Don Thomas's writing is superb: full of humor, affection, knowledge, and brilliant descriptive passages. Consider the following, from a chapter on hunting sharptail grouse: One minute I am alone with the dog and the silence, and then a roll of thunder rises from the grass, all wingbeats and the rich, throaty chuckle that fixes the sharptail's identity at once for the experienced prairie gunner.Fool Hen Blues is, in the end, a warm tribute to Labs, which Thomas loves for their enthusiasm, tolerance, marking ability, and ...
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Don Thomas's writing is superb: full of humor, affection, knowledge, and brilliant descriptive passages. Consider the following, from a chapter on hunting sharptail grouse: One minute I am alone with the dog and the silence, and then a roll of thunder rises from the grass, all wingbeats and the rich, throaty chuckle that fixes the sharptail's identity at once for the experienced prairie gunner.Fool Hen Blues is, in the end, a warm tribute to Labs, which Thomas loves for their enthusiasm, tolerance, marking ability, and courage in heavy cover.
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Add this copy of Fool Hen Blues: Retrievers & Shotguns and the American to cart. $22.00, very good condition, Sold by Browsers' Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Albany, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Countrysport Press.
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Very good jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed and dated by the author on the page after the ffep. A nice copy. Clean text, solid binding. First printing. Corners are slightly bumped, thus DJ corners are a little wrinkled.
Add this copy of Fool Hen Blues: Retrievers & Shotguns, and the Birds of to cart. $25.99, very good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Wilderness Adventures Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. BA3-A first printing hardcover book SIGNED and dated by author on the page after the front free endpaper in very good condition in very good dust jacket Dust jacket has some wrinkling on the edges and corners, scattered light scratches and rubbing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some light discoloration and shelf waer. Illustrated by Christopher Smith. 9.25"x6.25", 185 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In Fool Hen Blues, Don Thomas turns the sharp wit and keen insight that readers enjoyed in Whitefish Can't Jump and Longbows in the Far North on the art of wingshooting. His stories takes us from the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska to the high plains of central Montana. Join Don as he hunts ducks on a spring creek in the dead of winter, chases blues in the fall, and stalks a sharptail lek with a camera in the spring. Throughout, Don's passion for Labs is apparent as he makes his argument for using them as versatile retrievers. He admits they're not as classy as pointers, but says, "When you have watched your dog outwit a particularly wily rooster in a way made possible only by years of teamwork in the field, the retrieve and the weight of the bird in your hand and the taste of the pheasant dinner that follows can become their own measures of style." Fool Hen Blues is much more than a collection of outdoor stories. Don Thomas uses his hunting experiences as points of reference for the passage of time in his life. "The Last September" is a coming of age story about his final hunt with a friend who is destined to die in Vietnam. In "Early Birds, " a father enjoys an opening day sharptail hunt with his adolescent son, who will grow up soon: "I can number the opening days that remain before Nick goes off to college on the fingers of one hand, and we will not have to shoot boxes of shells or limits of birds in order to make each one count." "Asking a Friend" is a story about passion-the kind of passion that drives a Lab to cross a lake on thin ice to retrieve a winged goose because he was asked, and because it is what he was born to do. In these stories, hunting and the land comprise the framework for the larger picture of life's experiences. "That may finally be what the best of the outdoors has to offer us-a means of reckoning with the rest."
Add this copy of Fool Hen Blues: Retrievers and Shotguns and the to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Eastburn Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Albany, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Wilderness Adventures Pr.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) VG hardcover in VG jacket. 1995. SIGNED by AUTHOR on half title page w/no inscription. Pages all clean. Illustrated. LIght scuffs/edge wear. Binding solid. Jacket unclipped and clean. LIghtest edge wear. "Fool Hen Blues is much more than a collection of outdoor stories. Thomas uses his hunting experience as points of reference for the passage of time in his life..."
Add this copy of Fool Hen Blues: Retrievers & Shotguns and the American to cart. $37.00, like new condition, Sold by Old Scrolls Book Shop rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Stanley, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Wilderness Adventures Press.
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Christopher Smith, Illustrator. Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Clean hardcover first edition, first printing, SIGNED by the author, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige cloth boards with pheasant-rifle-fish decoration on cover, black lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean dark blue endpapers. Signed by the author on blank fly leaf: "To Bill-Good Hunting! -Don Thomas." Wonderful illustrations by Christopher Smith. 185 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Stories on the art of wingshooting takes the reader from the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska to the high plains of central Montana. Throughout, Don's passion for Labs is apparent as he makes his argument for using them as versatile retrievers.
Add this copy of Fool Hen Blues: Retrievers & Shotguns and the American to cart. $42.68, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Countrysport Press.
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Christopher Smith. Fine. DJ Fine. Large Octavo. Signed by Author From Gray's Sporting Journal review: Thomas is as convincing and entertaining a writer with his Parker DHE in hand as he is with a longbow. His talent for apt, evocative description of terrain and game carries over easily into his passionate, understated pursuit of blue grouse, sharptails, ptarmigan, ringnecks, Huns, chukar, sage hens, and his share of ducks and geese. Signed by author, with date, on second ffep.
Add this copy of Fool Hen Blues: Retrievers & Shotguns and the American to cart. $74.67, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Countrysport Press.
