Search Results: Authors starting with E from High-Lonesome Books

New York: Dutton, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 328 pgs, illustrated by Tom Beecham. Twenty-three stories of high adventure and narrow escape in the outdoors.

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9 1/2, 510 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, b&w photos. In the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spain--the start of what would become the Spanish Civil War. Despite U.S. laws banning participation in foreign conflicts, American volunteers began pouring into Barcelona in January 1937. The most famous of these anti-Franco groups was the band of 2,800 American fighters who called themselves the Abraham Lincoln Battalion.

Camden, ME: Yankee Publishing, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2, 400 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. A useful book filled with useful and relevant house, garden, and life tips.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 346 pgs, index, list of contributors. Profiles of American Indian men and women who played a significant role in the affairs of their communities and of the nation over the course of the twentieth century. Ex-library with minimal markings.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 253 pgs, index, bibliography, charts and photos. Offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of America's national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment.

Readex Microprint, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good+. 5 x 7 1/2, 184 pgs, fold-out map. Edward's account of the expedition of Colonel Doniphan from Santa Fe to Saltillo, Mexico, and down the Rio Grande to a port of embarkation for New Orleans.

New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 x 11, 239 pgs, color photos throughout. Essential guide for everyone who loves horses - from the pony-mad teenager to the professional breeder.

New York: Charter House, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 365 pgs. Explores virtually every aspect of food production from the farm to the table, and untangles the rhetoric that surrounds agricultural ecology, agribusiness, and the hob-goblin of tax-supported subsidies.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 8, 260 pgs, color illustrations. Covers the imperiled and extinct birds of the United States and Canada including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Lots of info.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 402 pgs, index, bibliography, notes. Sensitive exploration of a potentially disastrous national problem.

Huntington, NY: Portfolio Press Corporation, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. 9 x 12, 260 pgs, color photos and illustrations. This beautifully illustrated books brings out the full story of "M.I. Hummel" figurines for the first time. The author traces the artist's life.

Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. New. 6 x 9, 82 pgs, b&w photos. Man has created an imbalance in nature. It is now up to man to try to correct the imbalance by keeping the numbers of wild animals at a sustainable level. Ernest Eichwald is a retired teacher who came from a farming background and was taught respect for nature and how to use our natural resources wisely. He has learned that if man has created imbalance in nature, then it is up to man to correct it.

New York: Dodd Mead, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 271 pgs, b&w illustrations, mapped endsheets. The eternal face of the river from the ice of the north to the streaming bayou of the south.

New York: Scribner, 1971. Later printing. Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8, 240 pgs, b&w illustrations. "The meditative summation of the personal experiences of an anthropologist and sometime fossil hunter."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ. 10 x 13, 255 pgs, b&w and color photos and drawings. Nine essays, commissioned especially for this book by renowned outdoor writers like Ernest Schweibert, John Graves, Ted Williams, Vance Bourjaily, all about fishing. Beautiful coffee-table style book.

New York: Balance House, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 11 1/2 x 10 1/2, 172 pgs, color art reproductions. The Harrison Eiteljorg collection is a treasure hunt. The cream of this magnificent collection is an impressive collection of 20th century western art including several from members of the Taos Society of Artists, Remingtons, Russells, and later figures as well.

New York: Norton, 1985. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 5 1/2 x 8, 320 pgs, index. Interesting ideas and intriguing information about how we detect lies. The author used history, fiction and laboratory studies to shed light on some of our strongest impulses and most deeply human behavior. Contains a significant amount of underlining and highlighting.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 11 x 9, 112 pgs, color photos throughout by Scott Squire, foreword by Stephen Bodio. Explores the history and culture of Coyote coursing, or hunting with greyhounds (and other sight hounds) launched from specially made pickup rigs; chapters include Animal Folklore and Coyote Coursing, The Aesthetics of Survival, Loomis Trade-N-Days.

Camden, ME: International Marine Publishing Co., 1975. Hardcover. Good+ in Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 222 pgs, mapped endsheets. Adventurous and well-written, the authors' saga of yacht delivery from Halifax down the Atlantic to South America, and across the ocean to Europe; their ten year yacht delivery business.

New York: David McKay, 1979. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good- DJ. 7 x 10, 275 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos. A master woodsman gives you a lifetime of lore that will not only tell you how, where, when and what for turkey hunting, but will also entertain you.