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

London: Collins & Sons, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2, 128 pgs, color photos and illustrations. Natural history of Britain's grassland and scrub.

Alamogordo, NM: Published/Printed by the author, 2013. Paperback. New. 6 x 9, 320 pgs. A family history of true facts embellished with customs and habits from the 1800s. Highlighting the author's great grandmother, Lucy Jackson, born in 1863 and her daughter-in-law, Lydia Williams, born in 1894. Murder and mayhem sneaks it's way into their lives yet they survive. The story follows these two women into the early 1930's when things seem to simmer down and the future looks brighter.

New York: Lyons & Burford, 1995. Hardcover. Fair in Fair DJ. 5 x 7 1/2, 131 pgs, b&w watercolor art by Anton Stetzko. Chronicles a woman's evolution from reluctant student to passionate angler and her adoption of this traditionally male sport as her own. Twelve essays of fishing and life. Damp stain and wrinkling on bottom edge.

Great Britain: Bird's Farm Books, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 7 1/2 x 10, 240 pgs, color photos throughout, index. The author posits that hunting with hounds is a good and noble activity, which benefits both the prey and the rest of nature. Signed by the author.

New York: Vintage Books, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 5 x 8, 531 pgs. The latest 'bitch's brew' of essays: audacious, transgressor-spirited, fearlessly provocative in a cant-free common sense. Herein, her seemingly omniscient commentary ranges over the Bill and Hillary show to NYC's downtown drag queen, Glennda Orgasm, from Frankenstein to Lauren Hutton and Howard Stern.

New York: Vintage Books, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 5 x 8, 338 pgs. "A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America."

Las Vegas, NV: Nevada Publications, 1973. Second printing. Paperback. Good+. 9 x 12, 48 pgs, b&w photos, maps. Lists, describes and pictures 34 ghost towns in the area of Death Valley in California; plus stories of prospectors, emigrants & mineral discoveries; and a section of hints for desert travel.

New York: Newsweek, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 9 x 11, 172 pgs, color art reproductions throughout. The art treasures of Spain, amassed for their palaces by the Spanish kings, are now housed in the "perfect" museum, Prado.

Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California, 1989. Paperback. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 82 pgs, b&w photos and maps. This guidebook focuses on the 267-mile stretch of SR 49 between Mariposa and Sierraville as it was in 1990. Maps. The Mother Lode refers to a rich vein of gold stretching 120 miles from Bear Valley to Auburn. Contents include towns and personalities such as Amador City, Angels Camp, Bear Valley, John Sutter, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Carson Hill, Chinese Camp, El Dorado, Fiddletown, Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park, Nevada City, Rough and Ready, and more.

Northwest Illustrated, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 120 pgs, b&w and color photos and illustrations, glossary of geological terms. A chronicle of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.

Colorado Springs: Western Horseman, 2004. Later printing. Paperback. Good+. 8 x 11, 224 pgs, b&w photos throughout. The six keys to a natural horse-human relationship: Attitude, Knowledge, Tools, Techniques, Time and Imagination.

Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2011. Third edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 200 pgs, index, b&w photos. With over 30 carefully selected scenic drives, this book offers myriad ways to explore the Land of Enchantment. Pass through the foothills of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains, stop in the ghost town of Madrid, or gaze at the immense caves of Carlsbad Cavern.

Halifax, Canada: Nimbus Publishing, 1995. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 254 pgs, index, bibliography, endnotes. All about the eastern coyote, how it got there, it's impact on wildlife and how to deal with it.

Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8, 157 pgs, color photos and illustrations. Sensible, easy-to-follow recommendations about selecting and caring for a Shih Tzu.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960. Paperback. Good. 4 1/2 x 7, 354 pgs, index. Classic story of this indomitable explorer whose iron will and fierce pride led him both to triumph and to tragic death - struck down by the forces of intrigue and avarice he so fiercely scorned. Classic history of conquest and conflict in the New World.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9 1/2, 318 pgs, index, bibliography. Known for his fearlessness in both the political arena and the battlefield, Frank Blair is a Missouri legend. As a member of one of the most prominent and powerful political families in America during the nineteenth century, possibly the equivalent of the twentieth-century Kennedys, Frank was steeped in politics at an early age. The youngest son of Francis Preston Blair, editor of Andrew Jackson's Washington Globe and adviser to Presidents Andrew Jackson through Andrew Johnson, Frank Blair was greatly influenced by his father, who had high political expectations of him. Volatile and combative, Blair was either strongly admired or hated by the public figures of his day. He held adamantly to his opinions and fought hard for his political causes. He was an ardent supporter of Abraham Lincoln and championed the president's program in Congress and in… Read More

New York, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 321 pgs, b&w photos, mapped endsheets. In the dark years following the Civil War, America's foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of President Grant, Captain Hall and his crew boarded the 'Polaris', a steam schooner carefully refitted for its rigorous journey, and began their quest to be the first men to reach the North Pole. Neither the ship nor its captain would ever return. What transpired was tragic death and whispers of murder, as well as a horrifying ordeal through the heart of an Arctic winter, when men fought starvation, madness, and each other upon the ever-shifting ice.

Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications, 1989. Hardcover. Good. 5 1/2 x 8, 127 pgs, color photos throughout. Sensible, easy-to-follow recommendations about selecting and caring for hamsters.

Baldwin Park, CA: Gem Guides Book Co., 1992. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 176 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. From candlelight dinners to backyard barbecues, this easy-to-use collection has something for everyone. Whether you prefer traditional Southwestern flavors or a contemporary blend of old favorites, here's where you're sure to find a variety of crowd-pleasing dishes to satisfy the most fussy appetities.

British Columbia: Heritage House Publishing, 1998. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 96 pgs, b&w historical photos. Photos and a narrative of entertaining anecdotes about British Columbia's gold-rush era and the different trails that led inland to the mother lodes of the Cariboo.