Search Results: Titles starting with M from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

Paducah, Kentucky: Privately printed for M. Michael & Bro., n. d. (ca 1885)., 1885. First edition. 5 7/16" x 8 5/8" oblong printed stapled wrappers, 52 pp., illustrated. A lovely trade catalogue for this Kentucky-based carriage manufacturer. Each page carries an illustration of a different carriage, a few of which show amusing little elves working on the carriages. Most give specifications on the carriages, including wheel and body size, leg room, etc. This M. Michael & Bro. catalogue is not listed on OCLC, which only lists an 1895 catalogue for the firm (three copies located); nor is it listed in Romaine. A small chip to the fore-edge of the front cover else a near fine copy. Scarce and quite nice.

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, [1969]., 1969. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, color maps on front and rear endpapers, xv, 238 pp., frontispiece [portrait], foreword, preface, illustrated, sources by episode, index. Mother of ten, this frontier woman persevered during extreme hardships and saw members of her family caught up in the violence of New Mexico's Lincoln County War. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped dust jacket with one small closed tear to top edge of rear cover.

New York: Lion Books, [1951]., 1951. First edition. First paperback and first revised edition. Lion 67. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Early biography and a scarce edition. From Bataan to Truman! The whole story, plus MacArthur's views on war, Genghis Khan, peace, and his address to Congress.

Yorktown, Texas: Hartmann Heritage Productions, Ltd., 1996., 1996. First edition. First edition. Signed and dated by the author. Fabricoid, frontis, [10], 218pp., acknow., epilogue, endnotes, appendices, biblio., num. illus. from photos, index. As new in gilt stamped fabricoid, issued without dust jacket. Introduction by James A. Browning. At birth he was given the name Theophilus Brown. Later he would be known as M.T. Mason as well as Mason T. Brown, but would be referred to frequently as "Mace." He was involved with his friend Bob Lee in the bitter and bloody conflict known as the Lee-Peacock Feud, he was sheriff of Colfax County, New Mexico, and was involved in the Colfax County War. Also while sheriff of Colfax County he became acquainted with gunmen such as Clay Allison and many of the photos are of pictures of Mace and Clay together. He was quite active in the "Four Corners" of northeast Texas as well as Cimarron, Raton and Springer, New Mexico. He is buried in a lonely… Read More

Austin: The Encino Press, 1969., 1969. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone quarter cloth and boards with title on the front cover affixed with a paper label and titles also stamped in black on the spine, light green front and rear endpapers, vi [2], 68 [2] pp., preamble, illustrated. Small inset map of New Orleans. Book design by William D. Wittliff. A great mix of tales and folklore about New Orleans and some of its eccentric and unusual people. Fine in the original transparent, protective dust jacket.

New York: Belmont Books, [1963]., 1963. First edition. First edition. PBO. Belmont 90-286. Fine, bright, unread copy in pictorial wrappers. A collection of six short stories filled with a sense of the macabre. Each story stands alone, and each has a theme of madness and disillusionment running through it ... A brilliant film director goes insane when his artistic vision is curtailed by the demands of reality; a cocky air force pilot commits a senseless murder and finds himself assigned to the mountains of Tibet as an indirect consequence; a recovering alcoholic discovers that giving up drinking is possibly the worst thing he's ever done. A wonderful collection.

Ottawa: Department of the Interior, ND, [circa late 1920's]., ND, [circa late 1920's]. First edition. First edition. Stiff pictorial wrappers, 31 pp. Frontis, numerous illustrations, folding map. Introduction. Published by the Canadian Department of the Interior, this work is No. 6 in the Historic Sites Series, it describes an effort in 1923 by the author, a surveyor with the Land Department of British Columbia, to locate the exact location of Mackenzie's Rock, the western terminus of Sir Alexander Mackenzie's first journey across the North American continent in 1792 & 1793. An excellent, informative report, "With a map showing the course followed by the explorer from Bella Coola, B.C., to the Rock, and illustrated with views along the route." A near fine copy. Inscribed on front wrapper "For Mr. Quaife" (assumed to be Editor & Historian, Milo M. Quaife).

Mackinac Island: Published for Mackinac State Historic Parks, 1973., 1973. First edition. First edition, 8th printing. Quarto. Pictorial boards, pictorial front and rear endpapers, 103 pp., foreword, introduction, illustrated mostly from photographs, facsimiles, maps, index. Founded in 1780 during the American Revolution, the military and fur trade dominated the Island's life during the 19th century. But for over 125 years tourists have been visiting the Island's historic and scenic attractions making it one of the most popular tourist resorts in the Midwest. No automobiles, but transportation is provided by horse-drawn vehicles. A small blemish to lower portion of the front cover, else a very good, tight copy.

N. P.: Privately printed, [1969]., 1969. First edition. 5 1/2" x 8 7/16" color, pictorial wrappers, n. p. (36 pp. including covers), illustrated in full color. Numerous color views of Main Street, private homes, the Grand Hotel, Fort Mackinac, Fort Holmes, Fort Michilimackinac, the Stuart House, the Beaumont Memorial, etc. Plus several views of the Mackinac Bridge. Fine copy.

London: Jarrolds Publishers Limited, [1945]., 1945. First edition. First edition. Very good copy in a colorful, bright dust jacket with tiny nicks to the spine ends and extremities. A detective meets up with a criminal and is ready to arrest him, when local townspeople want to take the law into their own hands. The detective finds himself fighting in the snow to save the man he was trying to arrest. The story is the basis for the classic 1952 film noir "On Dangerous Ground," directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, and Ward Bond. Scarce in dust jacket and this jacket is one of the nicest we have handled of this fragile wartime title. An attractive copy and very scarce in this condition.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Bright red cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine, black front and rear endpapers, xxi [blank], 315 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated from photographs, afterglow, epilogue. The story of Mildred Clark Cusey is the story of one woman's personal tragedies and triumphs as an orphan, a Harvey girl waitress on the Santa Fe railroad, a prostitute with innumerable paramours, and a highly successful bordello businesswoman. The candid language and sordid details present a true and complete representation of the business of prostitution as it was practiced in the West from the 1920s to the 1970s. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket. An exceptional copy.

London: Heinemann, [1963]., 1963. First edition. First U.K. edition. Light foxing to the fore-edges and to a few front and rear end pages, else very good in price-clipped dust jacket. Published in the U.S. using the title MURDER AT MADMAN'S BEND. One of Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte's toughest mysteries. William Lush is a drunk and wife-beater, and having savagely assaulted his wife he drives from his sheep station to the nearby town for a bender. On his return he runs out of petrol on the main road, and walks to his farmhouse to get more. But the farm has been locked against him by his stepdaughter Jill Madden, who puts a rifle bullet through the door when Lush tries to break in with an axe. Lush disappears, and is never seen alive again. Soon afterwards his wife dies of her injuries, and the police get involved. Are they looking for a murderer or a victim? Is Lush dead, or just holed up somewhere with a case of whiskey?

London: Heinemann, [1963]., 1963. First edition. First U.K. edition. Fine in dust jacket. Published in the U.S. using the title MURDER AT MADMAN'S BEND. One of Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte's toughest mysteries. William Lush is a drunk and wife-beater, and having savagely assaulted his wife he drives from his sheep station to the nearby town for a bender. On his return he runs out of petrol on the main road, and walks to his farmhouse to get more. But the farm has been locked against him by his stepdaughter Jill Madden, who puts a rifle bullet through the door when Lush tries to break in with an axe. Lush disappears, and is never seen alive again. Soon afterwards his wife dies of her injuries, and the police get involved. Are they looking for a murderer or a victim? Is Lush dead, or just holed up somewhere with a case of whiskey?

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941., 1941. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and lightly darkened on the spine. Hank Hyer is presented with a murder scene a la Ellery Queen when the sheet-shrouded corpse of a Broadway drama critic is discovered in his topsy-turvy bedroom. Hank learns the murderer has a strange desire for re-decorating his victim's rooms.

[Volcano: Dennis McMillan Publications], 1985., 1985. First edition. First edition. Limited to 350 copies, each of which is signed and numbered by the author of the introduction, Newton Baird. This is copy 118. Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps Vol. 3. Fine in dust jacket and the rarest book in the series.

[London]: Head of Zeus, [2014]., [2014]. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. It is a hot July in the mid-1970s, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature is rising with each passing hour. A mysterious death has exposed secret passions in government, bringing on a political crisis that will draw him back into a familiar world of danger and deceit. For Flemyng has a past. He was trained as a spy for a life behind enemy lines and now he's compelled to go back. In the course of one long weekend he must question all his loyalties: to his friends, his enemies, and to his own two brothers. Only then can he expose the truth in London and Washington.

London: Victor Gollancz, [1999]., [1999]. First edition. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. A Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler mystery set in wartime France. Together they investigate the violent murder of a girl from an aristocratic family. The dead girl was a scholar in medieval history and a singer who was desperate to join the madrigal group in town, for whom she already designed and made costumes.

New York: Otto Penzler, [1993]., 1993. First edition. First edition. Uncorrected proof. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Trade-size paperback. Former SIS agent-runner Herbie Kruger and attractive SIS agent Pucky Curtiss interrogate Maestro Louis Passau, an orchestra conductor who has been accused of spying for Hitler and aiding the KGB, extracting an extraordinary portrait of a brilliant but flawed man.

N.P.: Privately printed, 1957., 1957. First edition. 11" x 8 1/2" in a faux version of Time Magazine showing a picture of Johnson in the foreground and the Senate Building in the background, along with the words LONDON BAINES JOHNSON, Majority Leader of the United States Senate printed in bold black ink at the lower right corner of the front cover. 12 pp. including covers. Illustrations. Magazine includes letters from dignitaries, a photo essay, and some glowing comments by fellow politicians. Numerous black and white photographs throughou to include pictures of Senator Eugene Millikin, Speaker Rayburn, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Senators Anderson and Ellener, Former President Harry Truman, Johnson's high school class reunion photo, Governor Price Daniel, Senator Margaret Chase Smith Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Prime Minister Anthony Eden, etc. Magazine has been 3-hole punched, has minimal wear to the extremities and faint surface creases to the covers. A scarce item.

New York: Snyder & Black, Inc., 1933., 1933.. First edition. 4 colored die cut characters from Rice Krispies, one each for Mr. Snap, Mr. Crackle and Mr. Pop, and one of the trio, with original printed envelope, 6 ½" x 4 1/4.” Pat. I.C.P. Corp. Envelope lightly worn and soiled. Characters edges have not been folded in order that they be able to stand up. Near fine.