Search Results: Titles starting with P from Sandhill Books

Philadelphia: Community Press, 1963. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. Many photographs of PCC railway cars, 71 pages, 11 in tall. An attempt to track down each Presidents Conference Committee Car built in the United States since the first experimental model and to present general characteristics of each general type of car constructed. Listings by state and country.

Published by the author, 1982. second printing. Softcover. Near Fine. 24 pages, 9-in tall, bibliography. "Dedicated to the countless Hmong women down through the ages who, like women everywhere, in war and in peace, have stitched their hopes, their sorrows, their love into pieces of fabric with needle and thread." Four pages of illustrations of Hmong needlework. An unworn copy with just a smidgeon of soil to rear cover.

University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995, c1989. Reprint. Softcover. Near fine. 529 pages, 9-in tall, index. Published in the Literature & Philosophy series. This title considers the challenges posed to poetry by modernist painting. Ghost of pencil notation on first blank page, else is fine.

Council For Cultural Planning and Development, Executive Yuan, R.O.C., 1985. Softcover. Good/no jacket. Red and yellow decorated covers with illustration on front, 123 pages, illustrations throughout, 33cm tall, folio. This title accompanies an exhibition in Taiwan, 67 color plates and 5 essays. Ownership signature on endpaper. A clean and very lightly worn copy, spine shows a small band of rubbing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. first edition. Hardback. Fine/fine. pp x, 370, illustrations, 23cm tall, octavo.

New York: Watson - Guptill Publications, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Bound in white cloth boards, 144 pp., 29 cm tall (quarto), first printing, illustrated. An instructional book that encourages painters to take risks. Fine in a fine jacket.

Gainesville, FL: University Press Of Florida, 2000, c1996. second printing. Trade Paperback. Fine/no jacket. 251p, illustrations, 23cm tall, octavo.

University of Wisconsin News Service, 1949. Softcover in fair condition. Front and rear covers are a wrap around photograph of the crowd that had gathered at the University of Wisconsin Union Terrace to hear Prime Minister Nehru's talk. Illustrated with portraits, 27 pages, 23 cm tall, octavo. A booklet documenting the visit of Indian Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandi at the University of Wisconsin November 4, 1949. It includes an edited transcript of Nehru's speech. Ink stamp for a noncirculating legislative reference library on front cover and title page. Front cover has a nickel-size library code sticker, and a 2in. white spot where the surface image has rubbed off. Rear cover shows an edge tear with interior tape mend. Internally very good and very good binding

Published by the author, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 135p, illustrations, 22cm tall, octavo. Life on the Schumacher Farm near Waunakee, Wisconsin in the early 1900's. The farm is now the Schumacher Farm County Park in Dane County. Front cover has short and fine blue line. Small gift inscription on title page.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. first printing. Hardcover in near fine condition in good dust jacket. Red cloth, 224 pages, 9 in. tall, bibliography and index. History of electoral socialism from 1890 to the present in 7 European countries. Ownership signature on endpaper. Clean dust jacket has 2 in. tear on the rear panel.

Indian Studies Past and Present, 1969. Hardcover. Good/fair. Yellow paper over boards, xxiv and 136 pages, 9.5-in tall, bibliography and index, frontispiece portrait. Second title in the Soviet Indology Series. Contains 5 papers: A Buddhist philosopher on monotheism; history of Indian materialism; theory of poetry in India; scientific achievements of ancient India; establishment of the existence of other minds. Stcherbatsky died in 1942 and his epitaph in English reads: "He explained to his country the wisdom of the ancient Indian thinkers." Covers with light soil and edge wear. A clean dust jacket shows paper loss and tape mends at head and tail of spine panel. Good in a fair dust jacket.

Terre Haute, Indiana: Indiana State University, 1982. first printing. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. pp 93, 23cm tall, octavo. A collection of seven papers that were presented at the first meeting of the Dictionary Society in 1977.

Parade Publications, 2008. Softcover. Fine. Cover photo of Marilyn Monroe in 2-piece swim suit, 19 pages, 10.5-in tall. Includes 2-page article by Liz Smith: "The Marilyn You Don't Know.

Paris: A. Leconte, no date, 1925?. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 198p, 16cm tall, 16mo. Brown, paper covered boards, cloth spine, gilt title on front. A vintage guide book of Paris and suburbs with French text. Double-sided, fold-out map of Paris and suburbs tipped-in, map is 21x28in unfolded. Boards show rubbing at edges, top of spine has small tears. Map has a closed 2" tear. Clean and good binding.

Mainz: B. Schott's Sohne, 1950. Softcover in very good condition. 31 pages, 15cm tall, 16mo. This copy is the first of 2 volumes, the foreword by Giesbert is in German. Music for 28 dances, including gaillards, pavanes, and basse dances. This early music for recorders was originally published in 1529 and 1530 by Pierre Attaingnant. Unobtrusive corner crease to front cover, otherwise a fine copy.

London: B. T. Batsford, 1966. first edition. Hardcover in fine condition, lacking dust jacket. Gray cloth, xii and 312 pages, 10 in tall, bibliography, index of churches and index of architects, builders, craftsmen, and artists. One section provides a few notes about many of the church architects. Illustrated with 200 photographs of many London parish churches.

Rock Island, IL: East Hall Press and Augustana College Library, 1988. Softcover. Very good. vi, 86 p, 23cm tall. Augustana College Library Occassional Paper No. 18. Thirteen essays and poems contributed by Fritiof Fryxell, Ann Boaden, Thomas Tredway and other Augustana professors and alumni. Front cover shows slight rubbing, otherwise a fine unworn copy.

Los Angeles: E. J. Rose, 1940. Softcover. Very Good/no jacket. 16 b/w photos of parade floats in publisher's 5x6, green and red mailing envelope. The photos unfold accordion-like, and are attached to the envelope by two publisher's staples. The first photo is of Charlie McCarthy, who was the Grand Marshal of the parade. A clean copy showing a trifle of wear on the envelope, one rusty staple. Postal used.

no publisher, 1995. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. unpaged, 66 leaves, illustrations, portraits, 28cm tall, quarto.

Mount Kisco, NY: Seven Springs Center, 1981. Fine. 50 pages, 9-in tall. In 1981 a delegation of 4 from the Seven Springs Center went to the Middle East in the search for a negotiated peace.