Search Results: Authors starting with T from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

Port Huron: Riverside Printing Company, 1923., 1923. First edition. First edition. 7 1/2" x 5" in pictorial wrappers. 80 pp. Illustrations. Index. The Caberfae Herefords at auction are the property of Irna Nelson Morris of Chicago, Illinois. "The Caberfae Hereford herd was established upon wild cutover timber or rather brush land in Wexford County, Michigan, near Boon. Selections were made for thrift and hardiness from the Fairfax, Anxiety, Disturber, Corrector, Columbus and other noted bloods, to represent the best individuals of the breed and the best herd of America and England." Pamphlet offers information about 160 lots offered at auction. A listing of terms and conditions; information about the herd for auction and why now is the time to buy; black and white photos of various bulls to include Beau Mischief, Repeater, Perfection Fairfax, Paragon, Beau Picture, Anxiety, Disturber, etc.; photographs/illustrations of and information about some of Sotham's prize stock. Also… Read More

[Morristown: Published by Railroadians of America, Inc., 1960]., 1960. First edition. First edition, second printing, which is the preferred edition. 4to. Book number 334 of an edition limited to 2000 copies. Pictorial cloth, titles and device stamped in black on the front cover and spine, [9], 97 pp. plus a 4 page addenda laid-in with added information and some corrections, frontispiece, introduction, illustrated. The history and development of this unique steam engine with locomotive diagrams, photographs and pages of rosters and locomotive records. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued.

Coffeyville: 1892., 1892. First edition. THE BOLDEST BANK ROBBERY ATTEMPT IN AMERICAN HISTORY ... EIGHT MEN DEAD & SEVERAL OTHERS WOUNDED! On the morning of October 5, 1892, Bob, Grat, and Emmett Dalton, along with fellow gang members Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers rode into Coffeyville, Kansas, with ambitious plans to rob the C.M. Condon Co. Bank and the First National Bank ... at the same time! Fortunately for him, gang member Bill Doolin was left behind due to his lame horse. Although the Dalton Brothers had all briefly served as Deputy U.S. Marshals in Oklahoma and Kansas, shortly thereafter they had become notorious for cattle rustling and a variety of robberies, including several train robberies in 1891 and 1892. In addition to the Dalton Brothers, most other gang member got together while working as cowboys on Oscar Halsell's HX Bar Ranch in Oklahoma. Known to many Coffeyville citizens, the Dalton's wore disguises, but as they approached the banks they were recognized by some… Read More

NP: The Kansas Academy of Science, 1951., 1951. First edition. First Edition. Self-Wrappers. No pagination. [4]. Map. Reprinted from an editorial in Transactions Of The Kansas Academy Of Science. The author provides an historical snapshot of people and events in Kansas in 1871. Includes the cattle trade, Wild Bill Hickok, and others. Full-page map of Kansas shows counties, forts, towns, and railroads in 1871.

[Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912 & 1913]., 1912 & 1913. First edition. First edition. 8vo. House Documents 1346, 62nd Congress, 3rd Session, Two volumes. Cloth, titles in black on the spine, 172 pp., (Volume I) and Volume II is maps. Volume I contains eight maps, all of which are present. Volume II contains sixteen maps and three profiles of Alaska showing the location of railroad route maps and individual routes to be undertaken. President Taft appointed a commission "to conduct an examination into the transportation question in the Territory of Alaska; to examine railroad routes from the seaboard to the coal fields and to the interior and navigable waterways; to secure surveys and other information with respect to railroads, including cost of construction and operation; to obtain information in respect to the coal fields and their proximity to railroad routes; and to make report of the facts to Congress on or before the first day of December, nineteen hundred and… Read More

New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1954]., 1954. First edition. First edition. PBO. Lion Book LL6. Light foxing to a few end pages, lightly rubbed at spine ends and spine panel and extremities, else very good in pictorial wrappers. Fourteen billiant stories by a number of fine writers. Jim Thompson contributes TIME WITHOUT END, originally published in ECONOMY OF SCARCITY in 1939. Also contributions by James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Roald Dahl, and others.

New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1954]., 1954. First edition. First edition. PBO. Lion Book LL6. A small bump to foot of spine and a tiny ink chip to bottom edge of front panel, else very good in pictorial wrappers. Fourteen brilliant stories by a number of fine writers. Jim Thompson contributes TIME WITHOUT END, originally published in ECONOMY OF SCARCITY in 1939. Also contributions by James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Roald Dahl, and others.

[St. Louis: Press of Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co.],1902., 1902. First edition. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Original stiff wrappers with embossed design and titles in gold gilt on the front cover, n. p. [256 pp.], introductory, profusely illustrated (mostly from photographs), portraits, advertisements. In addition to the many photographs of policemen/patrolmen there are excellent views of city hall, the court house, Anheuser-Busch Plant, District Police Stations, the Railroad Station, etc. Six Guns 2179 says: "Tells about the robbery of the Frisco train at Glendale, Missouri, and the final capture of Marion Hudgepeth, the leader of the gang. It also tells about the capture of Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion, members of the Butch Cassidy gang." A copy of this book has eluded us for more than 65 years, and this is only the third copy we have ever seen. Rear cover has a closed tear to the top edge, chips to top edge and to lower edges, else the interior is clean, bright, and tight.… Read More

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. Robert Atway, Series Editor., 1987. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with very light soiling to front panel. Assembled are some of the very best essays published in 1987, with an eye toward the risky, the provocative, the unexpected. The editor looked for well-known writers who were breaking old barriers. Essays that inform, amuse, provoke, and tug at the heart. Contains Robert Stone's "A Higher Horror of Witness: Cocaine's Coloring of the American Psyche."

St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1899., 1899. First edition. First edition. Thick 8vo. Decorated, blind stamped full leather, gold stamping on front cover and spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, xxii, 713 pp., frontis. [portrait], introduction, illustrated, plates, portraits. This book is one of five considered to be the five standard books on the Black Hills and the Dakotahs. Both Six Guns 2180 and Herd 2232 say "Scarce." Much on the first invasion of the Black Hills, Custer, Indians, gold, development of military forts, General Crook in the Black Hills, the Yellowstone Expedition, outlaws and lawmen, cattle ranching, mining, Deadwood, General Miles and the disarmament of the hostiles, and much, much more. Fine, tight, bright copy of an important book. Housed in a cloth slipcase. An exceptional copy. This copy is NOT the deluxe copy, it is a modern rebinding of the original title.

Norman: Univ. of Okla. Press, [1996]., 1996. First edition. First edition. Very fine in dust jacket. Cloth, xvi, 319pp., acknowledgments, introduction, conclusion, notes, bibliography, index, 15 illus., 1 chart, 1 map. Using century-old photos and copious documentation, the author creates a legal history of land fraud in Utah's turn of-the-century coal fields that intertwines national, regional, and local events. Volume 3 in the series Legal History of North America.

Madison: The Bieber Press, 1980., 1980. First edition. Limited to 200 copies. Designed and hand-printed by Gerald Lange. 9.75" wide x 15.375" long. Translation is taken from the book, THE POETRY OF POSTWAR JAPAN, translated by Harold Wright. The central image of Billy The Kid is a reproduction of the famous tin-type recognized by most historians as Billy The Kid. Fine condition.

Tucson: Ray Manley Photography, 1975., 1975. First edition. First Edition. Stiff Pictorial Wrappers. 96pp. An attractive and informative presentation of portraits of southwestern Indians and jewelry of various Arizona tribes. Near fine.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975., 1975. First edition. Fifth Printing. Cloth. 206pp. Profusely illustrated, many in color. Map. An excellent overview, this standard work is divided into 5 sections: Baskets, Textiles, Pottery, Silver and Jewelry, and Kachina Dolls and Carving. Fine in dust jacket.

[Tucson: Privately printed, 2005]., 2005. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Limited to 50 hardcover copies signed by the authors. This is copy 9.. Black cloth, picture of Climax Jim on front cover, gold stamping on front cover and spine, [12], 102 pp., frontis. [portrait], preface, illustrated, endnotes, bibliography, index. Born Rutherford Nephew in 1876, and named for Rutherford B. Hayes, He acquired the name "Climax Jim" when going on a roundup for a month, he laid in a supply of twelve pounds of Climax chewing tobacco to last him through the time period. Climax Jim went on to become a horse and cattle rustler, an escapologist, and an all-around rascal. He cowboyed for a number of the more prominent ranches of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, but somehow the honest way of life was not to be Climax Jim's way. He went on to become Arizona's most famous rustling cowboy. As new, without dust jacket as issued.

[Tucson: Arizona Lithographers, 2005]., 2005. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the authors. Pictorial wrappers, picture of Climax Jim on front cover, [10], 102 pp., frontis. [portrait], preface, illustrated, endnotes, bibliography, index. Born Rutherford Nephew in 1876, and named for Rutherford B. Hayes, He acquired the name "Climax Jim" when going on a roundup for a month, he laid in a supply of twelve pounds of Climax chewing tobacco to last him through the time period. Climax Jim went on to become a horse and cattle rustler, an escapologist, and an all-around rascal. He cowboyed for a number of the more prominent ranches of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, but somehow the honest way of life was not to be Climax Jim's way. He went on to become Arizona's most famous rustling cowboy. As new, in pictorial wrappers.

Tucson: Arizona Lithographers, 2009., 2009. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the authors. Pictorial wrappers, [10], 110 pp., preface, prelude, illustrated, epilogue, endnotes, bibliography, index. Privately printed by the authors. The most detailed and documented account to date of events surrounding the infamous Southern Pacific train robbery at Maricopa, A. T. in 1894. There are over 250 footnotes for 73 pages of text. Material on Frank Armer, Jerry Cerino, Frank Cline, Frank J. Cox, John Donovan, Frank M. King, "Lon Holliday, Jack O'Brien, Billy Stiles, Frans Oscar Toren, Wells Fargo & Company, and Southern Pacific special officer William M. Breakenridge. As new in pictorial wrappers.

Fallbrook, California: Privately Printed, 2009., 2009. First edition. First edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies by the authors. This is copy 22 of 50. 8vo. Black cloth, stamped in silver gilt on front cover and spine, with picture of the robbery on the front cover, [12], 110 pp., preface, prelude, illustrated, epilogue, endnotes, bibliography, index. Privately printed by the authors. The most detailed and documented account to date of events surrounding the infamous Southern Pacific train robbery at Maricopa, A. T. in 1894. There are over 250 footnotes for 73 pages of text. Material on Frank Armer, Jerry Cerino, Frank Cline, Frank J. Cox, John Donovan, Frank M. King, "Lon Holliday, Jack O'Brien, Billy Stiles, Frans Oscar Toren, Wells Fargo & Company, and Southern Pacific special officer William M. Breakenridge. As New in black cloth without dust jacket, as issued.

[London]: Thames & Hudson, [2010]., 2010. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial stiff wrappers, 160 pp., illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, portraits, map, author's note, picture credits, index. A guide to historic Wild West sites of the 1880's with material on outlaws and gunmen, Indian wars, notable western characters, soiled doves, famous towns, etc. As new, unread copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1987]., 1987. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Attorney Brady Coyne is summoned to a reclusive Maine resort hotel to negotiate a land grant with the local Indians. Upon his arrival, he finds that one of the the hotel's guests disappears without a trace. shortly thereafter, a poacher shoots a moose with a cross-bow on an ancient Indian burial ground. Then a guest is killed with a cross-bow and then gruesomely scalped. A local Indian is arrested for the murder on very little evidence, Brady comes to his defense.