Search Results: Titles starting with U from Sandhill Books

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927. Softcover in good condition. Gray covers with black title, 24 pages plus 7 plates of pottery photos, 27cm tall, quarto. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology volume 21 number 8. A report on pottery and non-pottery artifacts collected from Nieveria, Peru, near Lima. Brown tone to the spine, rear cover has soil spots near the spine, small paper loss at corner of front cover. Ownership stamp on title page.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1924. Softcover in good condition. Gray covers and black title, 37 pages plus 16 plates of pottery photos, 27cm tall, quarto. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology volume 21 number 3. A report on the large collection of proto-Nazca, Ica, and Inca pottery from the Ica valley of southern Peru. Spine is browned and shows minor paper loss, covers have light edge wear. Ownership stamp on title page.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1925. Softcover. Good/no jacket. Gray wraps, pp 135-190, 11 in tall. Illustrated with 9 plates of Ancon pottery photographs. Published as volume 21 number 4 in University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. A study of pottery excavated by Max Uhle at 9 archaeological sites in the valley of Ancon, north of Lima, Peru. Ownership signature to the front cover and title page. Small paper loss at head and tail of spine, brown tone to the spine.

Houghton Mifflin, 1994. first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Francesco Corni illus. 61 pages, 12-in tall. Umm El Madayan is a fictional city, but it's history, architectural growth, and cultural development echo the evolution of many Islamic cities on the coast of North Africa. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. first paperback printing. as new. 268p, 21cm tall, octavo. Biography of Uncas, the "Mohegan Indian sachem who flourished in seventeenth century Connecticut."

Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Feminists Project Fund, 1975. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. 94 p, many portraits, 21cm tall, octavo. The Wisconsin frontier, the Civil War, the progressive years, and the twenties and beyond. Among the many women portrayed in this book are Jane and Ellen Lloyd-Jones, who were Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts and who operated an unconventional school called Hillside School.

Chicago: Newberry Library, 1976. 2nd Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Soft bound in brown illustrated covers, 47p, 26 cm tall, quarto. A brief biographical sketch of Walter Loomis Newberry (1804-1868), a brief account of the beginnings of the library, the library's general and special collections, and a list of former librarians and trustees. Sun fading on rear cover.

Viola, Wisconsin: Epitaph - News, 1990, c1989. 2nd Printing. Softcover. Fair/no jacket. Green cover and black title, 99 pages, 21cm tall, octavo. "Dedicated to the men of Charlie Company 4/3 Infantry Americal Division, who gave so much for so little." An account of the author's war experiences in Vietnam and the mixed feelings and turmoil upon returning home. Lightly worn copy that shows soil to front cover and spine, bottom edge of text block has marker line. Good binding and fine interior.

Palm Beach Gardens, FL: Meager Press, 2007. hardcover. Very Good/very good. David Martin Geliebter illus. Black cloth and silver title, 256 pages, b/w portraits throughout, 24cm tall, octavo. Photographic and biographic profiles of many homeless people in Palm Beach, Florida. Author's personalized, big and bold inscription on title page. Light rubbing to the boards and dust jacket. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Old Greenwich, CT: WE, Inc., no date, 1970?. Reprint. Fine/good. 289p, b/w illustrations, 24 cm tall, octavo. Bound in illustrated, white cloth boards. Reprint of a 1926 limited edition. Dust jacket shows chips and tears at top edge and very light soil.

Pacific Railway Journal, 1961. first printing. Softcover. Good. 34 pages, 11-in tall. History of an interurban line that became a steam railroad. A historical society discard with markings to corners of the front cover and inside front cover, otherwise clean and unworn.

Students for a Democratic Society, 1969. Softcover in near fine condition. Illustrated wraps, 23 pages, 9-in tall, many photographs. A touch of history concerning blacks' struggle against racism from 1947 to 1967. From page 3: Blacks are a "colonized people in the United States, exploited, oppressed, and suffering from a white Western racism which can never be eliminated under capitalism." Just a bit of soil to the covers, else is fine.

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1987. Softcover. Good/no jacket. Blue wraps, 112 pages, 9 in tall. A clean copy with light surface rubbing to the wraps.

New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/no jacket. Green cloth and gilt title, 416 pages, 20cm tall, 12mo, bibliography and index. Speeches delivered in 8 debates covering cabinet form of government; Japanese exclusion under the Immigration Act of 1924; uniform marriage and divorce laws; participation of the President's cabinet in congress; birth control; Mencken school of thought; ammendment of the Volstead Act(National Prohibition Act); child labor. Missing back endpaper. A clean and lightly worn copy.

Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1994, first printing. Softcover in near fine condition. Index, xxi and 807 pages, 9 in. tall. Author's personalized inscription on half-title page. Covers show just a trifle of wear, otherwise clean and unworn.

Labor Committee for Peace in Vietnam, 1966. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. unpaged, 14 leaves, 22cm tall, octavo. Photographs throughout that document wartime suffering in Vietnam. A clean copy showing light surface wear on the front cover.

Dodgeville, Wisconsin: Uplands Writers, 1981. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Bound in illustrated covers, 170 p, illustrations, 27 cm tall, quarto. Essays, stories, poetry by southwest Wisconsin authors, including Edna Meudt and August Derleth.

Dodgeville, Wisconsin: Uplands Writers, 1986. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Bound in illustated covers, 130 p, illustrations, 28 cm tall, quarto. Essays, stories, poems by southwest Wisconsin authors.

Uplands Writers, 1980, 1979c, second printing. Softcover in good condition. Beige covers with black title and illustration, 148 pages, 27 cm tall, quarto. This title includes essays, poems, stories, drawings, photographs, etchings, and woodcuts by writers and artists of southwest Wisconsin. Also includes 4 woodcuts by Frank Utpatel; and an article by Herb Fritz, an architect and student of Frank Lloyd Wright, about his long association with Wright. Spine shows brown tone, front cover has 3 light stain spots and brown tone at edges. Internally fine and good binding.

Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Pub., 1998. fine. xi, 379 p, b/w illustrations, portraits, frontispiece, 23 cm tall, octavo. Soft bound in glossy illustrated covers.