Books with author Albert Payson Terhune

Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson TerhuneCopyright 1919First Printing, April, 1919Second Printing, June, 1919Third Printing, July, 1919Fourth Printing, August, 1919Fifth Printing, August, 1919Sixth Printing, August, 1919Seventh Printing, August, 1919Eighth Printing, August, 1919Ninth Printing, August, 1919Tenth Printing, August, 1919Eleventh Printing, December, 1919Twelfth Printing, December, 1919Thirteenth Printing, December, 1919Fourteenth Printing, December, 1919Fifteenth Printing, December, 1919Sixteenth Printing, December, 1919Seventeenth Printing, December, 1919Eighteenth Printing, August, 1921Nineteenth Printing, March, 1922Twentieth Printing, August, 1922Twenty-first Printing, Sept., 1922Twenty-second Pr’ting, Feb., 1923Printed in the United States of America CONTENTSChapter 1. His MateChapter 2. “Quiet”Chapter 3. A Miracle of TwoChapter 4. His Little SonChapter 5. For a Bit of RibbonChapter 6. Lost!Chapter 7. The ThrowbackChapter 8. The Gold HatChapter 9. Speaking of UtilityChapter 10. The KillerChapter 11. WolfChapter 12. In the Day of Battle

Lad, A Dog is a 1919 novel written by Albert Payson Terhune, loosely based on the life of Terhune's real-life rough collie, Lad. Born in 1902, the real-life Lad was an unregistered collie of unknown lineage. Through Lad's adventures, Terhune expresses his views on parenting, obtaining perfect obedience without force, and the nature and rights of the "well-bred." It has sold more than one million copies and remains Terhune's best-selling work.

Three full length novels collected in one edition formatted for the Kindle. Linked Contents.About the AuthorALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE [1872-1942] was born in New Jersey. His father was a church minister and his mother wrote fiction and nonfiction books using the pen name Marion Harland. In 1893, he graduated from Columbia University. From 1894-1914, he was a journalist at the Evening World. From 1912, he lived at the family estate, Sunnybank, in Wayne, New Jersey. From 1896, he published in book form stories that he originally published in magazines like Redbook, Greenbook, AKC Gazette, and Ladies Home Journal. At Sunnybank, he bred collies. His first book inspired by his dogs was Lad: A Dog (1919), which was made into a film in 1962. His books were very well received. He wrote approxomately three-dozen books, novels and collected stories, about dogs. Today, his former home and breeding kennels are maintained as Terhune-Sunnybank Park.

A couple, referred to only as the Master and Mistress, purchase a pure-bred rough collie named Lad to be the guard dog of their home, the Place. Though they are surprised when they receive a puppy instead of an adult dog, they decide to keep him and he quickly shows himself to be very intelligent and easily trainable. At first, Lad views all people as friends, including a burglar who robs the house one night. When the man climbs out the window with a bag of loot, Lad thinks he is playing a game and snatches the bag in play. The thief chases Lad, then shoots him to get back the bag. Lad realizes the man is not friendly and turns to attack him, but the thief falls into a ditch, knocking himself unconscious. Afterward, Lad no longer trusts strangers so easily and has become a true watchdog.

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.

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.2Now 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.- Taken from "The Heart of a Dog" written by Albert Payson Terhune

In 1919, Albert Payson Terhune published a novel called "Lad," loosely based on the life of his real-life rough collie, Lad. Born in 1902, the real-life Lad was an unregistered collie of unknown lineage. Through Lad's adventures, Terhune expresses his views on parenting, obtaining perfect obedience without force, and the nature and rights of the "well-bred". It has sold more than one million copies and is Terhune's best-selling work (and the one that propelled him to fame). "Further Adventures of Lad" continues the collie's story, with more heartwarming adventures.

Originally published in 1920, this book tells the story of a lovable collie named Bruce and his adventures. The tale follows Bruce from his life as a puppy through his training as a courier dog and onto his service as a heroic war dog during the First World War.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. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography of the author.