Search Results: Authors starting with L from Sandhill Books

University of Chicago Press, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Dark gray cloth, 211 pages, 9-in tall, bibliography and index. Illustrated with 27 photographs. Illuminates the survival of Mayan civilization and their fusion with Christian elements in the native religion and ceremonies in a Guatemalan village. Light surface rubbing at extremities, owner's name on endpaper. Dust jacket with small paper loss at top of spine panel. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Mexico City: Juan Pablos, 1956. Softcover. Good/good. Yellow wraps, 77 pages, 10 in tall, glassine dust jacket.. A collection of poems in Spanish illustrated with 13 photo portraits of various people. The poet's personalized inscription in Spanish on first blank. Included is a facsimile of a 1948 letter in English sent to Labarthe from George Santayana, with comments about Labarthe's 1944 book of poetry "Reclinatorio: Acetre y Corazon." Labarthe moved from his native Puerto Rico to New York to study at Columbia University. Rear wrap with brown spots (foxing), leaves are age toned. Glassine dust jacket has some paper loss at bottom edge. Good in a good dust jacket.

Paris, no date (1958?). Very good/no jacket. unpaged, 17 leaves, b/w illustrations, portraits, 18cm tall 12mo. Soft bound in white covers, text in French. Program for 1958(?) performance of "L'Annee du Bac" in Paris at the Theatre Edouard VII. Front cover shows very light soil.

Metropolitan Press Publications, 1985. Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Soft bound in illustrated covers, 272 pp, 28 cm tall, quarto.

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. xvii, 508 p, many photos mostly portraits, 23cm tall, octavo. Wisconsin Land and Life series, Arnold Alanen series editor.

D. C. Everest Area Schools, 2002. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. xii, 730p, illustrations, portraits, 28cm tall, quarto, spiral bound. Oral histories of those who served in the Vietnam war and activists in Madison, Wisconsin who protested against the war. Karl Armstrong, Michael Cullen, Harold Dabler, Mark Piette, Marshall Shapiro, and Paul Soglin reflect back on the demonstrations in Madison and the Sterling Hall bombing. Also, Melvin Laird writes about his tenure as Nixon's Secretary of Defense 1969-1973. This oral history project was directed by students of the D. C. Everest Area Schools in Weston, Wisconsin.

No publisher, 1949. Softcover in very good condition. Portraits of Gene Autry on front and rear covers, a facsimile(?) of Autry's signature on front.18 pages, 28cm tall, quarto. Illustrated with photos of Gene, his wife, and horse at their Melody Ranch home. Seven articles about the performers in the Gene Autry Show and the Melody Ranch radio program. Covers have a short tear at the top of the spine, minor handling creases.

New York: Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau, 1947. Softcover. Good/no jacket. pp 149, 19cm tall, 12mo. Covers show minor soil, front cover has short tear at spine. Good binding and internally fine.

no publisher, 1972?. Paperback in very good condition. Gray illustrated covers, 10 pages, 20 cm tall, octavo. As the executor for Lane, MacBride found the first draft of this ghost story amongst her papers. Lane had told him and his wife the story several times. In MacBride's words: "It is true, and it is engrossing." Museum store label at corner of front cover, inside front cover has label for the Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society. A clean and unworn copy.

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. Softcover. Good/no jacket. pp x, 346, maps, 23cm tall, octavo. United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Bulletin 901. Six folded maps tipped-in, one folded map in pocket. Front cover shows vertical crease, ownership signature at corner.

Sauk County Historical Society, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Red cloth, 168 pages, 9 in tall. Illustrated with maps and many photographs.

Heritage Wisconsin Corporation, no date, 2010?. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 174 pages, 10.5-in tall. Inscribed by author. Includes family tree showing descendants of Henry Jacobus, born in Holland in 1760. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992, first printing. Hardcover in near fine condition, no dustjacket. Gray cloth, xxix and 577 pages, 24 cm tall, octavo, bibliography and index. Number 13 in the Bibliographies and Indexes in the Performing Arts series. This title lists the screen credits of more that 5,400 features, documents, shorts and serials released from the 1890s through 1930. Small soil spot to the fore edge, otherwise a clean and unworn copy.

Irish Academic Press, 2008. Hardcover in fine condition, very good dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt title on spine, x and 238 pages, 24cm tall, octavo, bibliography and index. Dust jacket has minor paper loss at corner of front panel.

Columbia, South Carolina: University Of South Carolina Press, 2009. first printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. x, 117p, illustrations, 26cm tall, quarto. "Photographic documentary of the lives of evangelical pastor Floyd Knowlin and his close-knit African American congregations who live, work, and worship in a rural stretch of coastal South Carolina.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967. Reprint. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. Facsimile reprint of 1867 edition, 104 pages, 8.5 in. tall, index.

Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2011. Softcover. As New/no jacket. xix, 516pp, illustrations, maps, 23cm tall, octavo.

Denver: Old West Publishing, 1962. Hardcover in fine condition in a fine dust jacket. Green cloth, xvi and 94 pages, 10 in. tall. Drawings by E. M. Schiwetz. A facsimile reprint of Latham's book published in 1871, which was the "first general appraisal of important segments of cow country." The text of the book first appeared in a series of letters in the Omaha Herald.

Madison, Wisconsin: Department of Natural Resources, 1992. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 214p, illustrations, 28cm tall, quarto. Technical Bulletin No. 181. Lake environment, fish species, and fishery perspectives. Front cover shows "WDNR547" discreetly inked at top corner.

Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1846. Softcover. Good/no jacket. 35pp, 24cm tall, octavo. Brown covers, black title on front. Three letters dated January and February 1846 concerning the development of Virginia's natural resources, a protective tariff proposed by the President, and the cotton industry in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Covers show moderate soil, dime-size dark soil spot at corner of rear cover. Spine has minor paper loss. Clean interior, good binding.