Search Results: Authors starting with V from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990., 1990. First edition. First edition. Signed. Fine in dust jacket. Burke finds himself in a small Indiana town, attempting to clear a boy charged with a series of sexually motivated shootings. Burke feels that the boy is innocent and is intent on finding the real sniper .... along with the help of a young woman named Blossom, who has her own reasons for finding the murderer.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991., 1991. First edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. PI Burke works to save Luke, an eight-year-old suspect in a series of baby murders. Luke's past has been filled with repeated violent trauma by a child-porn ring with satanic trappings, resulting in a murderous thing that calls itself, "Satan's Child."

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988., 1988. First edition. First edition. Inscribed. Fine in fine dust jacket. A savage gang of predators is prowling the street in their "Ghost Van," looking for teenage prostitutes and then killing them. A $50,000 reward is offered by a collection of pimps to get that van off the streets in any way possible --- as long as it's permanent. Burke has his own reasons for locating the gang.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987., 1987. First edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Strega, an alluring Mafia princess, hires PI Burke to locate an obscene photograph of a child forced into a sex act. His search takes him into the underground world of kiddie porn.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990., 1990. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Burke finds himself in a small Indiana town, attempting to clear a boy charged with a series of sexually motivated shootings. Burke feels that the boy is innocent and is intent on finding the real sniper .... along with the help of a young woman named Blossom, who has her own reasons for finding the murderer.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989., 1989. First edition. First edition. Inscribed. Fine in find dust jacket. Candy, a call girl, wants Burke to help her get her fifteen-year-old daughter from under the powerful control of Train, a soft-spoken man who claims to run a safe-house for kids. But, is he rescuing ruanways or is he recruiting them for his own hideous purposes????

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1989., 1989. First edition. First U.K. edition. First hardcover edition. Originally published in U.S. as a PBO. Fine in fine dust jacket. Taylor Adams, a prostitute and artist's model, has committed suicide, or so it appears. The neurotic artist, Roxanne Gautier, had painted an unsettling series of pictures of Adams. Is she involved? As ex-cop, Kevin Bryce, investigates, he is drawn into a nightmare world of corruption, blackmail, and moral decay. Recommended. 1990 Edgar Award nominee.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1989., 1989. First edition. First edition. First hardcover edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. The area of Tahoe has recently experienced a number of art thefts. Jonathan Craig, a psychotic counselor, privately admits to policeman Kevin Bryce that he is the thief. Then, a local art collector is gruesomely killed and the eccentric sculptress, Katharine, was the last to see him alive. Was this an accident or was it murder? Recommended.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1989., 1989. First edition. First edition. First hardcover edition. Author's first book. Fine in dust jacket. The area of Tahoe has recently experienced a number of art thefts. Jonathan Craig, a psychotic counselor, privately admits to policeman Kevin Bryce that he is the thief. Then, a local art collector is gruesomely killed and the eccentric sculptress, Katharine, was the last to see him alive. Was this an accident or was it murder? Recommended.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1981]., 1981. First edition. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Fine in dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends. Professor Lovingwell has lost some secret government papers and doesn't know how to find them. He believes his daughter has taken them, so instead of going to the F.B.I. he hires Harry Stoner and advises him, " Get the documents back within a week or two, but don't let my daughter know she's being investigated." This message leads Harry into trouble, murder, and a mystery.

Port Henry: Designed, written and produced by Hay's Advertising Agency, n.d. (circa 1930)., n.d. (circa 1930).. First edition. 9" x 4." 40pp. including striking colorful wrappers that feature Samuel de Champlain in a birchbark canoe with two Native Americans that shows the Champlain Valley region. Black and white photographs. Double map at center entitled "Scenic Highways and Gateways to and through THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY" with the highways and gateways in red. Descriptions of many places such as Whitehall, N.Y.; Ticonderoga; Brandon, Vermont; Crown Point, New York; Port Henry, N.Y.; Lake Champlain Bridge; Route of the Air Mail from New York and Albany via Burlington to Montreal; and Plattsburgh, N.Y., et. al. List of hotels and resorts recommended by the Champlain Valley Council. Very good+ brochure full of interesting information.

Various., 1979. First edition. Fifteen books of which thirteen were written and illustrated by the author, and two were written by Mark Helprin and illustrated by Van Allsburg. Since the publication of his first book for children, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi, in 1979, for which he received a Caldecott Honor, to his best-known book, The Polar Express, a Christmas classic and a Caldecott Medal Book, he has contributed in an unprecedented manner to the advancement of children's literature. To date he has been recognized with two Caldecott Medals and one Caldecott Honor, as well as numerous other awards. Each book in this offering is detailed as follows. 1)The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1979]. First edition, first issue. Uncorrected proofs. One of ten copies. Text is tight with cover wrappers reinforced and moderate wear to the edges, else good copy of a very scarce item. 2)The Garden of Abdul Gaszai. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. First edition. Signed by the… Read More

New York: Jerome H. Remick, [1910]., 1910. First edition. First edition. Folio. Colorful 13 3/4" x 10 3/4" especially fresh and crisp pictorial wrappers for a popular Western song, 6 pp. (including covers). First lines of verse: "Down on the plains of burning sand - There lived a daring cowboy gay, No braver lad lived in the land - Thank wild and wooly Pat O'Day, But each night when the stars were bright, For a year he used to call, On a maiden sweet and small, But he made no love at all... Chorus: Come on, you Cow-boy, to old San-ta Fe, Take me a-way, Swing in that Sad-dle, we'll ske-dad-dle. Take me, and make me your Mis-sus O'Day. Sure I'll b your bride, If you'll on-ly ride To Old San-ta Fe. Following Santa Fe Song is "Santa Fe / Quartette for Male or Mixed Voices" (also copyright MCMX, by Remick). Especially fresh and crisp; minor edge wear. Very scarce.

[Washington]: Blair & Rives, 1840., 1840.. First edition. First Edition. Self-Wrappers, 18pp. 26th Congress, 1st Session. House, Executive. Doc. No. 178. Lengthy and informative report expressing a particular concern "as to the interference of the officers or agents of any foreign power with the Indians of the United States in the vicinity of the great lakes." Uncut. Near Fine.

[Miami Beach]: Dennis Macmillan Publications, 1987., 1987. First edition. First edition. Limited to 350 copies each of which is signed and numbered by the author. This is copy 173. Fine in dust jacket. Janwillem van de Wetering, whose life and career has parallels with that of Dr. Van Gulik, in this volume examines both van Gulik's life and work and the development of his metaphysical and scholarly philosophies. Drawing on research, interviews and correspondence with those who knew van Gulik, van de Wetering has fashioned a lively appreciation of one of the most unusual mystery writers of the 20th century. Important book on Van Gulik.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1933., 1933. First edition. First edition. Fine, bright, square copy in price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities. "A hail of lead in a New York street, and John Tarleton, state trooper, became John Tarleton, hunter of men!" A New York State Trooper pursues the murderer of a needed crime witness. The only clue is an eery laugh, and he's hunting for the murderer in the New York City underground. Dust jacket art by Dalton Valentine. An uncommon Crime Club mystery.

[Miami Beach]: Dennis Macmillan Publications, 1987., 1987. First edition. First edition. Limited to 350 copies each of which is signed and numbered by the author. This is copy 14. Fine in dust jacket. Janwillem van de Wetering, whose life and career has parallels with that of Dr. Van Gulik, in this volume examines both van Gulik's life and work and the development of his metaphysical and scholarly philosophies. Drawing on research, interviews and correspondence with those who knew van Gulik, van de Wetering has fashioned a lively appreciation of one of the most unusual mystery writers of the 20th century. Important book on Van Gulik.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1985]., 1985. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. A collection of short stories that while linked, stand on their own. Stories include a murder defiling a Buddhist temple, crimes of passion, and heroism of old age. "A touch of Charlie Chan's oriental wisdom; a soupcan of Inspector Clouseau's whimsical inability to be wrong, despite himself; a splash of Hercule Poirot's elegant powers of deduction" --- Enter Matsuo Saito ... the newest inspector in a Japanese police department.

Bar Harbor: Wonderly Press, 1997., 1997. First edition. First edition. Limited edition of 150 copies numbered and signed by the author. This is copy 46. Fine in dust jacket. A group of nine stories and a play selected by van de Wetering. The play is a radio play, produced originally in Germany about strange goings on at Robert van Gulik's funeral, and published in English for the first time.

[Miami Beach]: Dennis Macmillan Publications, 1987., 1987. First edition. First edition. Limited to 350 copies each of which is signed and numbered by the author. This is copy 98. Fine in dust jacket. Janwillem van de Wetering, whose life and career has parallels with that of Dr. Van Gulik, in this volume examines both van Gulik's life and work and the development of his metaphysical and scholarly philosophies. Drawing on research, interviews and correspondence with those who knew van Gulik, van de Wetering has fashioned a lively appreciation of one of the most unusual mystery writers of the 20th century. Important book on Van Gulik.