Search Results: History from Sandhill Books

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve/Alaska Association for Historic Preservation, 2014. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. 264 pages, many illustrations, 21cm tall, octavo, bibliography and index. DVD included, pocket is affixed to inside rear cover. The emphasis of this book is the impact of the Euroamerican settlers on the native Dena'ina people and of the Lake Clark Dena'ina on the Euroamericans. Lake Clark National Park and Preserve includes the isolated Twin Lakes area, where Richard Proenneke filmed his daily life and the construction of his log cabin. Covers show minor wear, otherwise a fine copy, sound and clean.

New Orleans: Louisiana State Museum, 1968. Softcover in very good condition. Tan covers with blind stamped decoration, 87 pages of text and 42 plates, 9.5 in. tall, bibliography. An exhibition catalog listing 225 items and divided into 3 parts: colonial history 1700-1803; ante-bellum history 1803 to 1860; Civil War and post Civil War history 1860-1940. Includes essays on furniture, miniatures, silver, 19th century painting, and New Orleans history. Also brief biographies of painters in this exhibition. Covers show a touch of edge wear. Ownership ink stamp on half-title page.

Nimbus Publishing, 1996, c1992. third printing. Softcover. Fine. 214 pages, 9-in tall, index and bibliography. Many photographs and maps.

Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014. second edition. A study of the aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia, the refugees, the Vietnam/Cambodia conflict, and the Pol Pot regime. xxix and 455 pages, 8.5-in tall.

Alexandria, Va.: Alexandria Historical Society, 1977. Trade Paperback. Fine/no jacket. xv, 205p, illustrations, 21cm tall. Spine is bumped at corner.

Washington DC: Committee on Public Information, 1917. Softcover. Good/no jacket. 24 pages, 22cm tall, octavo. Published in the War Information Series, sixth title. Woodrow Wilson's "Tibute to the Foreign Born" followed by seven essays written by Americans of German descent regarding their "America first" loyalty. Covers show light soil. A sound and unworn copy.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 233p, illustrations, maps, folded map in rear pocket, plates, 22cm tall, octavo.

Dorset Press, 1984. Third edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarter bound in brown paper boards and black cloth spine with gilt title on spine, 121 pp. plus bibliography, 24.5 cm tall (octavo). Cartography by Arthur Banks and T. A. Bicknell. "The 4,000 year global saga of the Jewish people illustrated in 121 maps." Owner's name in ink on endpaper.

Kylin Press, 1981. first edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Brown cloth, 128 pages, many photos, 23cm tall, octavo. A history of Aylesbury Vale in southern England, a companion volume to "Aylesbury Town Yesterdays." Gift inscription on rear endpaper, dust jacket is lightly sunned at spine panel. Very good in a very good jacket.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 472p, 24cm tall, octavo.

Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1977. Softcover in good condition. Glossy covers with photo portrait on front, 27 pages, many photos, 23cm tall, octavo, bibliography. This title shows that blacks were among the early settlers in Wisconsin, going back to the 1700's. Covers show light handling creases. Clean and good binding.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2011. Softcover in fine condition. Many photographs, 216 pages, 9 in. tall, bibliography and index.

Beeding and Bramber Local History Society, 1996. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. 68 p, maps and photos, 21cm tall, octavo. Clean and unworn.

Published by the author, 1976?. Softcover. Very Good. White, illustrated wraps, 43 pages, 11-in tall. Many photographs of Knoxville people and buildings. An unworn copy with just a bit of soil to the front wrap.

Sydney, Nova Scotia: University College Of Cape Breton Press, 1986. second printing. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. ix and 261 pages, maps and photos, 23cm tall, octavo. Ten essays concerning Cape Breton Island on the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. Minor rubbing on rear cover, otherwise a fine copy.

Richland Center, WI: Richland County Publishers, 1978. Soft Cover. Very Good. pp 202, many photos and portraits, 26cm tall, quarto. Bound in blue printed covers, blue plastic comb binding. Light soil to covers.

Wayne State University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Gray cloth, 282 pages, 9-in tall, bibliography and index, many photographs. A history of the U. S. Lake Survey District, which was part of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and was charged with surveying and charting the Great Lakes. A title in the Great Lakes Books Series.

Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston & G. W. Bacon, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Green cloth with white title and illustration of Mackintosh tartan on front, 32 pages, 19cm tall, 12mo. Published in the W. & A. K. Johnston's Clan Histories series. A history of Clan Mackintosh of northeast Scotland. Covers show a trifle of wear at corners.

Philadelphia: Office of the Indian Rights Association, 1888. Softcover in fair condition. Yellow covers, 114 pages, 22 cm tall, octavo, index. The author, an agent of the Indian Rights Association, wrote this report about his 1887 trip to mission Indians of southern California and to the tribes in the western portion of the Indian Territory(Oklahoma). As requested by President Cleveland and the Secretary of the Interior, Painter included in his report the condition of Indian schools at his several stops. Also as requested, Painter wrote about the advisability of removing some of the tribes in Indian Territory to open their lands to white settlement: "unjust, cruel, disastrous." (page 12) The 1888 publication of this report was soon followed by the first Oklahoma land run in 1889. Fragile front and rear covers are 3/4 detached from the spine. Three small tape mends to the spine reinforce the covers. Light soil to the covers. Internally very good.

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001, first printing. Hardcover in fine condition, no dust jacket. Bibliography and index, xlv and 346 pages, 26 cm tall, quarto.