Buckleys (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. he Conservative Party is a very serious development that could be a portent of significant changes in American political life. And the Buckleys are the first family of this not inconsiderable phenomenon." The Buckleys is the first book to be published a (illustrator). Large Size Book.The Buckleys are acknowledged, almost without dispute, as the real heart and brain of the growing respectable Right in the United States. As Michael Harrington is quoted in this book: "The Conservative Party is a very serious development that could be a portent of significant changes in American political life. And The Buckleys are the first family of this not inconsiderable phenomenon." The Buckleys is the first book to be published about this large, fascinating, and important family. It examines their beliefs, their practices, their formation, and what the author believes to be the mere commencement of their impact on the United States-an impact that in his view is the more dangerous precisely in proportion to those qualities of the Buckleys that are the most admirable: their intelligence, their decency their genuine culture, and their total lack of hypocrisy. And while the book concentrates, necessarily, in good part upon William F. Buckley Jr. and Senator James Buckley, it is concerned too with the entire family and its history, beginning with the arrival of the first Buckley in this country toward the end of the nineteenth century. The Buckleys details the growth of the family fortune; the education and maturation of the many children of William F. Buckley Sr.; the early emergence of William Jr. as the chief spokesman for the family's belief in the responsibilities of the aristocracy and his later fame as author, television personality, friend of Whittaker Chambers, foe of Gore Vidal; and the politically significant election of James Buckley to the United states Senate. Based in part upon personal interviews with some members of the family and with family associates and in part upon research among primary and secondary sources. The Buckleys is a first-rate study of a family in action, living its beliefs, expounding them, full of passion and self-contradiction. It is a valuable and complete book on its subjects as there is likely to be.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Museum guide, 16 pages, illustrated.

Loose as Issued. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. A collection of 8 share certificates in the Brewery Company of Buckley's in Dyfed Wales. The shares written out in hand for "Consolidated Nominees Limited" with the major part printed in blue. The certificates are numbered from 75 to 150 and the share increase with the later dates starting at 1000, each share signed by the directors and secretary of the company Martin and Hywel Richards and Arthur Hardiing. Blind stamped brewery logo on each, printed on parchment like hand-made paper. *The company folded in 1997 after previous mergers. It was the oldest Brewery in Wales and the only one which having a Royal approval. (8 items sold as one).

Broadside, 30 cm x 11 cm, text in one column below four-line heading. CONDITION: Good, old folds, minor loss to margin in lower right corner. A rare, jam-packed minstrel show playbill with blackface performances by Buckleys Serenaders in their Boston theater, brimming with 'comic' descriptions of three acts plus general information. Part I of this program includes melodies such as Darky Felicity and Farm Yard; Part II features variety acts such as the song and dance version of "Sally Come Up", and a violin solo by F. Buckley; Part III is a three-scene lampoon of the 1858 Swill Milk scandal but entitled "The African Cousin." Listed is a "Nigger-atis Personae" with characters such as Hannibal Done-Harry, a colored Xquisite Xtraordinaire, and Mary Milkin-Pump, a Swill-Milk Maid. The last scene features the "First appearance of that extraordinary and novel quadruped, the Milk-Pump Cow, though not accustomed to a barn, she might be deemed a wonder to Barn-Um." Buckleys' Serenaders was a family minstrel troupe, with father James and sons R. Bishop, G. Swayne and Fred. They toured the U. S. and England, and operated the Boston Minstrel Hall from June 15, 1863 to April 6, 1866. Fred, the composer and orchestra leader, died in Boston in 1864; The Swill Milk scandal took place in N. Y. C. in 1858, when children were fatally sickened by tainted milk from cows fed with distillery mash and colored with Plaster of Paris; the filthy dairies were protected by Tammany Hall politician Michael Tuomey, known as "Butcher Mike", but outrage helped create perhaps the first food safety law in 1862.