Search Results: Authors starting with M from BUCKINGHAM BOOKS

Waukegan: M. Alshuler Co., 1915., 1915. First edition. First edition. 6" x 7" sheet folded to 6 panels. Advertisement. Illustrations. Black ink with the Utility Garment shown in blue. The front panel has a picture of a young woman wearing a Utility House Dress, a dress that reverses when soiled. The same young woman is shown slipping on the "UTILITY" like a coat with information on the inside of both folds. Near fine condition. Also includes a 6" x 2 1/4" business card for the Kroeger Piano Company, New York. Front of card shows the portrait of a lovely young lady. Rear of card offers Kroeger business information. Card is soiled and worn at edges and corners. Good plus.

Paducah, Kentucky: Privately printed for M. Michael & Bro., n. d. (ca 1885)., 1885. First edition. 5 7/16" x 8 5/8" oblong printed stapled wrappers, 52 pp., illustrated. A lovely trade catalogue for this Kentucky-based carriage manufacturer. Each page carries an illustration of a different carriage, a few of which show amusing little elves working on the carriages. Most give specifications on the carriages, including wheel and body size, leg room, etc. This M. Michael & Bro. catalogue is not listed on OCLC, which only lists an 1895 catalogue for the firm (three copies located); nor is it listed in Romaine. A small chip to the fore-edge of the front cover else a near fine copy. Scarce and quite nice.

Chicago: M. H. Tichenor, 1902., 1902. First edition. 5" x 21" cardboard sheet, accordion-folded to 5" x 3" and printed on both sides. On front cover is a color picture of The Baby, pulling a carriage. Opens to 12 beautiful color pictures of champion horses bred by Tichenor & Co., whose stable were located at the Union Stock Yards. Artwork was done by Frank Whitney, who was known for artwork of animals and who also did posters for events at the Chicago Stock Yards. The pictures of the champion horses include Drummer Boy, Bagatelle, Wellington, The Only Way, Radiant, Nut Pick, Burlingham, Challenger, Glorious Thunder Cloud, Glorious Flying Cloud, Fly, and Exclusive. Red staining to front cover and to edges of 1 panel as well as damp staining to rear cover. Green ribbon thread through the accordion cards broken in places. Good.

[Washington]: 1869., 1869. First edition. First Edition. Disbound. 31pp. Large Folding Map. 27.5"x14". 40th Congress, 3rd Session. Senate. Rep. Com. No. 219. A detailed response by the majority members of the Committee on the Pacific Railroad to criticisms published and reported by a minority of members of the same committee in regard to the reason why the Committee is recommending that the government should provide funding to various railroad companies to develop the railway system. An important report. The map is national in scope and is entitled "THE GREAT RAIL ROAD ROUTES TO THE PACIFIC, AND THEIR CONNECTIONS 1869". Produced by the American Photo-Lithographic Company, New York (Osborne's Process). In regard to railways, the map shows "Northern & Southern Pacific Trunk Lines", Completed Railways, and Projected Railways, with all projected railways shown in the western United States. It also shows most rivers and many mountain ranges, as well as cities and… Read More

N.P.: True West, 1959., 1959. First edition. Story taken from True West magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March-April, 1959. Printed wrappers, 5 pp., illustrated. Charles M. Russell's friends in Montana insist he was the supreme master of western art. Photographs of Russell, his wife, Nancy, and examples of his art. Fine, stapled into a manila folder.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950., 1950. First edition. First edition. Light offsetting to front three endpapers caused from binder's glue, else a near fine, bright copy in dust jacket with light professional restoration to the spine ends, corners, and extremities, and small, old water stain to the verso, not visible on the outer cover. When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the Slocums around, Archer finds that Mrs. Slocum might have the least of the family's troubles: her teenage daughter is desolate, her husband is in the closet and her mother-in-law has just come to an unpleasant end in the swimming pool. But why is their handsome ex-chauffeur still hanging around? And what does the sinister Pacific Refinery Company have to do with the all the bloodshed? The 1975 movie of the same name was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starred Paul Newman,… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928., 1928. First edition. First U. S. edition. Presentation inscription by the author on the title page. Fine in a professionally restored dust jacket. The story deals with a British cavalry patrol in the Mesopotamian Desert during World War I. A shot rings out and the leader, an officer, falls dead from his horse. Filmed as THE LOST PATROL in 1934 by John Ford, and starred Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale, and others in the cast. An exceptional copy of a scarce book, and considered rare in the dust jacket.

New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1979]., 1979. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. McGee has finally found true love, and she is taken from him by death. At first it appears to be a lethal illness, then a random sophisticated killing. McGee is determined to learn the truth. He follows some paper-thin leads, discards his identity, and infiltrates a terrorist camp sponsored by a cult religious group.

New York: The Mysterious Press, [1987]., 1987. First edition. First Trade paperback edition. 8vo. Originally published in hardcover by Cordelia Editions in 1984. Color perfect bound, pictorial stiff wrappers, 161 [blank], [2] pp., frontispiece, illustrated from photographs, portraits. More than two dozen distinguished writers pay tribute to Ross Macdonald. Contributors include Eudora Welty, John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Otto Penzler, Margaret Millar, et al. Fine, unread copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964., 1964. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Fine, bright, copy in dust jacket with light wear to head of spine and a small closed tear to bottom edge of front cover that has been internally reinforced with a small piece of cellophane tape. This has created a small discoloration to one spot at the bottom of the front cover. Private detective Lew Archer is hired to find a missing wife who has vanished, apparently of her own free will, only a day into her honeymoon. Archer's investigation soon reveals a deeper, darker story involving two murders 20 years apart. An attractive copy of arguably his finest novel.

New York: Knopf, 1959., 1959. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, and with two tiny closed tears to top edge of rear panel. Lew Archer is hired by an elderly woman to find her son, Anthony Galton. Anthony disappeared twenty-three years before along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. All Archer's investigation turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Beautiful copy housed in a black, cloth slipcase with three red leather labels on spine with titles stamped in gold gilt.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965., 1965. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing to the spine ends. Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? California investigator, Lew Archer, is hired by the principal of the private reform school to find the missing boy. What appears to be a matter of juvenile delinquency turns into a web of murder and extortion.

New York: Knopf, 1966., 1966. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to poet Donald Davie and his wife, "Santa Barbara, Calif. Jan. 10, 1966. For Donald and Doreen [Davie], with love and admiration, Ken." Davie taught briefly at the University of California/Santa Barbara and the two authors became friends during that time. Fine in dust jacket with one tiny rub at head of spine. Lew Archer is hired to find out the truth about a suspiciously suave Frenchman who has run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple enough case. But things start to look very different when Archer connects the elusive foreigner to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts.

London: Collins, [1969]., 1969. First edition. First U. K. edition. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket, lightly soiled on the white rear cover, two tiny closed tears to the top edge of the front cover, and light wear to the spine ends. Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect is their son, Nick, who has a real talent for disappearing. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he discovers a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime letters, and a mysterious hobo. Then a dead body turns up in a car on an empty beach. And then Nick turns up with a Colt 45!

Philadelphia: Lippincott, [1977]., 1977. First edition. First U.S. hardcover edition. Fine bright copy in fine, bright dust jacket. When brilliant, kind, and very wealthy neurosurgeon Dr. Fortner Geis Geis dies after a long illness, his young wife, Glory, discovers that his inheritance has gone missing. Glory quickly learns that her husband liquidated all his assets over the course of the last year of his life. She is now left without money, and her stepchildren accuse her of foul play. Glory asks PI Travis McGee to find out what happened to all the money. Travis discovers that the good doctor has more than a few skeletons in his closet.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1931]., 1931. First edition. First U. S. edition. Fine, bright, square copy in a price-clipped dust jacket lightly sunned on the spine, a faint vertical crease to the spine, and with light professional restoration to the spine ends, corners, and extremities. What was the mystery surrounding the great firm of Rynox, culminating in the murder of its president? A Crime Club mystery.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1977., 1977. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. A fine pamphlet in printed wrappers issued for promotional purposes before the publication of the book of the same name. The pamphlet prints the introduction for the first time.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956., 1956. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with one tiny chip at top flap fold area and lightly rubbed at head of spine. PI Lew Archer is hired to find Hester Campbell, a bomb-shell beauty and swimming instructor at The Channel Club, who has simply disappeared. As Lew pokes around Malibu, he quickly finds himself in a case involving blackmail, blood-money, and murder!

London: Robert Hale, [1972]., 1972. First edition. First U. K. and first hardcover edition. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with a hint of wear to the head of spine. A lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain, the intrepid Travis McGee finds himself arrested and charged with murder. And he can't help but ask himself, is this what they call Southern hospitality...?

[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1999]., 1999. First edition. First edition. Signed by the author. Very fine in dust jacket. Things are never the same for Dido Hoare after she buys the personal library of Her Majesty, Clare Templeton. After the purchase, Clare is found murdered and Dido is arrested after the police find a valuable stolen manuscript in her car.