Search Results: Titles starting with Y from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

North Yakima: Yakima Commercial Club, 1912., 1912. First edition. 10 1/2" x 7" in color pictorial wrappers. 64 pp., introduction, illustrations. Very brief history followed by extensive information on the Yakima Valley to include geography, topography, climate, the Indian Reservation, irrigation, products produced, methods of orchard development, live stock, dairying, transportation, communities, industries, etc. Numerous black and white photographs (many full page photos) of scenery, residential homes, buildings, agriculture, industries, public buildings, etc. Wrappers disbound from text. Light bleeding to first and last page, wrappers lightly soiled and with chipping to top of front wrapper and with tiny fold to tops of page corners.

N.P..: Yamhill county Development League, n.d. [ca 1908]., 1908. First edition. 9 1/4" x 6" in pictorial wrappers. [1] 2-64 pp. Illustrations. Foreword. "The aim of this booklet, has been to make it helpful to the home-seeker, and we have pointed out some of the reasons why Oregon offers great advantages to the man who tills the soil, who plants an orchard or is interested in the flock and the herd." Overview of Oregon followed by information on areas that have not yet been developed and land is cheap; climate, rainfall, geography, topography and soil, various crops that thrive in the area to include clover which hogs enjoy, apples, hop fields and walnut groves, livestock and dairy, general farming, the towns of Yamhill, McMinnville, Newberg, Sheridan, Dayton, and LaFayette, land values, etc. "The charm in part is climatic; in part is the character of the industries, especially that of orcharding. The whole situation appeals to one's judgment and spells Opportunity."… Read More

N. P.: Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1878)., 1878. First edition. First Edition. 5 1/4" x 3 1/4" one sheet, folded to 8 pp; cover illustration of man driving horse and rake. One side printed in green ink, the other in red ink. Declares the Yankee to be the cheapest rake, the best rake, with victories at field trials, testimonials, etc. Everett & Small, Agents, Boston, Mass. Very Good.

[Prescott: Yavapai Cattle Growers, 1982]. [Revised edition, 19992]., 1982. First edition. First edition and Revised edition. Quarto. 37 pp., acknowledgment, illustrated. A 50-year history of the Yavapai Cattle Growers, 1932-1982, and some revisions done in 1992. The officers and members are listed as well as people and events through the years. Fine copy.

Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing Company, 1903., 1903. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inked presentation inscription on the front pastedown sheet. Original red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, iv [2], 483 pp. plus 17 pages of advertisements, dedicatory preface, preface, frontispiece (Battle of San Jacinto from the painting by McArdle), illustrated with twelve full page engravings, portraits, including photographic portraits of the Dallas Texas Volunteer Guard, biographical information on many early state officials, footnotes, and contains an index for volumes I & II. Author was appointed the first State Librarian by Governor Hogg. His two year books are a wealth of documented information for the period and cover diverse topics including military statistics on the Civil War and its veterans, biographies of important personages and their portraits, agricultural information. The great Texas bibliographer's works are scarce. "Every bit as valuable as the early Richardson… Read More

Bristol: Scorpion Press, [1991]., 1991. First edition. First edition. Limited edition of 75 numbered copies signed by the author. This is copy 57. With appreciations by Eric Homberger and Ted Allbeury. Fine in quarter leather and marbled boards in transparent dust jacket. In the claustrophobic world of the nuclear submarine, Britain's top-secret communications system is being compromised. The traitor must be found!

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943., 1943. First edition. First Edition. Cloth. 538pp. Maps on Endpapers, plus 5 within the text block. A well-written account of the following events of 1846: the Mexican War, Fremont Expedition, Bear Flag Revolt, the great emigration to California and Oregon, conquest of New Mexico, Mormon migration, Doniphans expedition, and the tragedy of the Donner party. A fine bright copy. Dust jacket shows light wear to spine ends, else fine.

Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, [1999]., 1999. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xxiii [3], 241 pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, street map of San Francisco in 1850, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. Letters and diaries of ordinary men and women in San Francisco, California during its Gold Rush heyday. "these accounts render a rich mosaic of San Francisco's metamorphosis from a small Mexican outpost into a rough-and-tumble boomtown filled with gamblers and prostitutes, evangelists and entrepreneurs--men, women, and children from all parts of the world, arriving in California with the dream of striking it rich. The correspondents come from a variety of economic and social backgrounds. Some are barely literate, while others write as well as the finest authors of nineteenth-century travel literature. Their writings address a broad range of concerns, from business prospects and consumer prices to social mores… Read More

Bristol: Scorpion Press, [1991]., 1991. First edition. First edition. Limited edition of 75 numbered copies signed by the author. This is copy 55. With appreciations by Eric Homberger and Ted Allbeury. Fine in quarter leather and marbled boards in transparent dust jacket. In the claustrophobic world of the nuclear submarine, Britain's top-secret communications system is being compromised. The traitor must be found!

London: Constable, [2002]., 2002. First edition. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. "An international sports star is found murdered --- her face mutilated in a bizarre, ritualistic manner. What is the significance of the poetic text the killer has left at the crime scene? Why did he surgically remove the victim's left eye? And can a Cambridge lecturer help the police reconstruct the killer's fantasy in time to save her own life?"

[New York]: Thames & Hudson, [2014]., 2014. First edition. First edition. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. Here's a book that explores the idea that the Chinese were a threat to the Western world. Was it due to the appearance of the evil genius Dr. Fu Manchu, who made his first appearance one hundred years ago and became as well-known as Count Dracula or Sherlock Holmes? Or did he arrive early in the 20th century, at a time when our country was in turmoil, and what do the Chinese make of all of this? The author assembles an astonishing diversity of evidence to show not only how Chinaphobia arose in the West but also how we neglect the history of popular culture at our own peril if we want to understand our deepest desires and fears. There are 60 attractive illustrations, 37 of which are in full color.

Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1940., 1940. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, map on front and rear endpapers, 324 pp., numerous illustrations from original photographs, frontispiece, acknowledgments, introduction, appendices. bibliography, glossary. Index. Yellow Wolf, a participant in the Nez Perce War of 1878, died in 1935. He had told his life's story to his friend, Lucullus McWhorter, who carefully documented the events that Yellow Wolf related. He told of each battle and the hardships endured by the Nez Perce as they fled from the U.S. Army. Together, McWhorter and Yellow Wolf visited locations known to scholars of the Nez Perce War. This work is the result of 5 years of organizing the many recollections that Yellow Wolf shared, and additional notes gathered by McWhorter. An important record of the Indian side of the famous flight of Chief Joseph and his band of Nez Perce Indians. Affixed to the inside portion of the rear fly leaf is the rear cover portion of the original dust… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 1977., 1977. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends. Harvey Longmire, former campaign manager and Washington insider, is enjoying his retirement when he is visited by two old pals. The two hire Longmire to look into the disappearance of a union leader -- a trail that leads through the nasty side of the Capital's political scene.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1977., 1977. First edition. First edition. Inscribed by the author to a collector. Fine in dust jacket. A large sum of money brings former campaign manager and Washington insider Harvey Longmire out of retirement and on the trail of a missing union leader, a trail that leads to conspiracy and murder.

London: Hamish Hamilton, [1977]., 1977. First edition. First U.K. edition. Fine in dust jacket. A large sum of money brings former campaign manager and Washington insider Harvey Longmire out of retirement and on the trail of a missing union leader, a trail that leads to conspiracy and murder.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1976., 1976. First edition. First edition. Uncorrected proofs. Very good in printed wrappers with one 5" cut on rear wrapper. A large sum of money brings former campaign manager and Washington insider Harvey Longmire out of retirement and on the trail of a missing union leader, a trail that leads to conspiracy and murder.

[London]: Riverrun, [2018]., [2018]. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. As new, unread copy in fine dust jacket. July 1983, Essex. Fox Farm is, thanks to two corpses, neither picturesque nor peaceful. The body in its kitchen belongs to prominent historian Christopher Cliff, who has taken his own life with an antique shotgun. The second, found on the property boundary, remains unidentified. DI Nick Lowry is already under pressure: County Chief Merrydown was at college with Cliff and knows the family. Lowry must enlist colleagues Daniel Kenton and Jane Gabriel to answer two key questions: who was at the house with Cliff that morning, and what has since happened to Cliff's wife?

Meadville, Pennsylvania: Photographed for the Keystone View Company, [1902]., 1902. First edition. First edition. Complete with 30 numbered silver print stereo views [8 cm x 15.5 cm] on gray Keystone mounts [9 cm x 18 cm] with titles beneath the image and lengthy descriptions on the reverse. Views are housed in the original slipcase [19 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm] Title, publisher and bands gilt stamped on the spine of the slipcase. Nice collection of views of Yellowstone that follow the tourist route through the Park, beginning at the Northern Pacific depot in Gardiner, and then south through the Gate and onto Mammoth into the interior of the Park. "The Yellowstone Park trip via Gardiner gives the maximum of time at all points of interest. More than that: it is scheduled to bring the Tourist to each point at a convenient hour when the time of day will permit of a full and satisfactory inspection of the formations; it also allows a full-day at Mammoth Hot Springs, at the Upper Basin (Old Faithful Inn),… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1934., 1934. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine, vii [3], 176 pp., maps. Thoroughly reviews the general plans for the river, how the Yellowstone River can best provide irrigation for needy areas, plans to protect against floods, and profiles of the involved rivers. All nineteen folded maps are present. Covers lightly soiled else a tight, internally clean copy in very good condition.

Chicago: Poole Bros., 1915., 1915. First edition. 8 1/2" x 8" in pictorial wrappers, folded at center. 24 panels including wrapper. Illustrations. Tourists' map of the park showing North, West and East entrances, regular coach roads and Wylie permanent camps. Additional map of western United States showing rail routes to Yellowstone Park. Schedules, descriptions and pricing of various tours. Photographs include pictures of "Camping de Luxe," 1" x 2" piece removed from top edge 2nd/3rd panel along with light wear to fold and spine.