Books with author Albert Payson Terhune

This is the story of Gray Dawn, a collie who lived at Terhune's Sunnybank kennels and who likes to do things his own way. Initially believing Gray Dawn to be a hopeless case, the Master plans to sell the dog to another breeder despite his wife's protestations. But, after enacting a deed of great courage, Gray Dawn is spared at the last moment and wins the affection and respect of his master. A wonderfully heart-warming tale, this book will not disappoint fans of Terhune’s delightful fiction and constitutes a must-have for any dog-lover. Albert Payson Terhune (1872 – 1942) was an American journalist, author, dog breeder, most famous for his books detailing the adventures of a collie named Lad. This book was originally published 1927 and is republished here with a new prefatory biography of the author.

Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 – February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. He was popular for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies. Albert Payson Terhune was born in New Jersey to Mary Virginia Hawes and the Reverend Edward Payson Terhune. His mother, Mary Virginia Hawes, was a writer of household management books and pre-Civil War novels under the name Marion Harland. Terhune had four sisters and one brother, though only two of his sisters lived to be adults: Christine Terhune Herrick (1859–1944); and Virginia Terhune Van De Water (1865–1945).Sunnybank (41.0012°N 74.2755°W) was originally the family's summer home, with Terhune making it his permanent residence in 1912. He was educated at Columbia University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893. From 1894 to 1916, he worked as a reporter for The Evening World.He boxed exhibition matches with James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and James J. Jeffries.His Sunnybank Kennels where he bred and raised rough collies were "the most famed collie kennels in the U.S."Albert Payson Terhune first published short stories about his collie Lad, titled Lad Stories, in various general-interest magazines, including Red Book, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Hartford Courant, and the Atlantic Monthly. The first of his novels about his dogs, Lad: A Dog, collected a dozen stories of his collie Lad in novel form. Lad was followed by over 30 additional dog-focused novels, including two additional books about Lad. Published in 1919, the novel was a best seller in both the adult and young adult markets and has been reprinted over 80 times. It was adapted into a feature film in 1962. A man of his time, Terhune is now often criticized for his starkly racist depictions of the minorities, hill people and so-called "half-breeds" that peopled parts of northern New Jersey less idealized than Sunnybank. (Wikipedia)

This is the story of Gray Dawn, a collie who lived at Terhune's Sunnybank kennels and who likes to do things his own way. Initially believing Gray Dawn to be a hopeless case, the Master plans to sell the dog to another breeder despite his wife's protestations. But, after enacting a deed of great courage, Gray Dawn is spared at the last moment and wins the affection and respect of his master. A wonderfully heart-warming tale, this book will not disappoint fans of Terhune’s delightful fiction and constitutes a must-have for any dog-lover. Albert Payson Terhune (1872 – 1942) was an American journalist, author, dog breeder, most famous for his books detailing the adventures of a collie named Lad. This book was originally published 1927 and is republished here with a new prefatory biography of the author.

After the original collection of stories featuring his lovable collie Lad was met with astounding success, journalist and dog expert Albert Payson Terhune penned a second batch of canine-centric yarns to please his clamoring fans. As always, the proud and playful Lad is at the center of these stories, bringing his usual mix of adventure, action, and adorable hijinks.

The Way of a Dog - Being the Further Adventures of Gray Dawn and Some Others is a rare book written by the master of dog-based narrative, Albert Payson Terhune. The sequel to 'Gray Dawn', this book details the adventures of one of Terhune's most famous canine creations, eloquently written and enthused with the soul and passion fans of his work have come to expect. A beautiful addition to any dog-lovers collection, this book promises so make its reader howl with laughter and weep with sorrow as they follow the endearing misadventures of Grey Dawn – a must-read for any fan of Terhune’s work. Albert Payson Terhune was an American author, journalist, and dog breeder, most famous for his books detailing the adventures of his beloved collies. Originally published in 1932, this rare book has been chosen to republication because of its literary value and is proudly republished here with a new introductory biography of its author.

Terhune penned many books about the dogs he kept and trained on the Sunnybank estate throughout the 1920s and 30s.Wolf, is Terhune's classic story of the funny-looking purebred collie who was somewhat an outsider with a matching personality. Wolf the dog himself became famous posthumously when his heroic death was recorded in nearly every paper in America.This early work by Albert Payson Terhune was originally published in 1925, we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Originally published in 1922, this book tells the story of a young farmer and a friendship he develops with a collie he finds lying by the roadside with an broken leg. The young farmer has been living a life of drunkenness and his farm has been falling into a state of disrepair. However, the new found friendship gives him hope and he begins to clean up his act. Albert Payson Terhune was a master of the 'dog story' and produced many popular novels featuring collies. He was also a respected collie breeder himself.

Albert Payson Terhune (1872 – 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies. This volume collects 8 classic dog-stories, including "Buff: A Collie," "Something," "Chums," "Human-Interest Stuff," "One Minute Longer," "The Foul Fancier," "The Grudge," and "The Sunnybank Collies."

When the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., went into the wholesale raising of silver foxes for a world market, its two partners brought to the enterprise a comfortable working capital and an uncomfortable ignorance of the brain-reactions of a fox. They had visited the National Exhibition of silver foxes. They had spent days at successful fox farms, studying every detail of management and memorising the rigid diet-charts. They had committed to memory every fact and hint in Bulletin No. 1151 of the United States Department of Agriculture—issued for the help of novice breeders of silver foxes. They had mastered each and every available scrap of exact information concerning the physical welfare of captive silver foxes. But, for lack of half a lifetime’s close application to the theme, their knowledge of fox mentality and fox nature was nil. Now one may raise chickens or hogs or even cattle, without taking greatly into account the inner workings of such animals’ brains. But no man yet has made a success of raising foxes or their fifth cousin, the collie, without spending more time in studying out the mental than the physical beast. On the kitchen wall of the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., was the printed dietary of silver foxes. On the one library shelf of the kennel was all the available literature on silver fox breeding, from government pamphlets to a three-volume monograph. In the four-acre space within the kennel enclosure were thirty model runways, twenty by twenty feet; each equipped with a model shelter-house and ten of them further fitted out with model brood nests. In twenty-four of these thirty model runways abode twenty-four model silver foxes, one to each yard at this autumn season—twenty-four silver foxes, pedigreed and registered—foxes whose lump value was something more than $7,400. Thanks to the balanced rations and meticulous care lavished on them, all twenty-four were in the pink of form. All twenty-four seemed as nearly contented as can a wild thing which no longer has the zest of gambling with death for its daily food and which is stared at with indecent closeness and frequency by dread humans. But the partners of the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., failed to take note, among other things, of the uncanny genius certain foxes possess for sapping and mining; nor that some foxes are almost as deft at climbing as is a cinnamon bear. True, the average silver fox is neither a gifted burrower nor climber. But neither are such talents rare. For example, King Whitefoot II, in Number 8 run, could have given a mole useful hints in underground burrowing. Lady Pitchdark, the temperamental young vixen in Number 17 run, might wellnigh have qualified as the vulpine fly. Because neither of these costly specimens spent their time in sporadic demonstration of their arts, in the view of humans, those same humans did not suspect the accomplishments. Then came an ice-bright moonlit night in late November—a night to stir every quadruped’s blood to tingling life and to set humans to crouching over fireplaces. Ten minutes after Rance and Ethan Venner, the kennel partners, finished their perfunctory evening rounds of the yards, King Whitefoot II was blithely at work. Foxes and other burrowing beasts seek instinctively the corners or the edges of yards, when striving to dig a way out. Any student of their ways will tell you that. Wherefore, as in most fox-kennels, the corners and inner edges of the Stippled Silver yards were fringed with a half-yard of mesh-wire, laid flat on the ground. Whitefoot chose a spot six inches on the hither edge of a border-wire and began his tunnel. He did not waste strength by digging deep. He channelled a shallow tube, directly under the flat-laid wire. Indeed, the wire itself formed the top of his tunnel. The frost was not yet deep enough or hard enough to impede his work. Nor, luckily for him, did he have to circumnavigate any big underground rock.

This classic book details the misadventures of a collie named Lad, written by the master of dog-based literature, Albert Terhune. A sequel to Terhune’s famous book ‘Lad: A Dog’, in this book Lad befriends a raccoon named Ramsey, a fox named Aesop, and a monkey named Darwin. Filled with exciting tales of courage and loyalty in the face of danger, this rare book is a must-read for dog-lovers and collectors of Terhune’s beautiful work. Lad of Sunnybank was originally published in 1929 by Harper Collins and is proudly republished here with a new prefatory biography of the author. Albert Payson Terhune (1872 – 1942) was an American author, and journalist, and dog breeder, most famous for his heart-warming stories chronicling the misadventures of dogs.