Search Results: Titles starting with R from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

London: The Cresset Press, 1941., 1941. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Not an official history of the RAF, but a record of impressions. It deals with the peace-time training in Southern England; with the assembly of the many squadrons at their war stations in August, 1939; with the life of a Coastal Command squadron patrolling out in the Atlantic during the first winter of the war; with the life of a strange and unique Anglo-French Air Force unit in France during the spring, and the happenings during the retreat and the evacuation; with the life of so-called " home-stations," now that England has become herself part of the front line, where young English boys, Dominion pilots, Czech and Polish airmen are all training to become part of a greater and more widely-embracing Royal Air Force.

[McLean: D R M Publishing Company, 2001]., 2001. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Signed by the author. Decorated printed wrappers, 47 pp., frontis. [1904 Donley County Rowe ownership map], double column, foreword, introduction, illustrated, afterword, notes. Foreign investors flocked to buy Texas land in the 1880s, most either went broke or at best broke-even, and only a few prospered. British cattleman Alfred Rowe managed to thrive in the Texas Panhandle, founding his RO Ranch in Donley County and the city of McLean in Gray County. Rowe met his death on the ill-fated Titanic ocean liner. As new.

[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

Boerne: The Highland Press, [1951]., 1951. First edition. First edition. 6" x 9" oblong in plain yellow wrappers with pictorial dust jacket. 32 pages. Artwork by Emilie Toepperwein. Early children's story set in Fredericksburg, Texas, at Easter time. "The story goes that in the very early days a family of pioneer children were frightened on Easter Eve by seeing Indian campfires on the hills. Their mother quieted them. Oh, no! she said, not Indian fires, but rabbit fires burned there outside the town. The Easter Rabbit was coloring his eggs, she said, with kettles of flower-dye boiling above the flames they saw." From that day forward, there have been fires lighting the town of Fredericksburg on Easter Eve. A lovely little book, printed on light orange, light pink and yellow pastel paper with charming illustrations. Former owner's name neatly written on front free end paper and with very light bleeding to edges of both covers in lightly soiled dust jacket with light water… Read More

New York: Bantam, [1988]., 1988. First edition. First edition. Author's second book. Signed by the author. PBO. Edgar award nominee for best paerback mystery. Very good in pictorial wrappers. Working for a San Francisco law firm, Willa Jansson thought she'd seen everything. Then her boss dies from hemlock poisoning. Things go from awful to outrageous when Willa's mother, a former client of the deceased, is suspiciously named in his will to inherit his fantastic home in the hills. Poking into the recent past and the apolitical present, Willa fishes out an old boyfriend she'd rather forget, a cop she hates on principle, and a famous law firm that can barely make ends meet. It's a pretty good catch for a first-year associte ... considering someone is trying to kill her.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]., 1988. First edition. First edition. Review copy. Fine in dust jacket. Although they were born as identical twins, Aroma and Amora Sweet hardly resemble each other anymore. When Amora's head is sent to her doorstep, Aroma is thrust into the limelight as a possible suspect. She escapes her "police protection" and goes on a cross country search for the real killer.

[New York]: Dell, [1965]., 1965. First edition. First paperback edition. Signed by the author. Fine in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Velovsky. Author's second book, a powerful novel about a WWII Army transport corrupted by a strange and evil man. Makes The Caine Mutiny sound like a pleasure cruise, and evoked comparisons with Conrad and Melville from the critics. Signed copies of the author's early books are scarce.

N. P.: Privately printed, [1930]., 1930. First edition. 9" x 19 1/2" one sheet, folded into ten panels, printed on both sides in red and black, illustrated, map. Brochure advertises "miracle waters" that will "prevent more bodily ills than a modern drug store" and can be enjoyed along with tennis courts, a fine dance floor, and sumptuous meals. Although the actual radium content of these springs was (fortunately) quite low, promoters were not deterred from capitalizing on the early 20th Century fascination with radium's alleged power to cure rheumatism, high blood pressure, gastric ailments, alcoholism, and more. The brochure provides a chemical analysis of the waters, asserting that "the radium water you drink acts like a million little suns giving off the Alpha and Gamma rays, which act as tonic, stimulating the tissues, the glands, the nerves, and the internal organs." If that's not enough to convince you, perhaps you'll be swayed by the wisdom… Read More

Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., [1964]., 1964. First edition. First edition. Presentation inscription by the author on front fly leaf. Cloth, 175 [1] pp., foreword, profusely illustrated with old photos, maps, acknowledgments, bibliography. An interesting section of glass plate photographs by Wm. H. Jackson, the famed Western photographer. Railroads of the Black Hills of South Dakota and some stories about them. Former owner's gift presentation on front fly leaf, else fine in dust jacket, lightly rubbed at the spine ends and corners.

[Borger: Hess Publishing Company, 1976]., 1976. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. Blue cloth, titles in black on front cover and spine, xii [4], 456 pp., foreword, bibliography, index. The railroads that served the locality in Texas known as the Panhandle, which was best known as cattle and oil country, are discussed in depth. The railroads discussed are the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad, Canyon to Plainview, the Santa Fe Railroad, the Rock Island Railroad, and the Katy and other railroads. This is an as new, unread copy in dust jacket. An exceptional copy.

Shelburne: The New England Press, [1993]., 1993. First edition. First edition. 4to. Volume I: Red cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine, decorated front and rear endpapers, xviii, 349 pp., double column, foreword, preface and acknowledgments, illustrated mostly from photographs, maps, tables, chapter-end sources, index. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. Volume II: Green cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine, decorated front and rear endpapers, viii, 360 pp., double column, preface and acknowledgments, illustrated from photographs, maps, chapter-end sources, index. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. The two volumes provides the most comprehensive history of Vermont railroads ever written. Volume I covers the Addison Railroad to the Hardwick & Woodbury Railroad in alphabetical order -- twenty-seven railroads in all. Volume II covers the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington Railroad to the Woodstock Railway in alphabetical order -- thirty railroads in all. Both volumes are as new in… Read More

Chicago: Santa Fe System Lines, 1939., 1939. First edition. 11" x 8-1/4" in colorful pictorial wrappers. 32pp. including wrappers. The rear wrapper shows the Evolution of the Santa Fe Trail. Double column text. Numerous illustrations to include pictures of engines dating but not all inclusive from 1877 through 1938, manual track laying, locomotives being reassembled, different railroad cars such as a tank car, the caboose, box car et.al. Information on railroad history, early steam locomotives, American progress, the old Santa Fe Trail when pack mules, oxen and caravans of freight wagons were used. Describes the new Santa Fe Trail which was of the iron horse. The American railroads are one of our country's largest consumers, buying enormous quantities of almost everything we produce. Information pertaining to the safety, speed and comfort on the railroads. Suggests how important it is to travel on the railroad to get a wonderful view of the vastness of these United States, its scenic… Read More

Kokomo, IN: Popular Publications, Inc., 1953., 1953. First edition. Railroad Magazine, September, 1953, Vol. 61, No. 4. 8vo. Color pictorial wrappers, 132 pp. including wrappers. Many illustrations. Articles include The Amazing Great Western describing the CGW or the Chicago Great Western which served Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and a very small portion of Nebraska and Kansas; Locomotives of the Canadian Pacific describes the specifics of their steam engines; New York Central - 100 Years of Steam by Robert C. Schmid talks about how the New York Central Railroad was formed in 1853 by taking possession of ten short railroads in New York State between Albany and Troy on the east and Buffalo and Niagara Falls on the west.; Angus, the Scot by Hugh G. Jarman is an article about the Canadian Pacific Railway car wheels; The Rise and Decline of the Midwest Interurban by Prof. John F. Due. As a transitional step from the main-line railroad to the car, bus and truck for short distance travel, it… Read More

[Buffalo Grove: The Railroadiana Express, 2009]., 2009. First edition. 8 1/2" x 11" pictorial wrappers, 36 pp (including covers), illustrated, advertisements. This is Volume XXXVIII, Number 2, Summer, 2009. Articles and illustrations for the collector of railroad memorabilia. Three-hole punched at the spine margin for insertion into a larger three-ring binder, else fine copy.

Berkeley: Howell-North Books, [1975]., 1975. First edition. First edition. 4to. Gray cloth, titles stamped in black on the front cover and spine, pictorial front and rear endpapers, 477 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated mostly from black & white photographs, frontispiece, maps, index. A total of 542 illustrations and 55 special maps. This volume depicts the history of all the railroads in southern Arizona along the Mexican border. From the library of Kenneth L. Hart, Big Spring, Texas who has placed his inked name, address and comments neatly on the front pastedown sheet, at the bottom of the copyright page and a few passages neatly underlined in red, else a very good, clean copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket with a small chip to the head of spine, with some small nicks and closed tears to the extremities.

Casa Grande: Casa Grande Valley Historical Society, 1998., 1998. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers, 39 pp., illustrated from photographs, errata sheet laid-in. History of the Casa Grande Valley railroads in Arizona. Fine copy.

[Borger: Hess Publishing Company, 1976]., 1976. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, titles in black on front cover and spine, xii [4], 456 pp., foreword, bibliography, index. The railroads that served the locality in Texas known as the Panhandle, which was best known as cattle and oil country, are discussed in depth. The railroads discussed are the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad, Canyon to Plainview, the Santa Fe Railroad, the Rock Island Railroad, and the Katy and other railroads. This is an as new, unread copy in dust jacket. An exceptional copy.

Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company, [1982]., 1982. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Red cloth, titles stamped in silver gilt on the spine, trains depicted on the front and rear endpapers, 287 [1] pp., acknowledgments, double column, introduction, illustrated, maps, footnotes, bibliographic essay, index. Railroads that drove the development of North-central Colorado and some that failed. An interesting an informative section on the development and use of snow removal equipment. Attractive dust jacket art as done by Howard Fogg. Fine in dust jacket.

Albuquerque: Sun Publishing Company, [1977]., 1977. First edition. First edition. 4to. Pictorial stiff wrappers, 40 pp., double column, illustrated, other titles. Reprints The American Railroad by Lyman Abbott and English And American Railways taken from Harper's Magazine 1885 & 1874 with many fine illustrations. A nice comparative study in fine unread condition.

[Paducah]: Collector's Books, [1996]., 1996. First edition. Fourth edition. Quarto. Stiff, color, pictorial wrappers, 199 [1] pp., introduction, illustrated. All values are updated for this edition that presents all kinds and types of railroad memorabilia. Fine copy.