Search Results: Titles starting with B from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

New York: American Bank Note Co., 1881., 1881. First edition. 16" x 32" one sheet, printed two sides. One side is a full color map of the U. S. A. by Rand McNally & Company and titled "The Eastern Span Of The Great Highway Of The Continent From Great Rivers And Lakes, Across Prairies, Over The Alleghenies, Down The Valley Of The Potomac To The Sea." The principal route is detailed and is from New York City to Chicago and St. Louis, with stops along the route. The other side consists of 16 panels each measuring 8" x 4" with 8 panels providing destinations, time tables, and rates; 6 panels have color illustrations and provide information of points of interest; the remaining 2 panels are in color and form the front and rear covers. Covers lightly used, else a very good copy. A truly beautiful production.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940]., 1940. First edition. First edition. Advance readers copy. Pseudonym of Lawrence Arthur Goldstone. First book as Lawrence Treat. Publication date of May 17, 1940 by the publisher stamped on front fly leaf. Spine slightly cocked, else very good in dust jacket light wear to lightly sunned spine else very good in dust jacket with light wear to head and tail of spine and to the extremities. Introduces Deputy Sheriff Carl Wayward. During a Fourth of July celebration, what seemed to be a giant Roman candle proved to be a man ... a man many of the townspeople wanted to see dead. Waynard investigates.

Kenosha: Abbott Publishing Company, n.d. [ca 1940]., [ca 1940]. First edition. First edition. 5 1/2" x 64" folded to 16 panels, each measuring 5 1/2" x 8." Color illustrated paper over boards depicting a train with eight different cars and connected in in such a manner as to allow for one continuous picture of a train when fully opened accordion-style. On six of the eight cars are the letters, "B & F R.R." The same scene is seen from either side. There is no text. Light wear to the corners and extremities, else very good.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (n.d.), N.D.. First edition. First edition thus. The Cowboy and the Female Doctor! Sparks certainly fly when they meet. And those sparks kindle one of the great romances in the history of the western novel. Three complete and unabridged stories, Chip of the Flying U, Flying U Ranch, and The Flying U's Last Stand. "In Chip, of the Flying U, Chip finds time on the side to fall in love with Della Whitman - and bump into difficulties with a Doctor Cecil Grantham. In Flying U Ranch, while the 'old man' was away his former partner, Dunk Whittaker, stocked a neighboring ranch with sheep - to the frantic rage of the Happy Family. In The Flying U's Last Stand, when Florence Graham sent a company of school teachers and farmers to take up claims on the Flying U's grazing range, she certainly started something." B.M. Bower, pseudonym for Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, wrote stories featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana. They reflected,… Read More

Chicago: Published by Curtiss Candy Co., n. d. (1955)., 1955. First edition. First edition. 16 3/4" x 11 1/2" promotional, pictorial newspaper, unfolds to 16 3/4" x 22 3/4," and unfolds again to 33 1/2" x 22 3/4," illustrated, map. This is a promotional advertising piece for the Curtiss Candy Company to announce that two of their candy products, Baby Ruth and Butterfinger, would be promoted on the show "Tales Of The Texas Rangers." Effective October 29, 1955, Curtiss would become a co-sponsor (along with General Mills) of "Tales Of The Texas Rangers" that starred Willard Parker as Jace Pearson and Harry Lauter as Pearson's side-kick Clay Morgan. The 33 1/2" x 22 3/4" interior fold-out is a picture of Jace Pearson, a Baby Ruth candy bar, "Tales Of The Texas Rangers," advising the show can be seen on CBS-TV, and the message "MR. MERCHANT: Please hang this poster in conspicuous location so your customers will be informed of… Read More

Houston: Stagecoach Press, 1962., 1962. First edition. First edition. Ltd. to 800 copies. Stiff printed wrappers, 30pp. Illus. by Jose Cisneros. Gives the 2 scarcest first-hand accounts of this epic battle. Elfego Baca was "holed up" in a flimsy shack in the New Mexico mountains in 1884. He withstood a siege by 80 cowboys lasting 36 hours during which an estimated 4,000 shots were fired at him. Baca emerged untouched although he killed 8 men during the siege. A fine copy in dust jacket.

Palestine: Privately printed, 1879., 1879. First edition. First edition. 7 7/8" x 6" four page brochure that contains a three page poem, written by request, and delivered in the College Hall, Wednesday Evening, June 25th, 1879, to the graduating class of the Palestine Female College. The poem was dedicated to the Teachers of Texas, who have so kindly received that earlier poem 'SHALL WE DIVIDE THE STATE,' with most cordial and fraternal greeting. In 1858 a school to be called Palestine Female Institute was authorized by stock subscription to be built on land donated by Reuben A. Reeves and Paul J. and Mary Simons. In 1873 the Palestine Education Association was formed. Professor A. H. Bailey from Alabama served as principal of the school, which offered literary, music, art, and telegraphic courses to both male and female students. On July 29, 1876, a new charter was obtained, and the name was changed to Palestine Female College. In 1881 in a second election voters approved the… Read More

[Lake City]: Western Reflections Publishing Company, [2017]., 2017. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Color, pictorial stiff wrappers, [6], viii, 196 pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated, appendices, bibliography, index. The story of a Colorado ghost town whose candle burned brightly for a short period of twenty years only to return to its natural state as a high mountain meadow. Bachelor provided the miners with alcohol, gambling, and to enjoy the ladies of the night. Riches made at nearby silver mines during the day were lost at night at one of Bachelor's numerous saloons, gambling halls, and brothels. Murders, accidents, violence, and destructive fires were commonplace. As new, unread copy.

Great Falls, Montana: Published by the C. M. Russell Museum, [2021]., 2021. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Black cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, color Russell artwork on the front and rear endpapers, xviii, 205 pp., illustrated in color and black & white, appendix, acknowledgments, sources cited. Introduction by Thomas A. Petrie. Prefatory Note by Brian W. Dippie. The life of C. M. Russell through recollections, reflections and personal perspectives by his wife, Nancy Cooper Russell. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

New York: Bantam Books, [1948]., 1948. First edition. First paperback edition. Text and drawings by Mauldin. Very good in pictorial wrappers.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968., 1968. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the half title page. maps on front and rear endpapers, 192 pp., introduction, acknowledgments, index. Introduction by Lowell Thomas (1892-1981), an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system. He was also a former high school pupil in Victor, Colorado of Mabel Barbee Lee. Memoirs and stories of life and events in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and extremities.

New York: Broadway Books, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone quarter cloth and boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, [10] 274 [1] pp., prologue, frontispiece, map, bibliography, sources and acknowledgments. The author tells of his travels and adventures along the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico. A portrait of a vanishing way of life along the Continental Divide. As new, unread copy, in dust jacket.

Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1984., 1984. First edition. First edition. Preface written by Parker. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author. This is copy 53. Fine in light green wrappers. Backfire was written as a proposal for a possible original screenplay. It was circulated in Hollywood, but remained unsold. "This is a story about how a man meets and makes friends with his wife's killer, not knowing even yhat she was murdered, nor that his friend knew her."

Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1984., 1984. First edition. First edition. Preface written and signed by Robert B. Parker. Limited to 126 hard-bound copies signed by Robert B. Parker. This is copy 55. Fine in two-toned decorated cloth. Special elaborate pictorial binding of a man with a gun. Backfire was written as a proposal for a possible original screenplay. It was circulated in Hollywood, but remained unsold. "This is a story about how a man meets and makes friends with his wife's killer, not knowing even that she was murdered, nor that his friend knew her."

N.P.: 1943., 1943. First edition. Colorful and attractive window card for the 1943 Warner Brothers motion picture. Directed by Raoul Walsh and screenplay by W.R. Burnett. From the novel originally published in the U.K. as Uncommon Danger in 1937, and as Background To Danger in the U.S. in 1937. The movie starred George Raft, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Brenda Marshall. 22"x 28". Fine bright copy in custom mat.

London: Chatto & Windus, [1991]., 1991. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Edgar Award nominee. Anna Lee is assigned to a case involving pilfered designer sweaters. She soon finds herself embroiled in a depressing and dangerous family drama. Is the designer's missing daughter involved with a pedophile, or has she just run off to marry a much older man? What connection does this man have to the stolen merchandise and to the designer's husband?

Great Falls, Montana: Published by Cheely-Raban Syndicate, 1922., 1922. First edition. First edition. Original printed pictorial wrappers. First state, per Yost and Renner 37, red printing on green wrappers. [4], 56 pp. Quarto. Illustrated with 14 full-page plates by Russell. The first edition in book form of 14 newspaper pieces which had appeared in the Sunday editions of papers from the Syndicate, each dealing with a topic or incident in Western history: Kit Carson, Yellowstone Kelly, The Pony Express, The Fetterman Disaster, The Wagon Box Fight, Chief Joseph, The Texas Trail, etc... A true Russell rarity. Modest wear to edges of oversized wrappers, else a near fine copy in a custom clamshell box with titles stamped in red on front cover and spine.

New York:: William Morrow and Company, 1971., 1971. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. McCorkle is hired by Wanda and her brother, Walter, to help them protect an Arab prince from an oil conglomerate that needs him dead by a certain date. But then, Walter is murdered!

Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, [1986]., 1986. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, orange endpapers, xii, 246 pp., introduction, acknowledgments, illustrated, appendix, notes, sources, index. Dust jacket blurb says, "In a study both delightful and scholarly, Joseph Conlin examines the social history of food on the western mining frontier." The author focuses on the mining frontier of the American West from the California gold rush of 1849 to the last boom towns of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada (1900-910). Fine in dust jacket.

New York: Lion Books, [1953]., 1953. First edition. First edition. PBO, Lion 149. Top corners of four interior pages neatly smoothed, else a fine, bright copy in color pictorial wrappers with the yellow edge-staining bright and even, and no trace of tanning to the pages. The fifth of Thompson's paperback original novels, a compulsively readable piece of self-mythology which takes the reader on a ride through Thompson's life growing up in the seedy underbelly of the American West. "Burlesque hawker, drunk, bootlegger - drifter, bellhop, gambler, steeplejack, oil hand, and two-fisted brawler - all before he was old enough to vote" (from rear wrapper). Dust jacket art by Mort Kunstler. An exceptional copy.