Search Results: Titles starting with W from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

N. P.: Privately photographed, n.d. (ca 1928-1929)., 1928-1929. First edition. A wonderful aviation trade catalog with 11 linen-mounted captioned photographs of in-flight Waco aircraft. Photos are 4 7/8" x 6 3/4" and contained in a black cloth dual screw-post binder with above titled gilt stamped on the front. The gilt lettering on the front cover is a bit faded, the photos are very clear and sharp. Overall in very good condition. This aviation photo album was a salesman’s book to show potential clients the diverse Waco aircraft in action. Ten of the eleven photos are captioned, i.e. A Close-up of the Trans-Continental Race Winner; Sport WACO Trans-Continental Race Team; The Sport Waco in Inverted Flight; A Flyaway Delivery of Three OX-5 WACO and one Whirlwind WACO; A Special Whirlwind WACO made to the Order of Mr. T. Higbee Embry, of Cincinnati; etc. Several companies operated under the Waco name, with the first company being the Weaver Aircraft Company founded by George… Read More

Banner, Wyoming: Old Travois Trails, 1942., 1942. First edition. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Pages [5]-19. Drawing of Fort Philip Kearny. Appears in Old Travois Trails, Volume III, Number 1, May-June, 1942. A well-written account of The Wagon Box Fight in Wyoming in 1867. "The Wagon Box Fight was an engagement which occurred on August 2, 1867, in the vicinity of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War. A party of twenty-six U.S. Army soldiers and six civilians were attacked by several hundred Lakota Sioux warriors. Although outnumbered, the soldiers were armed with newly supplied breech-loading Springfield Model 1866 rifles and lever-action Henry rifles, and had a defensive wall of wagon boxes to protect them." A fine copy.

Seagraves, Texas: Pioneer Book Publishers, Inc., 1973., 1973. First edition. First Edition. Cloth. iii-x, 340pp. Profusely Illustrated with Old Photographs. Map. A thorough history of Garza County, Texas and the surrounding area. Previous owner's name and address on front endpaper and minor bump to upper fore-corner of front cover, else a fine copy.

New York: Grove Press, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First U. S. edition. 8vo. Published earlier the same year in London. Two-tone paper over boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, black front and rear endpapers, [18], 509 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated, maps, epilogue, bibliography, notes, index. A history of the settling of the West from 1840 to 1849, the years between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Details the history of famous trails and overland journeys to the Pacific. Stories include the ill-fated Donner Party, the Whitmans on their way to Oregon, mountain man Jim Bridger, the historian Francis Parkman and the Mormons. In addition, Mclynn captures characters and situations, known and unknown, from almost every wagon train that crossed the continent in seven or so pivotal years (1841–1847). As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

1938. First edition. GARRARD, LEWIS H. WAH-TO-YAH AND THE TAOS TRAIL. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1938. First edition. Cloth, teg, 377pp., frontis [port], preface, editor's introduction, Garrard's introduction, untrimmed, illustrated, map. Vol VI of The Southwest Historical Series. Edited by Ralph P. Bieber, Associate Professor of History, Washington University, St. Louis. As new, un-cut, bright, tight copy.

Boise: Capital News Job Rooms, 1915., 1915. First edition. First Edition. Stiff Pictorial Wrappers. vii., 171pp. Frontispiece. Numerous Illustrations. Diagram. "Featuring the Journey of Narcissa Whitman, the First American Woman to Cross the Continent and Look Upon the Columbia River--Her Beautiful Character--Incidents of the Trail--Her Missionary Life With the Cayuse Indians--Her Dreadful Massacre Together With Her Husband and Twelve Others--The Taking Into Captivity of Two Score Women and Girls, and the Treatment Accorded Them by the Savage Indians--The Final Rescue, Etc." Some minor wear to the edges of the oversized wrappers, as usual, with some light chipping to spine ends. Signed presentation by author on front endpaper.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1984., 1984. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Dougal and Hanbury are back in the author's second book. A bit of blackmail convinces Dougal to agree to keep an eye on the leader of a crazy survival group for his old pal, Hanbury. No sooner had Dougal begun his watch than the barman who tried to warn him off is murdered. Suddenly big, beautiful, black Zelda appears, and just as suddenly she is kidnapped from Dougal's apartment. Dougal's natural desire to rescue her plunges him into a nest of criminal activities.

[New York]: The New American Library, [1957]., 1957. First edition. First paperback edition. Author's first novel. From this Academy Award winning screenwriter for A Place in the Sun and Arch of Triumph, comes a splendid WW II novel based on his combat infantry experiences. "In the Allied landings at Salerno on the Italian peninsula during World War II, a fictional platoon loses its lieutenant and senior sergeant to enemy fire, regroups inland to decide what to do, and soon loses its next-senior NCO to battle fatigue. This short but intense novel follows the remaining members of the platoon as they attempt to ascertain their mission and carry it out based on the only guide they have, a map found on the lieutenant s body. The day unfolds from there as simple as a walk in the sun, as simple, really, as war sometimes is. Some make it, some don t, and those who don t aren't always dead." One of the promotional quotations says "Private Brown knows human character so intimately and… Read More

[Hasbrouck Heights]: Graphic Publications, [1951]., 1951. First edition. First edition. PBO. Very good in pictorial wrappers. PI Pete Hunter searches for a missing man. The trail to him is blocked with three brutal murders designed to put him off the track.

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1954., 1954. First edition. First edition. Cloth, 185pp., num. illus., biblio., index. Thoroughly researched and well-written, this fine work is the first biography of Walkara, an important War Chief of the Utes in the 1840's and 1850's. As a young man Walkara joined "Peg-Leg" Smith, Jim Beckwourth, and others on their notorious horse-stealing raids on the California ranchos. A fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light tanning to spine, else fine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1955]., 1955. First edition. First edition. Published in U.K. in 1956 using the title Lying In The Sun and Other Stories. The contents differ slightly between the two books. Fine in dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine and one tiny spot on front cover. A collection of 25 short stories, most of which have natural settings, deal with outdoor activities ... hunting, fishing, swimming, walking, and have a very strong sense of physical effort ... the struggle with wild animals and with the elements.

Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1965., 1965. First edition. First Edition. Cloth. 64pp. Illustrated. 3 Maps. Facsimilies. Captain Joseph Reddeford Walker was a well-known trapper, fur trader, explorer, and guide. Written about by many, Walker left only a few letters of his own composition. In 1853, Walker appeared before a California committee to tell lawmakers how a railroad could be built across the Sierra Nevada mountains, providing the only record of his testimony. A near fine copy. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed, with light wear to spine ends and corners. Illegible signature on half-title.

[N. P.: Published by the author, 2014]., 2014. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed and dated on the title page by the author. Color, pictorial stiff wrappers, [12], ii, 137 pp., introduction, prologue, illustrated from photographs. Memoirs of working over 30 summers for the U. S. Forest Service in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington state and beyond to Denali and Mt. Rainier. The sixteen entries sketch out a seasonal life spent practicing a variety of jobs in remote locations, including fire lookout, smoke chaser and wilderness ranger. As new, unread copy without dust jacket, as issued.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1931., 1931. First edition. First U. S. edition. Originally published in the U. K. in 1931 as THE GREAT SOUTHERN MYSTERY. Fine, bright, tight copy in a striking dust jacket with only a hint of rubbing to the spine ends. When the chambermaid of The Great Southern Hotel entered room 49, she found the occupant dead in bed. When the body was examined, fifty gold sovereigns came tumbling from his mouth. But, only a few minutes before the discovery of his body, a bell boy had seen "number 49" talking to an attractive young woman in the hotel lobby. It was further proven that "number 49" had left the hotel with the girl and she had put him on a train thirty minutes after his body was found in the room. This is the first in a series of murders that Superintendent Wilson must solve. An exceptional copy.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1994]., 1994. First edition. First edition. Limited to 100 copies, signed by the author. As new in original cloth slipcase protected with original plastic shrink-wrap. Spenser and Hawk are hired to investigate a claim by the director of the Port City Theater Company that he is being followed. Then an actor is murdered during a performance of a politically controversial play. Suddenly Spenser and Hawk are in a corruption, changing identities and murder!

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1987., 1987. First edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Set in rural North Carolina, seventy-eight year old Mattie Rigsbee is starting to show a few signs of slowing down. Mattie is still a feisty, strong-minded lady. She is a devoutly Christian widow who makes a mean pound cake and misses having someone to cook for and to love. She would really like to have some grandchildren, but her children aren't complying, so she opens up her heart and her home to Wesley Benfield, a hapless juvenile delinquent who needs Mattie as much as she needs him. A sweet, funny, down-home tale.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1994]., 1994. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Spenser and Hawk are hired to investigate a claim by the director of the Port City Theater Company that he is being followed. Then an actor is murdered during a performance of a politically controversial play. Suddenly Spenser and Hawk are in a corruption, changing identities and murder!

New York: Random House, [1943]., 1943. First edition. First edition. Author's fourth book. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners with a tiny creased close tear to bottom edge of rear panel. Detective Inspector Sands in his first novel as the lead detective. detective. Toronto detective Inspector Sands uncovers a conspiracy while investigating a years-old car accident after the blind survivor claims that someone is trying to kill her. The Heath family's wealth hasn't brought them happiness. One daughter, Kelsey, was blinded in a car accident, and the rest of the family tiptoes around her and avoids discussion of the tragedy that took her sight and the life of another passenger. But the passing years have only fermented the family's unhappiness. When Kelsey is murdered, Inspector Sands is called in to investigate. His probing questions stir up a spider's nest of seedy underworld connections,… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008., 2008. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone quarter cloth and boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xiv, 369 [1] pp., introduction, prologue, illustrated from photographs, portraits, epilogue, acknowledgments, Works By and About Wallace Stegner, notes, index. This is the definitive account of one of the most acclaimed and admired writers, teachers, and conservationists of our time. Fradkin chronicles Stegner's formative years, from the raw, desolate plains of Saskatchewan and the canyonlands of Utah to California's Silicon Valley. A lifelong teacher and environmentalist, Stegner inspired countless writers and defended the wilderness against human desecration. Fine in dust jacket.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1947]., 1947. First edition. First edition. Corner ends bumped and small tape residue on front paste down sheet, else very good in dust jacket with moderate wear to the extremities. Set in Jericho, Kansas, in the late 19th century, a struggle for power between two men involve the entire town. Lawyer Dave Connors is married to Belle, the town lush. Connor's best friend's wife makes a pass at him ... a pass that he immediately rejects. She retaliates by printing vile lies about Connor in the town paper. The result is the complete destruction of Connor, causing him to leave Jericho.