Search Results: Biography from Sandhill Books

Sauk County Historical Society, 1909. Softcover. Good/no jacket. Brown covers with green decoration on front, unpaged, 11 leaves, 21cm tall, octavo. The text of this slender volume is a paper that was read before the Sauk County Historical Society by H. E. Cole on Monday, Nov. 27, 1909. Ownership signature on title page and front cover. Light soil to the covers, a few pencil marks in the text. The leaf with an illustration is loose, originally tipped-in.

John Wiley & Sons, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Gray paper over boards and black cloth spine, xxiv and 326 pages, index, 24 cm tall (octavo), second printing. Fine in a fine jacket.

Cleveland: Society for American Baseball Research, 1998. Paperback. As New/no jacket. 141p, illustrations, portraits, 22cm tall, octavo. Joss, a Hall of Fame pitcher, played professional baseball in Cleveland for 11 years in the early 1900's.

New York: Mohs Seaplane Corporation, 1984. first edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 255 pages, 11-in tall, many photographs. "An autobiography encapsulating a 50 year career in American free enterprise." Short inked notation on title page and preface, otherwise clean and unworn.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Red cloth, 253 pages, 8.5-in tall, notes and index. Price clipped dust jacket with a touch of soil and wear. Fine in a very good dust jacket.

Ann Arbor: Acorn Press, 1984. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. 108pp, 21cm tall, octavo. Biographical account of a much-loved man with a severe physical disability who served as mayor of Archbold, Ohio from 1916 to 1928. He came to be known to the people of this village near Toledo as Squire Ruihley.

Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1991. Softcover. Fine. Light gray covers with black title and black silhouette portrait of Wolf, 56 pages, 23 cm tall (octavo).

New York: Doubleday, 2005. first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. pp 273, 22cm tall, octavo. Blue paper over boards, cloth spine.

Penguin Books, 1999. second printing. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. 251 pages, many photos, 23cm tall, octavo. "While recognising and respecting the place of Maori in New Zealand, King argues that Pakeha(European New Zealanders) too belong to this country and have no other home.

Honolulu: University Of Hawaii Press, 1997. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. xii, 252 p, illustrations mostly portraits, 21cm tall, octavo.

Madison, Wisconsin: Historic Madison, 2002. Revised. Paperback. Very Good/no jacket. 2 volumes, 624p, illustrations, 28cm tall, quarto. Part I is lightly rubbed on covers and shows soil at fore edge. Part II is lightly rubbed on covers and shows corner crease at front cover.

University, Alabama: University Of Alabama Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/fine. xiii and 222 pages, illustrations, 23cm tall, octavo. Red cloth with brown title on spine. Author's personalized inscription on half-title page. Trifling of soil on fore edge. Very good in fine jacket.

University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Soft bound in yellow illustrated covers, xvii, 278 p., 21.5 cm tall (octavo). Front cover shows .5 cm tear, owner's name pencilled on half-title page. Clean, tight binding.

Latrobe, PA: Saint Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, 2011. Softcover. As New/no jacket. ix and 137 pages, photos and facsimiles, 23cm tall, octavo.

Old West Publishing, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Robert Cormack illus. Brown cloth with publisher's labels applied to front and spine, 150 pages, 24cm tall, octavo. No. 163 of 775 author signed and numbered copies.

NorthWord Press, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Maroon paper over boards, 160 pages, 9.5-in tall. Author's personalized inscription on endpaper. Logan recounts Christmas in his youth on a southwest Wisconsin farm. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York: M. Shanken Communications, 1999. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Cover photo of Ernest Hemingway, 242 pages, 12 in tall. Volume 7 number 6. In this issue: "Remembering Papa one hundred years after his birth, Ernest Hemingway's proud and painful legacy endures." Also, the Tournament Players Club network of golf courses; Baltimore Orioles play against a Cuban baseball team for a bit of baseball diplomacy.

Viking, 2010, first printing. Hardcover in fine condition, in a fine dust jacket. Blue paper covered boards, 245 pages, 9.3 in tall. Author's personalized and dated inscription on title page.

Old Army Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth, 99 pages, 9-in tall. This title is a descriptive list of Custer literature concerning his biography, civil war years, the 1876 campaign against the Sioux, and more. Rear board with minor soil. Dust jacket with a smidgen of soil and wear. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2002, first printing. Hardcover in fine condition, in a near fine dust jacket. Green, paper-covered boards, 176 pages, photographs, 23 cm tall, octavo. Dust jacket shows just a trifle of wear.