown endpapers, 30 [2] pp., frontis., illustrated. A story of southeastern Pennsylvania told in poetry format. A bit of minor rubbing to the cloth, else near fine copy.

London: Collins, [1972]., 1972. First edition. First edition. Author's fourth novel. Fine in dust jacket. Schoolmaster Joe Askern has interests that are simple and kept within safe bounds. When he meets Cess Carter, the friendly local criminal and father to one of Joe's more problem students, it seems they have a common interest, that being Averingerett, country seat of the old and aristocratic Trevigore family. Joe's interest is scholarly, Cess's economic. Proposing a merger, Cess and the dumpy sinister 'Lord' Jim along with the voluptuous Cynthia, use their own special talents to persuade Joe to agree.

London: Collins, [1972]., 1972. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Author's fourth novel. Fine in dust jacket. Schoolmaster Joe Askern has interests that are simple and kept within safe bounds. When he meets Cess Carter, the friendly local criminal and father to one of Joe's more problem students, it seems they have a common interest, that being Averingerett, country seat of the old and aristocratic Trevigore family. Joe's interest is scholarly, Cess's economic. Proposing a merger, Cess and the dumpy sinister 'Lord' Jim along with the voluptuous Cynthia, use their own special talents to persuade Joe to agree. Sharp copy.

TROY: Fairmount Nurseries, 1883., 1883. First edition. 9" x 6" letter accompanied by the original mailing envelope. The letter is addressed to Mr. W. H. Moon of Morrisville, PA, and is written in ink and they are advising Mr. Moon concerning payment of a current invoice. A little damage to one edge due to rough opening of the letter, and a few fold creases, else very good.

Tippecanoe City: Fairview Nurseries, 1884., 1884. First edition. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" letter accompanied by the original mailing envelope. The letter is addressed to Mr. W. H. Moon of Morrisville, PA, and is written in ink and they are advising Mr. Moon concerning an order of Evergreen trees and where and how to send them. A little age spotting and a few fold creases, else very good.

Chicago, Illinois & Port Byron, New York: Privately printed, n.d. (circa 1895)., n.d. (circa 1895). First edition. First edition. 4" round die-cut, stapled booklet. [20] pages. Advertisements. Chromolithograph illustrations throughout by Shober & Carqueville Lithography Co., Chicago. Advertisement in verse and prose for the firm's product, New England Mince Meat. Die-cut pages and stiff wrappers to imitate pie. This charming booklet served as a premium, which could be received in return for five box fronts from New England Condensed Mince Meat. For twenty box fronts, the mince meat fan could receive this booklet, along with a set of paper dolls, "The Fairies Children," and a large-scale reproduction of Kaber’s painting, "The Fairy’s Pie." Scarce. Light soiling and light glue residue on rear panel. Very good.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1934]., 1934. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Former owner's inked name on front fly leaf, else near fine in dust jacket with chip missing from head of spine affecting the letter "F" and partially affecting the letter "A," tiny chip at base of spine, and small chip at top edge of front panel at corner of front flap fold. The creator of Old Judge Priest provides well-written stories of retribution and ratiocination, and of murder and mood. QUEEN'S QUORUM #89.

Northfield: Northfield Historical Society, 2001., 2001. First edition. First edition. Boards. 207 pp. Numerous illustrations, many from old photographs. Facsimiles. Diagrams. Map. Bibliography. Index. Maps on endpapers. On the 125th anniversary of the event, the Northfield Historical Society has published "The most accurate and detailed history yet written of the 1876 James-Younger Raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota." An excellent work, written by the recently-deceased historian and author John J. Koblas. As new in dust jacket.

[New York]: Dutton, [2010]., 2010. First edition. First U. S. edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. The first novel in a trilogy that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of WWI, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. The year is 1911, and the coronation day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and animosity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war and revolution.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]., 2008. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles in red on the spine, black front and rear endpapers, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated from photographs, map, notes, bibliography, index. While serving as commissary officer at Fort Davis, Texas in 1881, Lt. Henry O. Flipper was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. He was acquitted of the embezzlement charge but convicted him of conduct unbecoming. The case became emblematic of racism in the frontier army and many assumed that he had been railroaded because he was black. This author challenges that assumption and after much research reaches a conclusion about whether race was the deciding factor in his dismissal or was Flipper the author of his own problems. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.