Authors beginning with D from Augustine Funnell Books (90 items)

Toronto: Copp Clark Publishing Company SCL2, 1969. Book. Illus. by Alan K. Daniel (cover illustration). Near Fine. Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A title from the publisher's 'Studies in Canadian Literature' series. 130 pages (including notes, bibliography). Light general wear; internally tight and clean..

London: Hodder & Stoughton / H&S, 1950. Book. Illus. by Aileen Forbes-Boyd. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gus Gooseyplum and his pals get into a little trouble when they impersonate a group of minstrels at a seaside resort. Racism was still alive and well in children's books of the 1950s, as evidenced by the opening paragraph of the third section of this little tome: "'Quite the best thing about this holiday,' said Mrs. Gooseyplum, roosting her tailfeathers into the soft sand, ' is the end of those n*gger minstrels. I never liked them. Noise, twanging -- tiresome.'" Blue cloth w/gilt illustration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated end papers, 79 pages. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, fading to cloth around cover edges and spine, gift inscription to previous owner, a little internal smudging..

London: Heinemann, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Originally published in 1961. For each of eight poets (Donne, Herbert, Carew, Crashaw, Vaughan, King, Marvell and Cowley), "there is a representative selection of his poems, a biographical sketch and a general critical account of his work, followed by notes of the poems themselves." Blue cloth, 184 pages (including index of first lines), frontispiece. Sunned top edge, gently bumped spine ends, previous owner's name along bottom edge of front end paper, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/short edge tears, slightly sunned spine..

Fredericton: Fredericton Heritage Trust, 1991. Brochure. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A pocket-sized pamphlet/guide book (23 cm. x 10 cm.) presenting the brief history of a 19th-century New Brunswick mill town. 32 pages (including covers), illustrated w/photographs of the community's significant buildings w/descriptions of same, maps. Light cover soil, impressions, moderate handling wear..

New York: Bantam 811, 1950. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st Bantam edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A guy throws a party in order to let his wealthy aunt meet her stepchildren. Then women start getting themselves murdered (pretty inconsiderate of them, but whaddaya gonna do?), and Henry Gamadge's brief vacation from detecting comes to an end. 182 pages. Rubbing, handling creases, some spine slant/roll, impressions/scratches, light chipping to spine ends, light soil, tanning..

San Francisco & Chicago: Black Oyster Press, 1984. Book. Illus. by Ann Wettrich. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One of 500 copies of a collection of poetry from a press "committed to publishing works by women." Cover illustration by Peggeth Loeb. Unpaginated. Some corner wear, sticker shadow to back cover, two tiny/faint soil marks to back cover, crinkling to bottom corner, price impressions to top right corner of first end paper, mild general wear..

New York: Standard Magazines, 1953. Magazine. Illus. by Jack Coggins (cover illustration), Virgil Finlay, Ed Emsh (interior art). About Good. Magazine. Small quarto. Contains two short novels ('Turncoat' by Damon Knight, and 'The Diploids' by Katherine MacLean), a novelette ("Mother") by Philip Jose Farmer, four short stories ("Trouble at the Training Table" by Lee Priestley, "Robert" by Evan Hunter, "Delirium on Deneb" by Rolf Martel, and "Oasis" by Ralf Sloan), plus two feature articles. MacLean's story features two illustrations by the incomparable Virgil Finlay (which automatically justifies the cost, whether of this magazine or any other). 146 pages, illustrated. Cocked w/the usual edgewear/short tears common to the pulp magazine breed, three crosscracks, some chipping to spine ends, some internal soil, tanning. Internally tight..

Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2002. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. The second mystery featuring Staff Sergeant Dan Laurenson. 231 pages. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue: Shoreline, 2005. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A piece of creative non-fiction in which Dathan writes with fondness and passion about her place of birth during the time her father was employed in a Canadian bauxite mining camp, and her mother made the best she could of it "in what she always later called 'That Awful Place'". Inscribed on half-title, "To Mary, who quilts with cloth/while I quilt with words and/is my very best listener." 220 pages (including acknowledgements, published sources, and brief author biography), illustrated. Internally tight and clean w/moderate general wear..

Dolphin C314, 1962. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A guidebook intended to "take you to see practically everything worth seeing and show you where you can do practically everything worth doing" in Paris. 399 pages (including index), illustrated with maps and photographs. Gentle vertical crease to front cover, some sunning to spine, moderate edgewear..

Montreal: Self-Published, 1947. Book. Good. Stapled Wraps . 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author notes that Ukraine "has, time and again, proved to be a bulwark of western civilization, holding off the Tartar hordes from further invasion of Western Europe." Most of the contents were "contained in an address delivered by the writer, before the McGill University Historical Club on November 30, 1944." This copy comes with a signed note from the author laid in, addressed to Senator C.M. (Cairine Mackay) Wilson, the first woman to be appointed to the Canadian Senate. Note handwritten on a sheet of plain paper, folded once. 23 pages. Strongly sunned edges, scraped spine, 1" tears to top and bottom of same, light edgewear..

Bay du Nord: Self-Published, 2004. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Poetry from a born-and-bred Newfoundlander, reflecting life both before and after Canada swallowed 'em up 1949. 204 pages (including epilogue, afterword, glossary), illustrated. Internally tight and clean w/minor surface wear..

Vancouver: Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 2004. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. Small quarto. A catalogue published "to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia from June 22, 2004, to January 30, 2005, and touring from 2005 to 2007." Foreword by Michael M. Ames, with essays by Karen Duffek and Robert Houle. 64 pages (including notes, list of works in the exhibition, and artist biography). Some scuffing, scratches/impressions, light edgewear..

London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1986. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Originally published in 1982 by Abelard-Schuman, and one of a series of titles to feature a bad little girl with few, if any, redeeming qualities. Front panel photograph shows Charlotte Coleman as Marmalade Atkins, with rear panel photograph showing Coleman/Atkins sandwiched between "Dudley Sutton as Colonel Perry and Dicken Ashworth as Captain Conch in the Thames TV Theatre Box Production" of this title. Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 87 pages (+ advertisements for other Blackie titles). Moderate general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions/scratches, some edgewear. Dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve..

New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1846. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Davies (1798-1876) was a professor of mathematics at USMC, at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and at the University of New York before eventually becoming professor of higher mathematics at Columbia College, New York. He wrote and re-wrote more than 20 books on mathematics and related subjects (maybe if I had ever read one of them I would know what a quadrilateral equation was -- but probably not, since merely hearing the term "planar convex quadrilateral" makes me break out in hives, and just reading the question "In the prolate spheroid ACBD, the transverse axis AB = 90, and the revolving axis CD = 70 feet: what is the solidity?" makes me comatose). Leather over boards, black leather spine label w/gilt lettering/rule, 240 pages, illustrated with figures. Edgewear, scraped/worn corners/spine ends, cover soil, much previous owner's… Read more

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1952. Ex-Library. Illus. by Grant MacDonald. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author's "first foray into the field of the masque." Tan cloth, 47 pages. An ex-New Brunswick Legislative Library copy w/discard stamp, and the usual librarian tortures suffered by innocent books..

Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1950. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First paperback edition issued simultaneously with the hardcover. 91 pages. Edgewear, light chipping to corners/spine ends, in dust jacket w/edgewear, chipping to corners/spine ends, several edge tears, rubbing, scratches, some scrapes..

Don Mills: Thorn Press / Thorn Marketing Magazine. Very Good. Wraps. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Two issues of a short-lived mid-70s martial arts magazine that has become increasingly more difficult to find. Each contains articles and commentaries, w/numerous photographs. The 1974 issue contains a poster (approximately 22" x 17") tipped in at rear. 32 and 52 pages, respectively. Light/small staining to bottom of pages 5 and 6, light handling wear. Uncommon..

Derby: Monarch Books 236, 1962. Book. Illus. by Bob Stanley (cover illustration). Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. "A savagely realistic novel of treachery and torture in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp." 143 pages + one-page advertisement for another Monarch title. Since I have no idea what constitutes "acceptable" condition (to whom, for godssake -- the seller trying to convince you to buy something?), I'll try to describe the flaws so that an informed decision may be made: small scrape to front cover, reading crease to left edge of front cover, edge/corner wear, crease to first end paper/title page, light tanning, handling wear. All in all, no better than good, I'm afraid..

Garden City: Doubleday Crime Club, 1942. Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An unemployed man who answers a letter from a stranger finds himself a central player in a mysterious series of events. Bumped/softened/worn corners, moderate wear to spine ends, tanned/dusty edges, previous owner's name on front free end paper, small abrasion to front pastedown where (apparent) sticker removal took some finish with it (covered by dust jacket flap). Dust jacket w/longish tears to spine edges, tears/chipping to corners, strip torn off top spine, slight sunning to spine, smudging to rear panel, general wear. Dust jacket now nicely ensconced in a protective mylar sleeve, which spruces it up nicely..