Trying to find an old book maybe from the 70s with huge telepathic dogs in the story line

Question

The protagonist was born on another planet where he grew up fighting for survival. The cover pictured the dogs at shoulder high to a man and looking like a St. Bernard. It might have been a Science Fiction Book Club edition.

Answer 1

This is probably The Book of Skaith: The Adventures of Eric John Stark by Leigh Brackett. It was a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club for Fall 1976 with this cover by Don Maitz.

This is an omnibus of three novels all set on the planet Skaith: The Ginger Star, The Hounds of Skaith, and The Reavers of Skaith. Eric John Stark is the main character of each novel.

Stark was raised by non-human savages on Mercury, where he developed an extremely strong will to survive in an extremely challenging environment.

Also on Skaith are the Hellhounds, large beasts taller than a man, who are capable of telepathically projecting overwhelming fear onto intruders.