Search Results: Titles starting with U from High-Lonesome Books

New York: Walter J. Black, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+. 5 x 8, 407 pgs. A nice reprint of Grey's thrilling story of the Old West. Still has protective wrapper.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1918. [H-T]. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 8, 407 pgs. Grey's thrilling story of the Old West. Previous owner's name on front fly.

Woodbury, NY: Platinum Press, Inc., 1991. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, pages unnumberes, over 200, b&w and color photos. A great guide for "toughing it" anyplace in the world.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9 1/2, 373 pgs, index, notes, b&w historical photos and illustrations. An insightful blend of biography and cultural history, the author traces Grant's shifting national and international reputation, illuminating the role of memory in our understanding of American history.

New York: Norton, 1958. Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 8, 285 pgs. The "ugly American" is Homer Atkins, a plain and plain-spoken man, who has been sent by the U.S. government to advise the Southeast Asian country of Sarkhan on engineering projects. When Atkins finds badly misplaced priorities and bluntly challenges the entrenched interests, he lays bare a foreign policy gone dangerously wrong. When published it became a runaway national bestseller for its slashing exposé of American arrogance, incompetence, and corruption in Southeast Asia. In linked stories and vignettes, the book uses gripping storytelling to draw a devastating picture of how the United States was losing the struggle with Communism in Asia.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 6 x 9, 247 pgs, index, b&w photos. Explains how to train a bird dog to hunt at a pace that suits a man walking, and to point and hold birds with all the elegance and style of a field trial champion.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2001. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 360 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Includes all of the important techniques: hunting from a tree stand or ground blind, stalking, driiving, reading wind direction, rattling and calling, and much more.

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: Howell Book House, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. 8 x 11 1/2, 260 pgs, color photos throughout. A wide-ranging and comprehensive book on the greyhound. Looks at greyhounds in art and literature; understanding, rearing and schooling the racing greyhound; adopting retired greyhounds; analysis of breed standards; and includes an extensive A to Z of common diseases and health problems.

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: Metro Books, 2002. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 9 x 11 1/2, 208 pgs, index, color photos and illustrations throughout. Cool spy history and a sort of catalog of all the keen stuff spies get to use: secret cameras, weapons, lockpicks.

Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9, 228 pgs, index, b&w photos. All you need to know about the guns, gear, and hunting tactics for deer and big game, upland birds, waterfowl, and small game.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4 1/2 x 7, 465 pgs, b&w historic photos and illustrations. An interesting biography of this trapper, freighter, rancher, stage-coach contractor, innkeeper, and all round capitalist in the west in the mid 19th century.

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 306 pgs, index. An insightful, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most powerful special-interest groups in Washington. Hard.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good+. 5 1/2 x 8, 316 pgs, b&w and color illustrations, decorated endsheets. 19th century young adult fiction.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1954. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+. 5 x 8, 281 pgs. A nice reprint of Grey's thrilling story of the Old West. Still has protective wrapper.

New York: Macmillan, 1928. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 8 1/2, 538 pgs, b&w historical photos. An old Southwest history book.

North Hollywood, CA: A Brandon House Book, 1965. 13th printing. Paperback. Good+. 4 1/2 x 7, 245 pgs, b&w illustrations. Originally published in the mid 1700s, the memoirs of a reformed women of the town describing the steps by which she was led into the paths of vice and infamy. In fancy cover protector.

San Diego, CA: Published/Printed by the author, 1937. Seventh Edition. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 112 pgs, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1931, for anyone who wants to learn or teach Indian sigh language. Front cover creased from top to bottom.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 282 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. A neat old history of this university. Includes several tipped in pamplets on the subject.