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

Fairfax, VA: NRA Institute for Legislative Action, 2002. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 x 8 1/2, 32 pgs. Some of these fables, as many fables do, started out with a grain of truth, but were later misrepresented and twisted to serve a particular political purpose. It is vital that they be exposed as the fictions they are so that they might no longer influence the national debate.

New York: Sterling Publishing, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 10, 128 pgs, color photos throughout. All sorts of Christmas crafts using left over fabric scraps.

Santa Fe, NM: The Rydal Press, 1946. Second printing. Hardcover. Good+. 6 x 9, 339 pgs, b&w historic photos, mapped endsheets. A New Mexico classic: John S. Chisum, Pat Garrett, Thomas Catron, James Hagerman, Albert Bacon Fall, Albert Fountain, Oliver Lee, Charles Eddy, William Hawkins and more. Lots of history!

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 5 x 7 1/2, 193 pgs. The story of three generations of Cherokee women, as viewed by the youngest, Lucie, a woman who has been able to use education and her imagination to escape the confines of her rootless, impoverished upbringing. When her mother's illness summons her back to Oklahoma, Lucie finds herself confronted with the legacy of a childhood she has worked hard to separate from her adult self. Her mother, Gracie, and her maternal aunt, Auney, are members of the Cherokees' "lost generation," women who rejected the traditional rural ways in search of a more glamorous life as autonomous working women.

Spanish Fort, AL: Wingfeather Publishing, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. 6 x 9, 149 pgs. Signed by the author and includes a turkey feather. Classic turkey hunting stories from this notable turkey guru.

New York: Summit Books, 1981. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 464 pgs, index. A collection of the finest pieces Harold Schonberg wrote in more than two decades as senior music critic of The New York Times.

Marshall, MI: National Trappers Association, Inc., no date. Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 8 pgs. Trapping issues exposed as true or not.

New York: Harper Collins, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 6 x 9, 294 pgs. Another Jim Chee mystery replete with Hillerman trademarks - ingeniously intricate plotting, splendid evocations of the Southwest's harsh beauty, insights into a venerable culture, and subtly poignant characterizations.

London: Earthscan Publications, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 228 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w illustrations. Discusses world agricultural production and how both producers and consumers have been and will be affected by the way in which we produce our food.

Ontario, Canada: Pagurian Press Ltd., 1975. Hardcover. Very Good in Good+ DJ. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2, 189 pgs, b&w photos. A complete guide to camping in North America.

New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. Second edition. Paperback. Good. 6 x 9, 159 pgs, section of color photos. An extraordinary illustrated inquiry into the ways of America's most revered and most misunderstood bird.

New York: Random House, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 8 x 11, 64 pgs, b&w and color illustrations. A children's book, introduces the Indian wars, their great chiefs, and how the different tribes lived.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1928. Reprint. Hardcover. Good in Good DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 294 pgs. The story of the pioneers who moved with the frontier and made the laws as they went - Bat Masterson, Bill Hickok, Frank Leslie, Tom Horn, Pat Garrett, Bucky O'Neill, Billy Tilghman and others.

London: Faber and Faber, 2009. Paperback. Very Good+. 5 x 8, 288 pgs. Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace patrols the ruins of a dying city and tries to keep its unruly inhabitants in check. Into this isolated world comes evidence that life is flourishing elsewhere - a refugee from vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to take to road to reconnect with human society.

New York: Scribners, 1969. Later printing. Paperback. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 332 pgs. A copy of Hemingway's classic.

New York: Scribners, 1957. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. (1929), 6 x 9, 314 pgs. A copy of Hemingway's classic.

Philadelphia: Farm Journal, Inc., 1980. Book Club. Hardcover. Good+ in Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 120 pgs, index. Favorite family dishes thoroughly tested with results you can depend upon.

New York: Atheneum, 1976. First, thus. Paperback. Very Good. 5 x 8, 157 pgs, index, b&w historical photos, map. The author strives to revise mistaken notions about Puritan colonial New England.

U.S.: Promontory Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 308 pgs, index, section of b&w photos. Battle by battle, Custer's place during the Civil War.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Good+ in Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 241 pgs, index, section of b&w photos. Begins with the grand parade in Washington, D.C., celebrating the end of the Civil War. The author captures the towering personality of Custer following his headlong pursuit of glory and his vainglorious end at the Little Big Horn. Ex-library with the usual markings.