Search Results: Authors starting with R from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

[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

Greenwich: Fawcett Gold Medal Book, [1967]., 1967. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM d1830. Fine in pictorial wrappers. A shadowy trail of espionage and counter-espionage in a race against time as the machine that would destroy the world ticks on.

New York: Gold Medal Books, [1955]., 1955. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM 506. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. Cover art by Lu Kimmel. Cover promotional blurb by Erskine Caldwell. When the thirty-six pounds of gold he steals from a lab turns out to be radioactive, down-and-out thief Tony Catell has to stay one step ahead of the FBI while trying desperately to find someone willing to take it off his hands.

Greenwich: Gold Medal Books, [1965]., 1965. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM k1540. Fine in pictorial wrappers. An espionage novel where a girl in a painting was much admired by Goering and so, the painting was ordered seized for him when the Nazis plundered Rotterdam. DeWitt's assignment is to find the missing artwork, regardless of the murder and mayhem about him.

Greenwich: Gold Medal Books, [1960]., 1960. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM 967. Lightly rubbed along bottom edge of front panel, else near fine, unread copy in pictorial wrappers. Jimmy Gallivan has only three weeks left to serve on a seven-year term for attempted murder, when he's caught up in a massive jailbreak. He doesn't want to leave, but another con forces him to come along. Gallivan gradually realizes the whole jailbreak was meant to get him out, but he doesn't know why. Why him? Why couldn't they wait three weeks until he'd be released anyway? Someone very important thinks Gallivan knows something very important ...... something he simply can't remember.

New York: Gold Medal Books, [1959]., 1959. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM 864. Page edges uniformly tanned, else fine in pictorial wrappers. A former syndicate operative is being set up to be killed, but what secret does he have that keeps him alive?

New York: Gold Medal Books, [1958]., 1958. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM s825. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Freelance spy Anthony Wheeler travels to Tunisia where three Arab chieftains who had been feuding for years are suddenly acting very friendly. Wheeler's mission ...find out why. The last person he expects to run into is his mentor, Fairchild. ItAs good to see his old friend ... so why did it all feel so wrong? This story is fully devoted to international intrigue.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1958]., 1958. First edition. First edition. PBO. Ace D-297. Near fine in pictorial wrappers. An Ace Double Novel Book. The Cut of the Whip involves a kidnapping that is not a kidnapping because the victim is helping his abductors. Kill One, Kill Two involves an American engineer who is set up, and blamed for the murder of the notorious husband of one of his two flames.

New York: Gold Medal Books, [1957]., 1957. First edition. First edition. PBO. GM k1426. Light reader's crease, all pages uniformly tanned, two small scrapes to front cover, lightly cocked, and light wear to the extremities, else very good in pictorial wrappers. John Bunting's is obsessed with avenging the death of his fiancee Ann Jackson who was killed by a stray bullet during a robbery. Bunting, a young electrical engineer, discovers that Saltenberg, a local racketeer, ordered the robbery, and Tarpin led the gang. John learns that Tarpin is operating a pinball machine racket in Manitoba, Florida. Bunning gets a job working for Tarpin, assembling pinball machines and begins to plot his payback.

London: The English Westerner's Society, 1972., 1972.. First edition. First Edition. Stiff Printed Wrappers. 28pp. Illustrations. Map. Notes and References. Appears in The Brand Book of The English Westerner's Society, Vol. 14, No. 2, Publication No. 175, January 1972. An interesting examination of this noteworthy character in early Arizona history. Fine copy.

[Tucson: The Arizona Historical Society, 2005]., 2005. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed on the title page by the author and Joyce L. Jauch. Laid-in is a Christmas card with the original mailing envelope from the author in his home in England to an Arizona bookseller. Bright orange cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine, viii [2], 302 [1] pp., introduction, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, afterword, notes, bibliography, index. Mickey Free was the name given to Felix Telles, who was carried off at age thirteen by an Apache raiding party in 1861. Mickey Free was transformed into an Apache warrior and eventually served as Indian Scout for the U.S. Army. He moved with ease among three cultures and participated in the important events of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. This definitive biography is a major contribution to the Apache Indian War era in Arizona and the Southwest. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Tucson: The Arizona Historical Society, 2005., 2005. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. One of approximately 20 copies signed by the author during a visit to Arizona. The author lives in England. Bright orange cloth, gold stamping on spine, viii [2], 302 [1] pp., introduction, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, afterword, notes, bibliography, index. Mickey Free was the name given to Felix Telles, who was carried off at age thirteen by an Apache raiding party in 1861. Mickey Free was transformed into an Apache warrior and eventually served as Indian Scout for the U.S. Army. He moved with ease among three cultures and participated in the important events of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. This definitive biography is a major contribution to the Apache Indian War era in Arizona and the Southwest. As New in dust jacket.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947., 1947. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Cloth, titles stamped in blue on the spine, xi [3],336 pp., preface, index. 3793 records of the source material about the American Southwest. Former owner's inked notation on the front free fly leaf and a few penciled notations to the Preface, else a very good tight copy lacking the dust jacket.

[New York: Macfadden Publications, Inc., 1949]., 1949. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 8 1/4" x 5 1/4" printed wrappers, [4], 24 [7] pp., foreword. A true crime story from the files of the Pinkerton Detective Agency that took place in New York City. A phantom burglar was robbing the Center buildings on Fifth Avenue of securities, diamonds, jewelry, etc. and the office doors were all locked. Despite all types of security precautions, including the presence of Pinkerton and police standing guard, the robberies continued, all offices remained locked, and the robber escaped each undetected. The case was puzzling and made even more-so because the robber "may be one of the 1,700 employees, one of the 35,000 office workers in the various buildings, or one of the 128,000 daily visitors." Who was the robber, how was he making entry into the businesses, and how was he escaping? Moderate wear to the spine and extremities, internally clean, overall a good copy.

Austin: University of Texas Press, [1984]., 1984. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xxv [3], 266 pp., preface, introduction, prologue, illustrated from photographs, epilogue, footnotes, bibliography, index. Little-known and interesting history of America’s earliest military aviation efforts in Texas’s Big Bend region and from a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Texas borderlands. "Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground ... a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Texas borderlands. Here, at Elmo Johnson's Big Bend ranch, hundreds of young Army Air Corps pilots demonstrated the U.S. military's reconnaissance and emergency response capabilities and, in so doing, dramatized the changing role of the airplane as an… Read More

London: Constable, [2009]., 2009. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. It promised to be the perfect vacation with every modern convenience: exotic terraced gardens complete with an English folly, thirty-eight varieties of ice cream, and plenty of cocktails. Antonia Darcy and Hugh Payne never seriously imagined they would encounter anything worse than extravagance in this idyllic setting. But an uninvited guest at the garden party given in their honor makes Antonia his confidante. Not only does he claim to have witnessed the strangling of beautiful, wayward Marigold Leighton, he also insists it was their host Roman Songhera, the uncrowned king of Goa, who had committed the murder.

Chicago: Knight, Leonard & Co., February, 1894., 1894. First edition. 16" x 31 1/2" sheet folded to 32 panels with cover panels showing the Royal Gorge and Marshall Pass. Opens to a 14-panel color map outlining of the United States from Chicago westward and 2 panels with information on excursions along with rates. Backed with time tables and notes on Colorado's resources. Laid in is a 2-panel illustrated advertisement for "The Colorado" at Glenwood Springs, with illustration of and information about the resort. Excellent condition.

Chicago: Poole Bros., Printers and Engravers, 1893., 1893. First edition. Eleventh edition. 8 1/4" x 6 5/8" in light green printed wrappers, with title in gold gilt. 64 pp., engraved illustrations, map. A book of poems, descriptive of the scenes among the Rocky Mountains as viewed from trains of The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Before each poem is a picture and description of the place described in the poem. Includes poems about Palmer Lake, Garden of the Gods, Manitou, Cheyenne Canon, Veta Pass, Sierra Blanca, Wagon Wheel Gap, Toltec Gorge, homes of cliff-dwellers, Royal Gorge, Mount of the Holy Cross, the Black Canon, Marshall Pass, etc. Light soiling to wrappers and with minor wear to extremities. Very good. A nice item with much information.

N.P.: Privately printed, 1913., 1913. First edition. 8 1/4" x 4 3/4" in over-sized color pictorial wrappers. 96 pp., illustrations, introduction, index, map. A little book of information for the vacation seeker, describing the most desirable recreation places in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. To which has been added vacation estimates, giving the cost of outings in the Rocky Mountain Region. Information on camping, outing suggestions, outing supplies, nature, etc. Filled with information on locations of where to camp from Denver to Grand Junction, from Pueblo to Durango, from Salida to Grand Junction, from Grand Junction to Ogden, etc. 16 pages of vacation estimates include pricing for train ride, hotel, and carriage drive at numerous places. Game laws offered for Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. Over-sized wrappers chipped and worn along with light vertical crease and 1 1/2" closed tear to top of rear wrapper.

Tucson: Published by University of Arizona, 1934., 1934. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers, 69 pp., introduction, map, illustrated. University of Arizona Social Science Bulletin No. 6. Vol. V, No. 3. April 1, 1934. The involved legal history of this Tucson-based railroad which was formed in 1882. Light wear to the spine, a tiny closed tear at top edge of front cover and to the fore-edge, rear cover partially tanned, else a very good copy of the Arizona Narrow Gauge Railroad Company.