Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1999. Second edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 288 pgs, over 100 b&w photos. Revised, expanded edition of the 1977 classic. "America's best and most complete representation of these ancient hounds of the hunt" -- Larry Mueller, Hound Dogs Editor, Outdoor Life. Signed and inscribed to... More about GAZEHOUNDS & COURSING.; The History, Art & Sport of Hunting with Sighthounds
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 288 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. The author's award-winning newspaper column is collected herein: hounds & hunting; double guns & bamboo rods; poaching; catfish; wild trout on the fly; homesteading; book reviews; rants & raves; etc. Inscribed and... More about COUNTRY SPORTS.; The Rabid Pursuits of a Redneck Environmentalist
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 220 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Based on a three-month, 10,000 mile angling idyll; reveals there is much to be learned from what is arguably the most popular gamefish within the most popular outdoor sport in the country. Inscribed and signed. More about THE CATFISH AS METAPHOR.; A Fisherman's American Journey
England: Swan Hill Press, 1998. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 256 pgs, b&w photos, new edition of 1978. An essential guide; defines the many confusion types of lurcher, explains their origins and how to acquire, train, breed and enter them into competition. More about THE NEW COMPLETE LURCHER
New York: Castle Books, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 201 pgs. Facsimile reproduction of Dobie's classic on the lore of the rattlesnake world. Black and gilt decoration on brown cloth. More about RATTLESNAKES
Phoenix: Southwest Natural History Assn. 1983. Paperback. 6 x 9, 147 pgs, bib, historical photos & maps. Collection of writings, annotated by the editors, of early-day adventurers who journeyed into the land of the Seri Indians, Sonora Mexico. Chapter on hunting Desert Bighorns and deer by Charles Sheldon. Pages slightly wrinkled. More about TALES FROM TIBURON.; Adventures in Seriland
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1942. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 228 pgs, illus/photos. A successful system of training pointing dogs, sporting spaniels, and non-slip retrievers. By the Editor of The American Field. More about HOW TO TRAIN HUNTING DOGS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 148 pgs, b&w illustrations. A beautiful account of the author's life with dogs, wolves and dingoes; loving yet absolutely unsentimental, based on hundred of thousands of hours of observation. More about THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DOGS
New York: Lyons Press, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 212 pgs, section of b&w photos. A journey through Scotland to find the right sheepdog where the Border Collies and the shepherds who raise them demonstrate how the relationship between man and animal can ennoble both. Unusual dog book! More about EMINENT DOGS DANGEROUS MEN.; Searching through Scottland for A Border Collie
New York: Doubleday, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 311 pgs, illus/photos & drawings. A comprehensive volume on the history, lore, training & hunting of 44 breeds, including all the bird dog breeds, plus trail & coursing hounds. Lots of good photos, too. More about HUNTING DOGS OF AMERICA
Leland, MD: Mississippi River Publishing, 1984. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 152 pgs, b&w illustrations. A novel based on the true story of "Miss One Dot", the 1979 Grand National Bird Dog Champion, and her relationship with her handler, "Mr. John Gardner" More about THE OLD MAN...AND THE DOG
England: The Boydell Press, 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. Originally published in 1977. 6 x 9 1/2, 178 pgs, index, biblio, lots of b&w photos. "Covers the subject so thoroughly that there can really be little more to say" about these coursing dog breeds. More about LURCHERS AND LONGDOGS
New York: Howell Book House, 1984. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 143 pgs, b&w illustrations and photos. Level by level, shows you how to instill the responsibility that will make your dog a sure tracker every time out, no matter the distraction. Clear, no-nonsense presentation. More about TRAINING TRACKING DOGS
Arvada, CO: Hoflin Publishing, 1976. Second printing. Hardcover. 5 x 8, 150 pgs, illus/b&w photos. The author was a rancher who chased coyotes & jackrabbits the old way, horseback with running dogs - Greyhound, staghound, Russian Wolfhound, coldbloods, etc. - on the Colorado Plains, 1920's. A must for coursing enthusiasts... More about CANINES & COYOTES
London: Popular Dogs Publishing Co., 1992. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 9, 258 pgs, index, b&w photos and illustrations. The Afghan Hound, Borzoi, Irish Wolfhound, Deerhound, Saluki & Whippet, their past and present, advice on care, breeding, whelping, grooming, training, etc. More about POPULAR SIGHT HOUNDS
New York: Lyons Press, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 325 pgs. Great story about a working border collie in Britain. More about NOP'S TRIALS
San Lorenzo, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1989. Paperback. 6 x 9, 250 pgs, illus/Fred Barraza. Novel of a modern day mountain man and houndman who is drawn into an illicit plot to stop an unsavory dam scheduled for the last wild river in New Mexico. Compelling narrative from barroom to bedroom... More about HOME IS THE RIVER
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1987. Third edition. Trade Paperback. 5 1/2 x 9 1/2, 212 pgs, b&w illustrations by Fred Barraza. A 200 mile wilderness journey down the Gila River of New Mexico and Arizona. The author was acompanied by a hound dog and a tom cat! Whitewater thrills, fishing & personal reflections. Signed. More about GILA DESCENDING.; A Southwestern Journey
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1998. First edition. Trade Paperback. 6 x 9, 160 pgs, b&w photos. The life and times of a small New Mexico bootheel town. More about ADIOS HACHITA
Roswell, NM: Old-Time Publications, 1989. First edition. Paperback. 5 x 8, 81 pgs, b&w historical photos. These stories were told on tape by Carl Hansen, of Tularosa, NM about his ancestors coming & settling in New Mexico, his cowboying days on the Mescalero Reservation & his years as sheriff of Otero County. More about HARROWING ADVENTURES OF AN OLD-TIME COWBOY AND SHERIFF
Roswell, NM: Old-Time Publications, 1986. First edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 280 pgs, index, many b&w historical photos. Many of the author's mother's memoirs of the family's homesteading years and life in and around Roswell, NM and up and down the Pecos & Hondo Valley in the 1920s... More about TALES AND TRAILS ALONG THE RIO
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1995. First edition. Paperback. High-Lonesome Books, Silver City, NM, 1995. 6 x 9, 214 pgs, illustrated. Caught between a lost culture & a modern time, a lover of rare books & ancient art believes he can turn progress on its head. Compelling narrative, reveals what's really happening out West. More about SIGNAL TO DEPART
Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1991. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 220 pgs, b&w illus. Essays in which the author reflects on the pursuits of game with hounds, mountain men, wilderness, urban blight & hunting ethics, mules, chewing tobacco, trotlines, bass & catfish, etc! Outdoor sport with a mainstream... More about TALES OF THE CHASE.; Hound-dogs, Catfish, and other Pursuits Afield
England: Swan Hill Press, 2006. Hardcover. 6 x 9 1/2, 164 pgs, b&w photos. All about the lurcher, working standards, the different quarry species and the traditional methods for catching them. More about THE WORKING LURCHER.; The Traditional Skills
Powys, Wales: Coch-y-Bonddu Books, 1997. Later printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 142 pgs, b&w photos. Plummer's reminiscences of his early life, his unsavoury friends and their unsavoury terriers and lurchers. Originally published in 1976. More about ROGUES AND RUNNING DOGS