Search Results: Authors starting with F from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

N.P.: Privately printed, 1915., 1915. First edition. 9" x 6" in printed white wrappers. 2-page index followed by 32 pp. showing sizes, illustrations, composition of various rosettes, ornaments, front band, letters, conchas, buckle shields, harness rings, gag swivels, etc. Inserted is a letter from The Krenrick Mfg. Co. stating that effective immediately the prices for listed solid filled spots and spun back spots have increased due to the increase in the price of brass. Most likely an in-office reference for the purchase of various ornaments manufactured by the Krenrick Mfg. Co. in Akron Ohio for the Behrens Company. At top of each page is a percentage, and then beside the price list at the bottom of each page the original typed price is marked through and a hand-written price has been inserted. Rear wrapper has hand-writing, with item, sizes, and pricing. Pages lightly soiled and worn due to use. Front cover stamped at top and bottom with "The Krenrick Mfg. Co., Akron, Ohio."… Read More

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

[London]: Corvus, [2014]., [2014]. First edition. First hardback edition. Signed, lined and dated by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Caligula has been assassinated and the Praetorian Guard have announced Claudius Emperor, but his position is dangerous. His three freedmen, Narcissus, Pallas and Callistus, must find a way to manufacture a quick victory for Claudius...but how? Pallas has the answer: retrieve the Eagle of the Seventeenth, lost in Germania nearly 40 years before. Vespasian is assigned to lead the dangerous mission. In search of the Eagle and the truth, while being pursued by barbarians, Vespasian must battle his way to the shores of Britannia.

Prescott: Sharlot Hall Museum Press, 1983., 1983. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Color, stiff, pictorial wrappers, vii [blank], 119 [1] pp., illustrated mostly from photographs, portraits, map, activities index. Contains boyhood recollections of growing up in Prescott, Arizona, 1909 - 1927. As new, unread copy.

Nacogdoches: Fredonia Press, 1974., 1974. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Stiff wrappers, 41 pp., illustrated, maps, bibliography. A history of the early Nacogdoches, Texas. Nicely presented and scarce. Fine copy.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1964., 1964. First edition. First edition. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket, lightly sunned on the spine. Insurance again, this time a company that wants to set up an ongoing project to expose phony whiplash claims. Big ongoing retainer, big fees for each claim - Bertha's eyes glitter at all the legit dollars up for grabs. Donald is packed off to a dude ranch in Arizona to investigate the plaintiff in the first claim, with stern instructions not to stir this one up. It's not his fault someone's wife ends up dead in the Sierras, or that Sgt. Sellers is so annoyed at his 'amateur' interference that he throws away a key piece of evidence at the scene of the death. A Donald Lam - Bertha Cool mystery.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1966., 1966. First edition. First edition. Inked gift inscription on the front free fly leaf by the author. Fine copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket with light wear to foot of spine and corners and with a tiny closed tear and a few tiny creases to bottom of rear cover. Blackmail was a dirty business, and Donald Lam liked to stay clear of it. But for his partner, Bertha Cool, no business was too dirty to handle at the right price. And the price for this job was certainly right. What was wrong, though, was a payoff for pictures that weren't worth a dime, a free dinner that cost the blackmailer his life, and more than a couple of double-crosses that framed Donald Lam quite neatly for a charge of murder. Twenty seventh book to feature Bertha Cool and Donald Lam.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1956., 1956. First edition. First edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed at the spine ends and light spotting to verso and front and rear flap folds. Donald Lam and his partner, Bertha Cool, private detectives, are hired by a mysterious client to investigate Karl Carver Endicott, but the first thing they learn is that Endicott has been murdered The fifteenth book to feature Bertha Cool and Donald Lam.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1940., 1940. First edition. First edition. Fine in bright dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends, and lightly rubbed at the two front cover corners. Brainy private detective Donald Lam is always one step ahead of the bad guys, but he’s also smaller than them and typically gets beat up. That’s why his boss, the ever-cranky Bertha Cool, has hired a martial arts master to teach him self-defense. The third book writing as A. A. Fair, features Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Sharp copy.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953., 1953. First edition. First edition. Yellow cloth with title stamped in black on spine. A fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities. The fourteenth book writing as A. A. Fair, features Bertha Cool and Donald Lam.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1967, 1967. First edition. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free fly leaf: "To Helen Moore, my Hollywood Della Street, with love from Uncle Erle. Erle Stanley Gardner." Helen Moore was secretary to the author. Bertha Cool was purring like a kitten. A client had just hired the agency to investigate a suspected insurance swindle, and in Bertha's glittering eyes, that was just the respectable sort of case they needed. Donald Lam had his doubts, but he began looking around for suitable bait to set a trap. What he didn't know was that the trap was already baited -- and more than ready to spring. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket with two small closed tears at bottom of front cover panel and reinforced on the verso with a small strip of cellophane tape.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1970., 1970. First edition. First edition. Small "ding" to bottom edge of rear cover, else fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with minor wear to head of spine, light vertical creases to inside front flap fold, and two tint closed tears to top edge of rear cover. Dope smuggling and a witness who is both more, and less, than he seems. It all starts when a client wants to find a missing writer – just to talk to him. A little digging (with descriptions of tracing techniques) shows his girlfriend has vanished too, and the trail goes south, to the Mexican border. Crossing the trail, going north, is a shipment of cannabis. Unsurprisingly for this business, someone ends up dead and the whole thing lands in court. Sorting out who did what and why taxes even Donald Lam's talents to the limit. Lam shows his considerable ability in courtroom maneuvering, which reminds the reader that he was a lawyer once. Twenty ninth and last book in… Read More

[London]: Little, Brown, [2017]., [2017]. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was an intern law student. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder. He'd said he was innocent. She'd believed him. Sixteen years later Tess overhears a couple of lackeys mocking a newcomer to the London Bar, a hopeless person with a murder conviction, running his own show from an old fishmonger's in Spitalfields. That night she walks back into Benson's life. The price of his rehabilitation and access to the Bar is an admission of guilt to the killing of Paul Harbeton. The government wants to shut him down, but there isn't a barrister that will do it. He's subsidized by a mystery benefactor and a desperate woman has turned to him for help: Sarah Collingstone, mother of a child with special needs, accused of slaying her wealthy lover.… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1999]., 1999. First edition. First edition. Author's first book. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fran Estes is accused of killing her twin sister, Sid. The last thing she remembers is the beginnings of a drunken argument. After waking up, she finds a cop at her front door. It seems that Sid's car has plunged off the cliffs surrounding the town. Things heat up when Sid's blood is found on Fran's clothes and a half-million-dollar life insurance policy surfaces. In order to clear her name, Fran must catch the real killer.

[New York]: Avon, [1973]., 1973. First edition. First edition. PBO. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Eighth book in the series. What is the meaning of a mysterious evil that spans oceans and continents? Who are the men clad in black, with Vs tattoed on shaven skulls, and who appear in the wake of wars, earthquakes, and fires? The Phantom, nemesis of evil doers everywhere, investigates a mysterious evil known as The Hydra.

[New York]: Avon, [1973]., 1973. First edition. First edition. PBO. Avon 14894. Former owner's name, else fine in pictorial wrappers. A kiss in a speeding train plunges the Phantom into a circle of death and mystery ... The golden Circle. Accused of robbery and murder, the Phantom, nemesis of evil-doers everywhere, fights to find the real killers and solve the secret of The Golden Circle.

New York: Pocket Books, [1990]., 1990. First edition. First edition. PBO. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Asked to help the elderly Moore sisters make funeral arrangements for their brother, Dublin solicitor James Fleming is soon investigating a murder when he learns that the old man was stabbed to death and delivered to his sisters' house in a wooden coffin. This is the first in a series, by an American who lived for many years in Ireland. Strong local color and some quiet Irish humor make this paperback original well worth reading.

Sault St. Marie, Michigan: The Riverside Photo Gallery, n. d. (ca 1885)., 1885. First edition. 4 1/2" x 8" oblong sepia image on a slightly larger printed mount, pictorial printed verso advertising of Fanjoy's gallery. A fine image, almost certainly of two guides in one of the canoes that would take tourists down the Saint Mary's Rapids outside Sault Ste. Marie on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Small, light abrasion to the verso where a small label has been removed, else a very good copy.

N. P. [San Francisco]: Privately printed, [1929]., 1929. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, 292 pp., preface. Title page features the author's portrait and he is described as "for thirty-seven years a San Francisco police officer." Six Guns 694 says "Scarce." Two chapters feature Black Bart and the Dalton Brothers. Gilt spine lettering a bit dull, else a tight, square, internally clean copy in dust jacket with a small hole at the front spine channel, else a solid very good copy.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., [1971]., 1971. First edition. First edition. Thick 8vo. Signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. Two-tone cloth and decorated boards, red front and rear endpapers, xxi [blank], 696 pp., introduction, chapter end notes, epilogue, bibliography, index. "At the end of the War the U. S. forces captured the German State Archives. Buried and unopened in this overwhelming mass of documents was a metal footlocker containing on microfilm the secret records of the Abwehr organizations conducting these operations. Inscribed therein was every name - real and cover - of every agent, every mark spent, every report received, every order given."