Search Results: Titles starting with T from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

NP: Privately Printed, 1927., 1927.. First edition. First Edition. Stiff Printed Wrappers. 120pp. Illustrated with 112 reproductions of paintings by Henry H. Cross. This work presents portraits of 87 Indian chiefs and 25 frontiersmen. Each portrait is accompanied by a brief biography. This work precedes the well-known similar work by A. W. Schorger, issued in 1948, entitled THE T. B. WALKER COLLECTION OF INDIAN POTRAITS, in 164 pages, and presenting 125 portraits. Some light general soiling, and bookplate of previous owner on plain inside of front cover.

Madison County, Montana: County Clerk, 1873., 1873. First edition. 4 7/8" x 11" printed one sheet for Madison County, Montana Table For The Collection of Statistics For The Territory of Montana Which Was Authorized By The Act of The Seventh Legislative Assembly and Approved January 12, 1872. The sheet of statistics for 1872, for Madison County, Montana Territory were gathered in 1873, and dated Virginia City, January 31st, 1874. A. V. Corry was the county clerk and compiled the entered figures and information in red ink and stamped with the seal of Madison County and docketed on the verso of the document. The provided information includes number of births; number of deaths and of that total, how many deaths were natural and how many were accidental; number of acres cultivated and their output; businesses and their gross receipts; wages paid; materials manufactured; etc. According to this document in Madison County there were 51 births, 28 deaths all by natural causes, 3719 1/2 acres of… Read More

Tacoma: Nuhn & Wheeler, 1888., 1888. First edition. 5 3/8” x 9” in light green/blue color illustrated cloth covers with an image of Mt. Tacoma and the title text in gilt; [50] pp (including the title page and text on its verso and the back side of each additional page); following the title page, each subsequent right hand page of the booklet bears lithographs of views, buildings, and street scenes in Tacoma, Washington Territory. The inside front cover contains a full-page ad for the Oakland Land, Loan and Trust Co. No other ads appear in the booklet, which makes it different from most copies that have 20 or so pages of Tacoma area business advertisements following the lithographic plates. Undoubtedly, this version was specifically produced as a promotional piece for the Oakland Land, Loan & Trust Co. The inside title page has a printed line near the bottom that reads, “A copy of this book will be forwarded by mail on receipt of… Read More

Chicago: Baldwin, Calcutt & Co., 1889., 1889. First edition. First edition. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4" pictorial blue-green linen wrappers with faded title stamped in gilt on front cover along with a faded picture of Mount Tacoma. 97 [1]pp. plus frontispiece. 7 plates. Tissue guards. Illustrations. Maps. Advertisements. Double column text. Much information and illustrations to include climate, logging, minerals, its rapid growth, the great Northern Pacific Railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Tacoma's wealth, the vast and magnificent forests, its fisheries, hops and hop-picking, along with descriptions of various prominent people. Includes sections on the Tacoma Cedar Lumber Co. and The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Gig Harbor Lumber Co., and Link's Planing Mills; real estate, land development, and real estate agents including the Lombard Investment Co., Pinkham & Walker, E.N. Ouimette, with many illustrations of Tacoma residences and homes; the growing steel… Read More

Chicago: Baldwin, Calcutt & Co., 1889., 1889. First edition. First edition. 12" x 9 1/4" in dark blue-green printed thick boards with title in gilt. 97[1] pp. Sepia-tinted frontispiece with tissue guard. 7 plates. Over 100 photographic, lithographic and woodcut text illustrations, with some color-tinted and many full-page illustrations. Maps. Excellent land promotion published the year that Washington became a state. Overview of the state of Washington followed by an overview of the city of Tacoma. The overview of Tacoma is followed by articles about and illustrations of hops, hop picking, logging and lumber with sections of the Tacoma Cedar Lumber Company and The St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company, Gig Harbor Lumber Company, and Link's Planing Mills; real estate, land development, and real estate agents including the Lombard Investment Company, Pinkham & Walker, E.N. Ouimette, with many illustrations and maps of Tacoma residences and homes; railroads such as the Chicago,… Read More

[Tacoma: Allen & Lamborn Printing Co., 1910]., 1910. First edition. First edition. 8vo. in self-printed wrappers with cover art of a 7-passenger touring car with Mt. Rainier in the background. [8] pp. Printed in green on gold-colored paper. Double-column text. Double-page map at centerfold showing railways connecting to Oregon & Washington Railway, Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line, and Southern Pacific. Very scarce promotional brochure extolling the tourist activities within easy travel of Tacoma. These include a visit to the Mt. Rainier National Park, fishing and hunting in the Puget Sound and Cascades, staying at Paradise Valley and Longmire Springs, salmon fishing, voyaging through the Straits of Juan de Fuca, visiting Alaska, and Snoqualmie Falls. Faint crease to upper left corner else very good copy.

[Sault Ste. Marie: Sault News Printing Co., 1935]., 1935. First edition. 12" x 8 1/2" sheet, folds to 4" x 8 1/2," 6 panels, illustrated, advertisements. This is Michigan's "Niagara Falls" and no vacation trip to Hiawatha-land is complete without a view of these magnificent waterfalls. One panel provides rates for the 1935 season for the Toonerville Trolley of $2.00 for adults, $1.50 for children between 8 and 15, and children under 8 ride free. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed, else a good copy.

[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1996]., 1996. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Harry Pendel, Jewish-Irish foster child. is the guiding genius of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada, Tailors to Royalty. Andrew Osnard is a spy investigating the political maneuverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal in 1999. He also knows more about Pendel than Pendel knows himself.

New York: Atheneum, 1986., 1986. First edition. First edition. Author's first novel. Review copy. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Introducing Det. Insp. Lenny Schwartz. When a notorious art dealer is brutally murdered, Schwartz investigates. Schwartz's investigation takes him from the pits of the gay S&M world to the inner sanctum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

New York: Random House, [1955]., 1955. First edition. First edition. Faint erasure from the front free fly leaf, else a near fine copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners. "A tough, racy story about a used car salesman and his girl" - dust jacket promotional blurb.

Buffalo: Gies & Co., 1901., 1901. First edition. First edition. 6-1/4" x 6-3/4" bright blue die-cut card in the shape of a cowboy hat that folds to four panels with "Take Off Your Hat To "The Meyers!" on both sides. An advertisement for F. E. Myers & Brothers. "In 1815, Uniontown, Ohio, was little more than a frontier outpost. Less than 100 years later, the town had been renamed Ashland, and boasted 47 factories. As an early manufacturing center, Ashland was home to Reliable Match Co. ('Strike Anywhere Matches'), Kauffman Mfg. Co. (manufacturer of folding chairs used in Union Army encampments), Dr. Hess & Clark (veterinary supplies and disinfectants) and T.W. Miller's Faultless Rubber Co. (rubber sundries, surgical goods and bicycle tires). But Ashland's biggest manufacturer in 1915 was F.E. Myers & Bro., a manufacturer of water pumps and hay tools. In 1870, F.E. Myers went into business for himself and persuaded his brother Philip to join… Read More

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., [1955]., 1955. First edition. First edition. Author's third book. Some light offsetting to front and rear endpapers, else near fine, tight copy in dust jacket, lightly sunned on the spine and with light professional restoration to the spine ends and corners. Introduces Tom Ripley, an American ne'er-do-well who travels to Italy on an unusual assignment of larceny and murder. Filmed as PURPLE NOON with Alain Delon as Tom Ripley.

[Roswell: Old-Time Publications, 1986]., 1986. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Pictorial cloth, xx, 268 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated, index. The author tells of the move his pioneer family made to New Mexico, soon after it became a state. Much on pioneer family life, ranching, rodeo, lawmen, etc. Material on Billy the Kid, Bob Crosby, Pat Garrett, and Charles Siringo. As new, without dust jacket as issued.

[Roswell: Old-Time Publications, 1986]., 1986. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Pictorial cloth, xx, 268 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated, index. The author tells of the move his pioneer family made to New Mexico, soon after it became a state. Much on pioneer family life, ranching, rodeo, lawmen, etc. Material on Billy the Kid, Bob Crosby, Pat Garrett, and Charles Siringo. As new, without dust jacket as issued.

Guilford: TwoDot, [2007]., 2007. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Color, pictorial stiff wrappers, xiii [blank], 207 [2] pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated from photographs, portraits, bibliography, about the author. This book issued only as a trade-size paperback. Simple stones, roadside crosses, and grand monuments commemorate the lives of such characters as John Ringo, Pearl Hart, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, Lotta Crabtree, Buffalo Bill Cody, Red Cloud, Thomas Jonathan Jeffords, Stagecoach Mary (the first African-American woman star route mail carrier in the United States), and many, many more larger-than-life characters of the old West. As new, unread copy without dust jacket, as issued.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966., 1966. First edition. First Edition. Cloth. vii-xii, 244pp. Illustrated throughout. 3 Maps. A collection of essays portraying the Big Thicket of East Texas, and it's people. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

Baltimore: Wirth Brothers, 1939., 1939. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed on the front free fly leaf by George W. Newton. Printed grey wrappers, 27 pp., introduction, frontispiece [portrait of the author], illustrated, plates. Newton hunted buffalo during the late 1870s through the early 1880s. "Newton was employed by Frazier Brothers during the winters of 1878 and 1879. In the winter of 1878-1879 the firm ... killed 5,000 buffalo and these were skinned by a crew of six men. The district in which this firm operated was mainly on the divide between the Sunday and Little and Big Drys in Montana." "During the season there [were] usually two hunts. One started in June and ended in August, which was a rather limited undertaking, and the only purpose of securing hides at that season was for tanning purposes, but the real buffalo hunt for the purpose of gathering furs which took on the proportions of a gigantic enterprise did not start before the latter part of September. By… Read More

Chicago: The Breeder's Gazette, 1920., 1920. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inked presentation inscription on the front fly leaf from the author and signed and dated by him. Boards with cloth spine, [12], 217pp. + 17 plates. "A scarce collection of true stories, first printed in various magazines, dealing with the rough life of the cowman and peace officers of northern Arizona"--Ramon Adams. An excellent work, and quite scarce. Two small rubs to cloth on front cover, little dabs of glue to the front and rear pastedown sheets, else a very good copy.

Fowler, Indiana: The Benton Review Shop, [1925]., 1925. First edition. First edition. 8vo, Original maroon cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, x, 314 pp., preface, appreciations, introduction, frontispiece, illustrated from photographs, map. History of the northeastern section of Illinois near the Indiana state line. Much on prominent citizens and founders, events, etc. of the area. Six Guns 399 says "Scarce." "Contains a chapter on old Shafer, an outlaw of the early west." Spine a bit dull and a small spot to top edge of rear cover, else a near fine, internally clean, tight copy.

Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 1936., 1936. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Boards with paper label affixed to front cover, 89 [1] pp. Limited to 300 copies. Fine copy issued without dust jacket. An elusive Dobie item.