Social Science from Sandhill Books

Houghton Mifflin, 1994. first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Francesco Corni illus. 61 pages, 12-in tall. Umm El Madayan is a fictional city, but it's history, architectural growth, and cultural development echo the evolution of many Islamic cities on the coast of North Africa. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1997. Softcover. Near Fine. 99 pages, 12-in tall, bibliography. Text in Spanish, illustrated with 142 photographs of artifacts from 3 shaft tombs in Bolanos Canyon of western Mexico.

Garland Publishing, 1982. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Red cloth, 355 pages, 9-in tall. Published in the Modern American History series. Soil spot to the front cover, mild fading to the spine, owner's name on endpaper.

Five Colleges, 1992. Softcover. Good. 245 pages, 9-in tall. Two issues in 1 volume, numbers 9 and 10. Five essays about African American double consciousness, a reference to W. E. B. Du Bois' celebrated observance of two souls dwelling in one; 6 essays about the novels of Aminata Sow Fall, a Senegalese-born author; plus 4 more essays. Covers show a… Read more about this item

Peachtree, 2012. seventh printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 176 pages, 9.5-in tall, bibliography and index, many photographs. Author's signature on endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. Softcover. Fine. Glossy, pictorial wraps, 302 pages, 9-in tall, illustrated with 8 color plates. A study that focuses on 6 women who worked in the needle trades in and around Hadley, Massachusetts in the early Republic.

Arno Press, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/no jacket. Brown cloth, 648 pages, 9-in tall. Facsimile reprint of a 1914 study of boyhood and lawlessness, neglected girls, and working mothers in the middle west side tenement district of New York. This 1974 reprint was published in the Metropolitan America series. Illustrated with 71 photographs of people and street scenes, including a… Read more about this item

W. W. Norton and Company, 1964. first printing. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Red cloth, 128 pages, 8-in tall, many photographs. In words and pictures Smith, the author of "Strange Fruit," presents a "portrait of the fight for civil rights--told in the words and faces of Negroes and whites in the urban slums of the North, in Birmingham, in the… Read more about this item

BAS Press, 1986. Softcover. Near Fine. Shepardson, an anthropologist, studied the lives of the Navajo near Chinle in northeast Arizona. In this title the anthropologist shares personal insights and reflections concerning her work and the Navajo people. 57 pages, 8.5-in tall. Covers with just a touch of soil, else is fine.

University of Nebraska Press, 1990. Softcover. Fine/no jacket. This title follows the development of a young fictionalized member of the tribe through participation in the many rituals important to the Ojibway way of life, beginning with the Naming Ceremony. 188 pages, 9-in tall. Author's signature on title page. Three appendices are in Ojibway language. Reprint of a title… Read more about this item

New York: Anti - Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1965?. Softcover. Very Good. Covers with wrap-around photo of a Klan gathering, 40 pages, 10-in tall, many photographs. No date, circa 1965. Dore Schary, author of the preface, was chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. This report about Klan violence includes an 11-page partial chronology of violence and… Read more about this item

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Yellow cloth, 226 pages, 10-in tall, bibliography. Seven essays by various authors. Owner's signature on endpaper, otherwise clean and unworn.

Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, 1933. Softcover. Good. Gray wraps, pp 47-108, 10 plates, 9-in tall. Published as a Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, vol 16 no 2. Archaeological study of the Cyrus Thomas mound group in northern Wisconsin. Spine shows brown tone, neatly handwritten title on spine. Ownership signature on… Read more about this item

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966. Softcover. Very Good. Cover photo of a Tewa girl with puberty hair style and traditional dress, 104 pages, 9-in tall. Published in the Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology series. A clean copy with minor creases to cover.

Duke University Press, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Cloth, 152 pages, 9-in tall, bibliography and index. Includes an extensive bibliography of 1431 sources concerning the real gaucho of the Argentine and Uruguayan grasslands and the gaucho of romance. Spine shows brown tone, light surface wear to front cover. Dust jacket with soil and edge wear. Very good in good… Read more about this item

Northland Publishing, 1995, c1994. second printing. Softcover. Fine. Jerry Jacka illus. 136 paages, 9.5-in tall, glossary, bibliography, index. Many photographs and drawings.

New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1960?, no date. Softcover. Fine. George Moffett illus. Pictorial cover, 48 pages, 8.5-in tall, references, many photographs. At the time of publication Hill was the Labor Secretary for the NAACP, and Wilkins was the Executive Secretary. James 5:4 is quoted on first page: "Behold , the wages of… Read more about this item

New York: American Prison Association, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Green cloth, xiii and 333 pages, 9-in tall. Many articles covering prisoner education, employment, medical and psychiatric treatment, religion, and more. A touch of soil and wear to the covers.

New York: Octagon Books, 1971, c1921. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/no jacket. Red cloth, 362 pages, 9.5-in tall, bibliography. Originally published in 1921.

New York: British Information Services, 1949. Softcover. Near fine. 24 pages, 9-in tall, many photographs and maps. An account of a few development projects in colonial British Africa to advance African peoples in education, agriculture, economic and social welfare. A bit of soil to front wrap, else is fine.