Titles beginning with A from Augustine Funnell Books (179 items)

New York: A.A. Grapevine / Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Book. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is the 1982-83 edition, "reflecting actions of the 1982 General Service Conference." 116 + 74 pages, Internally tight w/moderately sunned spine/cover edges, previous owner's name magic-markered out on half-title (bleeds through to title page), some light damp-staining, light surface wear..

Fredericton: Fredericton Historical Research Project, 1983. Book. Fine. Spiral Bound Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The title and sub-title pretty much cover this one. 31 numbered pages of text (including footnotes), each followed by a blank, plus one-page listing of notes on sources, plus four-page bibliography..

Fredericton: Fredericton Historical Research Project, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Plastic ring stiff-card wraps. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A report that "draws together the pertinent data from a selection of secondary sources concerning the Loyalist landing and settlement of the area." 17 numbered pages of text (including footnotes, bibliography), each followed by a blank, plus one-page of acknowledgements. Light general wear..

Dartmouth: Marshland, 2002. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "A Liverpool orphan's fight for survival -- memories -- experiences -- 1930s." 165 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear..

Uigg: Abby Press Book. Illus. by Vanessa A. Raven (back cover illustration). About Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. No date (1996). Boudreault took 14 years to write this novel, which tells the story of the beginnings of Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island, of "the Jolliets and Arsenaults, the first Acadians on its shores, and of the Mi'Kmaq people. And it is about the MacLachlans and McCallums and MacKays, and especially of the Stewarts and others who sweated for its salty bays and red soil." 497 pages (plus afterword, maps, brief author biography, Island chronology). Mildly cocked, a bit of rubbing, edgewear, two thinly creased corners, author's name/address stamp to inside back cover. Internally tight and clean..

Aberdare: Cynon Valley History Society, 1992. Book. Illus. by Mansel Jones (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A companion publication to 1986's Volume One, of which there were only 3000 copies printed, all of which were snapped up pretty quickly. This volume contains "nearly 200 photographs of local industrial, sporting, social and commercial scenes among others, together with a good selection of rail and road transport." An intriguing pictorial recored. Pictorial boards, unpaginated, colour frontispiece, corrigenda to Volume One, index of plates..

Memphis: Jarodoce Publications, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by band members. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of a Gospel group that has sold more than 50,000,000 copies of 200+ albums, winning a boatload of awards and receiving considerable recognition in the process. This copy signed on front free end paper by Bundy Brewster (the band's "professional driver"), Dave Weston (piano, 1966-68), James Blackwood (lead singer), and London Parris (more accurately, perhaps, Conley "London" Parris, bass); and on reverse of front free end paper by Cecil Blackwood (baritone). Souvenir and gift page unused. Bright orange cloth w/black cover lettering, 191 pages, illustrated. Spine a bit cocked, light general wear, in dust jacket w/light wear to corners/spine ends, 3/8" tear to left edge of front panel, two shorter tears to edges of rear panel..

Halifax: T.C. Allen & Co., 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Maroon cloth w/impressed title/rule in black, 143 pages (including answers to the various questions posed throughout). Mildly cocked, bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, light cover soil, previous owner's name/address to front end paper, tanned. A fairly nice copy of a school book that hasn't been subjected to the indignities generally heaped upon school books..

Pawling: Self-published, 1884. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Merlot cloth w/gilt illustration to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 381 pages, illustrated. Bumped/worn corners, sunned strips to top/left portions of front cover, sunned spine, spine gilt faded, water staining, slits to right spine edge, previous owner's name to front and second end papers, some foxing to illustrations, front hinge beginning, general wear..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1944. Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on the spread of the beech scale (an insect introduced into the Maritimes), a list of flora introduced into the neighbourhood of Windsor, N.S., the birds found in a small area of Fredericton, N.B., the use of Fucus Vesiculosis and Fucus Nodosus as fertilizer, a Japanese beetle outbreak in Halifax, Part III of a 4-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, and more. Red wraps, pages 137-194, two in-text maps. Faded wraps, light general wear. Internally tight..

Kingston: Royal Military College of Canada, 1982. Journal. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The fifth title in the Occasional Papers of the Department of English, R.M.C. series, this one "intended to be a research support document for use with 'The Acadian Magazine', Canada's first literary journal." (The compilers make the same claim for another magazine toward which they turned their attention, "The Nova-Scotia Magazine," and since it began life in 1789, 37 years before this one, it would seem that the true credit as Canada's first literary journal goes there). Photocopied typescript, stapled, 39 pages (including indices). A suggestion of wear..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1945. Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on forest insects of Newfoundland, plutonic rocks of the Musquash area, wild plants as a source of carotene, skunk removal, repairing fractured deer bones, Part IV of a four-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, lepidoptera taken in-and-near Fredericton, the James S. Lord collection of birds' eggs, and more. Red wraps, pages 1-80, illustrated. Light general wear. Internally tight..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1946. Journal. About Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on the biological reconnaissance of ponds in the P.E.I. national park, green-gilled clams and bivalves on P.E.I., using flight traps in studying aphid movement, the rock vole in New Brunswick, Jefferson's salamander on P.E.I., and more. Contributors include M.W. Smith, C.J. Kerswill, R.P. Gorham, F.C. Hirtle, C.C. Smith, Blythe Hurst, and Herbert Habeeb. Red wraps, pages 81-122, illustrated. Faded wraps (although every copy of this issue I've ever seen has been the same colour, so perhaps it isn't really faded at all), light general wear. Internally tight..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1943. Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on flora introduced to the neighbourhood of Windsor, N.S., the history of plum culture in New Brunswick, Part I of a 4-part series on New Brunswick's moss flora, the golden-winged woodpecker, lead-zinc-silver ore in Reserve Brook, and more. Red wraps, pages 51-86, illustrated w/2 figures. Light general wear. Internally tight..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick for the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 1946. Journal. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on the vegetation of the Annapolis Valley, conglomerates of recent age in New Brunswick, changes in mammal population in New Brunswick, and the occurrence of Platysamia columbia sm. in New Brunswick (Saturniidae, lepidoptera). Contributors include Albert E. Roland, F.J. Alcock, W. Austin Squires, and R.S. Forbes. Red wraps, pages 1-47, illustrated. Faded wraps (although every copy of this issue I've ever seen has been the same colour, so perhaps it isn't really faded at all), light general wear. Throughout the journal are several handwritten observations, in ink, apparently by honorary member Wm. H. Moore. Uncommon..

Newmarket: Privately published, 2014. Book. Illus. by Anthony Ventura (cover illustration). Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Oblong octavo. Playter provides brief histories of numerous hotels/drinking establishments in Newmarket, Ontario, with information on the advent of Prohibition, which saw them all closed by 1911. Forewords (misspelled in both instances as "foreward") by Dan MacPherson and L. Keith Taylor). Black cloth, 20 pages, illustrated. Lightly scuffed cloth in similar dust jacket. A nice copy of an uncommon item..

Boston: Samuel E. Cassino Book. Illus. by The Author, Frederick Walker, and R.B. Wallace. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No date. Brown cloth w/blind-stamped floral decoration to front cover/spine, gilt lettering/rule to spine, 922 pages, illustrated. Bumped/worn/lightly frayed corners/spine ends, a bit cocked, light cover soil, soiled edges, front hinge beginning, rear end paper excised. An uncommon edition..

New York: Simon & Schuster (S&S) / Little Golden Book 315; Golden Press 354; Simon & Schuster 318 Book. Illus. by Mel Crawford, John Leone, Al Schmidt. Very Good. Illustrated Boards. First Edition ("A").. Octavos -- from 7.75" to 9.75" tall. Three titles, two of the fictional variety based on U.S. television shows (Cheyenne, which starred Clint Walker as the titular character, and Maverick, which starred James Garner as the tall, handsome, broad-shouldered good guy), and the other mythologizing an alleged hero of the American West (no mention of a fixed boxing match or continued involvement with prostitutes). Rubbing, corners moderately worn, a bit of chipping to spine ends, two books with previous owner's name (one in pencil, the other in ink)..

White Circle 268, Book Company of America 009, Gold Medal R2037, Avon S379 Book. Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Four titles featuring a variety of miscreants committing an impressive collection of despicable acts generally frowned upon by polite society, but usually given only a little attention by the people in power so long as the despicable acts are forced upon the poor and powerless. No loose pages, missing words or kidnapped punctuation..

Star 39657, Dell First Edition B107, Berkley S2732, Fawcett T2624 Book. Very Good. Paperbacks. First Editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Four anthologies containing weird and wonderful stories from a group of writers who are every bit as weird and wonderful as their work. After a foreword from Robert Bloch and a preface by the editor, 'Weird Legacies' includes stories by Conan creator Robert E. Howard ("Skulls in the Stars"), Mary Elizabeth Counselman ("The Three Marked Pennies"), Edmond Hamilton ("He That Hath Wings"), Francis Flagg ("The Distortion Out of Space"), Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter ("The Utmost Abomination"), Eric Frank Russell and Leslie J. Johnson ("Eternal Rediffusion"), Ray Bradbury ("The Ducker"), Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner ("The Black Kiss"), and H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth ("The Survivor"). 'Stories for the Dead of Night' presents… Read more