Search Results: Authors starting with S from Sandhill Books

Arts Council of Great Britain, 1987. second edition. Softcover. Very Good. 125 pages, 10.5-in tall, bibliography, many photographs. Exhibition catalogue for the work of this Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influenced by modernism. Clean copy with minor corner crease to wrap, owner's name on endpaper.

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1990. Trade Paperback. Fine/no jacket. Susumu Saga illus. 258p, illustrations, 21cm tall, octavo. Equipped with a tape recorder, Saga tapped the memories of many elderly people in the small town of Tsuchiura, Japan. This title is a collection of their stories of small town life in the early 1900's.

Yokohama: Yamagata Printing Co., 1952. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. Two volumes, c1949 and c1952. Pages 258 and 255, many illustrations, 21cm tall, octavo. Attractive, decorative cloth over card covers, publisher's title label applied to front cover. Volume I includes religion, culture and popular culture, volume II Japanese psychology, tradition, customs and manners. Unworn covers show a trifling of soil, leaves are age toned.

Chicago: A. W. Shaw Company, 1919. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 192p, illustrations, 21cm tall, octavo.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1950?, c1948. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 252pp, 21cm tall, octavo. Tweed-like paper covered boards, publisher's top stain. Price-clipped

Mel Bay Publications, 1993. Softcover. Near Fine. 48 pages, 12-in tall. Collection of 23 celtic tunes from Sansone's award-winning album "Mist and Stone," arranged for a standard 12/11 hammered dulcimer. A clean copy with minor wear to cover.

Edizioni di Comunita, 1967. Softcover. Good. Text in English and Italian. 263 pages, 10.5-in tall, many photographs. Commentary on Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, including S. C. Johnson and Son Administration building, Marin County Civic Center, and Morris Gift Shop. Also Louis Kahn architecture, including Laboratory Towers, Bryn Mawr College, Salk Institute, and second capitol of Pakistan. Commentary on young American architects and problems of urban renewal planning and design. Covers with light soil and light edge wear.

Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, 2018. Softcover. Fine. Illustrated, stiff-card covers, 49 pages, 11-in tall.

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1953. Hardcover, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt title on spine, 120 pages, illustrations and frontispiece portrait, 23cm tall, octavo. The first part covers the history of the "News and Courier," a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper. Second part covers 9 prominent personalities that worked at the paper, including a reprint of a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial, "The Plight of the South." Ownership signature on endpaper, otherwise a clean and unworn copy. Dust jacket has light edge wear.

Archetype Publications in association with The British Museum, 2010. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. Glossy, pictorial covers, 101 pages, illustrations throughout, 29 cm tall, quarto. In this issue: a nineteenth-century Ethiopian church painting; residues on four fragmentary sixth-century BC vessels from Naukratis(Egypt); Achaemenid goldwork; Roman sculptural polychromy; Dark Age metalwork from the Carpathian Basin; an opus vermiculatum mosaic panel; the effects of alkaline desalination treatments for archaeological iron; colour holography of the oldest known work of art from Wales; old swords from Iran. Endpaper shows ghost of a pencilled price mark, otherwise a clean and unworn copy.

New York: Universe Publishing and Vendome Press, 1998. first edition. Hard Cover. Fine/fine. 79p, illustrations throughout, 22cm tall, octavo. Universe of Design series. Gray cloth with gilt title. Fine in a fine jacket.

Octopus Books, 1978, c1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 128p, illustrations, 32cm tall, folio. Fine in a fine jacket.

Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 207 pages, 10-in tall. This title explores the handwriting in the letters of 56 celebrated artists, including Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Maxfield Parrish, Grandma Moses Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Mandragora, 1999. Softcover. Very Good. Duilio Cambellotti illus. Illustrated wraps, 143 pages, 8.5-in tall, bibliography. Italian text. Half-title page with gift inscription and owner's blindstamp, otherwise clean and unworn.

New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1947. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. 151p, illustrations, 17cm tall, 16mo. Official Sports Library for Women. Front cover shows ownership signature discreetly inked at corner.

Haarlem, Netherlands: Becht, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 183p, illustrations, 28cm tall, quarto. Bilingual, English and Dutch. Fine in a fine jacket.

Evansville, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1939. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. 125pp, illustrations, 27cm tall, quarto. Volume 22 number 3. A Wisconsin pioneer in photography, Henry H. Bennett; a soldier of the Iron Brigade; social life in Wisconsin, pre-territorial to mid-sixties, with group portrait of Milwaukee (Cream City) baseball team 1860's; Abner Morse's diary of emigrant travel 1855-56, with fold out map. Covers have 3 small tears at edge.

Evansville, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1936. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. 121pp, illustrations, fold-out railroad map of Wisconsin, 27cm tall, quarto. Volume 19 number 4. The building of Wisconsin railroads; letters of Richard Emerson Ela; and more. Ela was a pioneer manufacturer in Wisconsin of plows, wagons, and other agricultural apparatus. Covers have short tears at edge.

Evansville, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1938. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. 124pp, illustrations, 27cm tall, quarto. Volume 22 number 1. Survey of 19 historic buildings in Wisconsin; Diary of George W. Stoner 1862; Sawdust Campaign of 1881. The Sawdust Campaign chronicles the life of a National Gurard infantryman sent to Eau Claire, Wisconsin to quiet the riots of striking lumber mill workers and rivermen, who were protesting 12-hour work days.

Southampton, New York: Parrish Art Museum, 2001. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. 113 pages, illustrations throughout, 20cm tall, 12mo. A collection of essays concerning the Impressionist paintings of William Merritt Chase, published in conjunction with an exhibition "About The Bayberry Bush" at the Parrish Art Museum.