Search Results: Authors starting with E from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

St. Louis: Privately printed, n.d. (circa 1880)., n.d. (circa 1880). First edition. First edition. 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" very colorful trade card that has never been folded. On what would be the front panel is a scene of a couple roller skating outside and the rear panel shows birds and a rabbit in a snow scene by "E.C. Meacham Arms Company, 400, 402 and 404 North Third Street, - St. Louis. "Headquarters for Roller Skates. These skates are also on exhibition and for sale at the Star Roller Skating Rink, 19th and Pine Sts." E.C. Meacham Arms Company is a distributor for Henley's Challenge Rink Skate and Henley's Spring Steel Club Skate. Shown are pictures of each of the skates. Also quoted are prices per pair. "Reasons Why The Henley Roller Skates ARE THE BEST. FIRST. Because they are easy-running, light, neat, and durable. SECOND. Because they are made of the best material, are elegant in their proportions, and superior in style. THIRD. Because by use of the pressure… Read More

N.P.: Privately printed, n.d. [ca 1893]., 1893. First edition. 6" x 26 1/2" sheet folded to 6" x 3 1/2," illustrations. Clear, bright illustrations of and pricing for kraut and root cutters, grinding mill, cob crusher, ensilage cutter, 2-horse tread powers, sawing machinery, etc. Some additional creasing but still very good. Very nice illustrations of products.

St. Louis: Democrat Lithographing and Printing Company, 1873., 1873. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, 42 pp. Wikipedia notes that "Eads designed and built the first road and rail bridge to cross the Mississippi River at St. Louis. The Eads Bridge, constructed from 1867 through 1874, was the first bridge of a significant size with steel as its primary material, and it was the longest arch bridge in the world when completed. Eads was the first bridge builder to employ the cantilever method which allowed steam boat traffic to continue using the river during construction. The bridge is still in use today, carrying both automobile and light rail traffic over the river. The Eads Bridge is the only bridge to be named for its engineer." Vertical crease else a fine copy.

Boulder: Johnson Books, [1996]., 1996. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial stiff wrappers, xiii [1], 210 pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated from photographs, portraits, notes, bibliography, index. Based on the writings of more than fifty women who accompanied their husbands to remote duty posts in the far west. These mostly eastern ladies, heroines all, battled loneliness, privation, disease, depression, and sometimes hunger and did much to advance the cause of women's liberation. Fine, unread copy.

N. P.: Privately printed by Ruth R. Ealy, 1955., 1955. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth, [5], 243 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated from photographs. Author's father, Dr. T. F. Ealy, a medical missionary, arrived in Lincoln in time to officiate at John Henry Tunstall's funeral. Much on the Lincoln County War, information of the burning of McSween's home, new material on Billy the Kid, and with information of the cattle industry in New Mexico. An unusual copy that bears the author's inked signature twice on the front free fly leaf and a small newsprint copy of her obituary is affixed to the front pastedown sheet. Laid-in is a post card dated 4-2-56 from Texas bookseller Bill Morrison with a handwritten note advising the customer that he could not get the 20 copies of this title he had on order, but he would fill the order when the copies arrived. Also laid-in is a copy of a typed letter of 1976 from Robert Mullin to Bob (McCubbin) that discusses Lincoln County, John… Read More

Honolulu & Los Angeles: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles Steamship Company, Territorial Hotel Company, Ltd., 1928., 1928. First edition. Eight pieces. Piece #1. 6" x 3 1/2" in printed wrappers with green ink lettering. [32] pp. Printed wrappers with green ink lettering. Slightly sunned. Piece #2/3. 7 3/4" x 16" sheet folded to 8 panels with cover art showing a view of the city of Honolulu. Printed in orange and blue and with decorative borders. Light soiling. Piece #4. 11" x 8 1/2" typed, mimeographed and stapled at gutter. Minor age toning, creasing and with one small chip to top corner. Item #5/6. 9 1/4" x 12" folded to 4 panels with striking Art Deco cover art. Light soiling and with creasing to bottom corners and light wear to the extremities. Item #7. 91/4" x 12" folded to 4 panels with bright colorful Art Deco cover art. Light soiling and with light wear to extremities. Item #8. 9" x 12" on orange-tinted paper and… Read More

Jersey City: Published by Clark Johnson, M. D., 1873., 1873. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Original orange cloth, titles stamped in black on the front cover and spine, 309 pp. [blank], plus one page of advertising, frontispiece, illustrated, plates, advertisement. "Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic elixir or commonly known as 'Snake Oil.' Using the fictitious heroes, Edwin Eastman and his wife, Mr. Johnson penned the hair-raising tale of a pioneer family wandering off the wagon trail and straight into the heart of hostile Indian country. All but he and his wife were struck down in the ensuing battle. Captured, Edwin and Mrs. Eastman survived only to be imprisoned by the Comanche Nation with Mrs. Eastman eventually being sold to the Apache's. Edwin, lives among the Comanches for seven long and torturous years. Demonstrating courage and tenacity, Edwin was taken in by the… Read More

N. P.: W. A. Wilde Company, Publishers, [1922]., 1922. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth with pictorial inset on front cover, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, [14], 245 pp., frontispiece, illustrated from photographs. Illustrations by Fred H. Kiser. Memories of camping, packing in by horseback, hiking, etc. in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s with observations on plants, trees, birds, geology, wildlife, etc. Includes sections on Crater Lake, Glacier Park, Lake Chelan, Mount Jefferson, the Columbia Highway, etc. Very nice, bright and clean copy in fine condition.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938., 1938. First edition. First edition. Inscribed on the front free fly leaf : "For Irma Merrick / With very best wishes / Mignon G. Eberhart." Fine, bright copy in a sharp copy of the rare dust jacket. Basis for the 1945 Republic Pictures film noir "Three's A Crowd." When her fiance is mysteriously murdered, heiress Diane Whipple reluctantly agrees to marry Jeffrey Locke. Since both Diane and Jeffrey visited the dead man just before the murder, both are under suspicion and neither completely trusts the other. Housed in a two-tone quarter leather and cloth clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. An exceptional copy of an elusive title.

New York: Bantam Books, [1946]., 1946. First edition. First paperback edition. Bantam Book 46. Fine, unread copy in pictorial wrappers.

[Arlington]: Corral Dust, 1962., 1962. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Vol. VII, No. 5, October, 1962 issue of Corral Dust by the Potomac Corral of the Westerners. Printed wrappers, 8 pp., illustrated. An interesting report of a dispute in 1866 - 67 Montana over the ownership of mining ground at Cave Gulch. Cave Gulch is about 20 miles northeast of Helena, the county seat, where the trial was held. Also contains an article entitled, "Sketched in the Arena" by William Gardner Bell that discusses the fact that over many years, various top western artists drew the artwork for the Madison Square Garden rodeo programs ... a rodeo that came to town every month during the month of October. In addition is an article by Neil W. Kimball entitled, "A Dozen Claimants - Colorado Got It;" an article about how "No-Man's Land" eventually was determined to be a part of the United States and the State of Colorado. Fine.

Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico: Dale Edaakie, n. d. (ca. 1980)., 1980. First edition. This 2" x 3" belt buckle was created with multi-stone inlay over silver by Dale Edaakie of Zuni Pueblo. The featured image is that of the iconic American Bison, more commonly called a buffalo. The artist textured the bison to represent the hair of a live animal. The bison is inset into the silver backing deep enough to make a smooth finish. The result is an excellent example of wearable art. The back of the buckle is stamped with the artist's name and pueblo.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1987., 1987. First edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Set in rural North Carolina, seventy-eight year old Mattie Rigsbee is starting to show a few signs of slowing down. Mattie is still a feisty, strong-minded lady. She is a devoutly Christian widow who makes a mean pound cake and misses having someone to cook for and to love. She would really like to have some grandchildren, but her children aren't complying, so she opens up her heart and her home to Wesley Benfield, a hapless juvenile delinquent who needs Mattie as much as she needs him. A sweet, funny, down-home tale.

Huron: Huronite Printing Co., 1907., 1907. First edition. VOLUME I: First edition. 8vo. Three quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, 700 pp., introductory, index. Top edge of spine panel a little frayed, leather lightly rubbed at foot of spine else a very good, tight copy. VOLUME II: Huron: Huronite Printing Co., [1907]. First edition. 8vo. Three quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, 575 pp., index. Light wear to leather at corners and very lightly rubbed on binding, else very good, tight copy. These constitutional debates cover all activities of these two conventions held in 1885 and in 1889. A very good set.

N.P.: ca. 1900., ca. 1900. First edition. A fabulous advertising piece for Ed. Pinaud and his Parfumerie in Paris. It is a folded stiff card showing the 40 possibilities of moustache, beard and sideburn possibilities and assures the consumer that it "imparts to the hair and moustache softness and brilliancy. No gentleman's dressing table complete without it." Mr. Ed Pinaud placed above competition at the Paris Exposition of 1900. On one side are the 40 beard, mustache and sideburn profiles. When opened it measures 22 1/2" x 28 1/2" This side is near mint with only the slightest of stain. The obverse side is advertising Pinaud's other products, those being Eau De Quinine Hair Tonic - The best Hair Restorer. A Positive Dandruff Cure; Ed Pinaud - Unsurpassed Extract Vegetal to use after shaving and Ed. Pinaud's Brillantine - Unequaled for imparting to the Hair and Moustache brilliancy and softness. Several stains to this side, but overall in very good condition. The… Read More

Denver: The H.H. Tammen Curio Co., 1905., 1905. First edition. Approximately 5 1/5" x 9" with dome of state capitol rising another inch at center of booklet, in color pictorial wrappers depicting the capitol building and its grounds on the front cover and depicting Denver's business section on the rear cover. 32 pp., illustrations. "A descriptive view book telling by pen and camera the story of Denver - the metropolis of the West-springing up as if by magic where, less than fifty years ago, roamed vast herds of buffalo and antelope, disturbed only by the red man and the prairie wolf." Offers the history of Denver as well as information on and numerous pictures of various scenes in Denver to include the Union Depot, its county buildings, its business and residence streets, various business buildings, theaters, hotels, clubs, its architecture, churches, schools, parks, etc. A two-page scene of the city of Denver at center. Light crease to front cover corner, else a very good… Read More

Denver: The H.H. Tammen Curio Co., 1905., 1905. First edition. Approximately 5 1/5" x 9" with dome of state capitol rising another inch at center of booklet, in color pictorial wrappers depicting the capitol building and its grounds on the front cover and depicting Denver's business section on the rear cover. 32 pp., illustrations. "A descriptive view book telling by pen and camera the story of Denver - the metropolis of the West-springing up as if by magic where, less than fifty years ago, roamed vast herds of buffalo and antelope, disturbed only by the red man and the prairie wolf." Offers the history of Denver as well as information on and numerous pictures of various scenes in Denver to include the Union Depot, its county buildings, its business and residence streets, various business buildings, theaters, hotels, clubs, its architecture, churches, schools, parks, etc. A two-page scene of the city of Denver at center. Very light water stains to tops and bottoms of inside… Read More

Cincinnati: Stereotyped and Published By J. A. James & CO., 1836., 1836. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Original cloth, paper label on the spine with titles in black, xii, 13 - 336 pp., preface, appendix. Raines' Bibliography of Texas page 74 says: "One of the few choice early histories of Texas, though the author was rather Mexican in his politics. Among the rare public documents inserted, are the proposed constitution of Texas drawn up in the convention of 1832-33, and the Mexican constitution of 1824. Specifically valuable for full treatment of the times just before the Revolution." Howes E 48: "Conditions just prior to the Revolution described by an actual observer." This copy lacks the elusive map, which has been usual for us in handling previous copies, foxed throughout, cloth is light worn at the spine ends, else a good, tight and serviceable copy of an scarce book. We have never handled a copy with the map present.

[London]: Orenda Books, [2017]., [2017]. First edition. First edition. Signed by the editor along with nine other contributing authors to include Kate Ellis, J.M. Hewitt, William Burton McCormick, William Ryan, et. al. As new, unread in fine dust jacket. "Crime spreads across the globe in this new collection of short stories from the Crime Writer’s Association, as a conspiracy of prominent crime authors take you on a world mystery tour. Highlights of the trip include a treacherous cruise to French Polynesia, a horrifying trek in South Africa, a murderous train-ride across Ukraine and a vengeful killing in Mumbai. But back home in the UK, life isn’t so easy either. Dead bodies turn up on the backstreets of Glasgow, crime writers turn words into deeds at literary events, and Lady Luck seems to guide the fate of a Twickenham hood. Showcasing the range, breadth and vitality of the contemporary crime-fiction genre, these 28 chilling and unputdownable stories will… Read More

Harrisburg: The Stackpole Company, [1953]., 1953. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Two-tone green cloth, plan of Colt's armory on front and rear endpapers, 470 pp., frontispiece [portrait], preface, foreword, numerous illustrations, requiem, bibliography and sources, index. The story of an amazing family and the story of a new procedure, mass production. The Colt revolver was basically a weapon of the civilian as both the Army and Navy and politicians repeatedly rebuffed his efforts to have the revolver authorized for military use. It wasn't until after Colt's death and the Civil War was underway that his firearms became major weapons in both handguns and rifle versions. Light bump to corners, else a fine copy. Dust jacket shows some minor edgewear and very minor chipping to spine ends.