Search Results: Authors starting with D from Augustine Funnell Books

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..

Privately Printed Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. No date (circa 1995). Culled from a variety of sources, this offers a brief history of a small New Brunswick parish that "includes mainly the communities of Hatfield Point, Springfield, Belleisle Creek, Bull Moose Hill, East Scotch Settlement, Stewarton, Lower Midland, Upper Midland, Keirsteadville, Long Point, West Scotch Settlement, The Grant, Elm Brook, Pascobac, Joliff Brook and McAllister." An uncommon item of interest to those researching local history or genealogies, with lists of doctors, teachers and pastors (and an occasional list of students), for some of the communities. 53 pages + map (unnumbered page 54) at rear. Light 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..

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..

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..

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..

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 to Good. 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..

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..

London: Century/Random House UK Limited, 1999. Book. Illus. by Colin Hadley (dust jacket illustation). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. The eleventh book in the author's Falco series set in first-century Rome. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 292 pages. Moderate general wear, in lightly rubbed dust jacket w/thin scratches, 1/4" tear to bottom spine, price sticker remnants to bottom of front flap..

Toronto: Jardine & Young Limited, 1966. Magazine. About Very Good. Magazine. 1st printing.. Small quarto. Features articles on a wide variety of subjects, including a moose hunter's tall tales, ice fishing, the best weapons for hunting rabbits, beer-and-game recipes, suggestions for building an ice hut, and more, by the editors, James Alverton, David Proulx, Marily Cooper, Jordan Hill, Ian Paterson, Grant Hopkins, Kerry Wood, Tiny Bennett, Eldon Stonehouse, John Ayriss, and George Carnegie. 32 pages (including covers), illustrated. Address sticker to top of front cover, rubbing, small puncture from back cover through to middle of magazine..

New York, New York, Montreal, Toronto: Lion Books 10, Hillman 35, Bantam 1652, Graphic G210 Book. Good or better. Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. This multi-pack includes a story about "a cattle town with only 24 hours left to live"; an adventure featuring the Utah Kid and his pal Old Heck Kilada; a gang of outlaws carefully planning a dead-end ambush; and "a roaring epic of Texas guns." All have moderate general wear, with no loose or missing pages. Sorry, but no substitutions of titles. .

Burbank: Renegade Press, 1985. Bound Comic/Digest. Good. Magazine. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The third issue of the black-and-white horror comic originally intended to publish early art and stories by Gene Day, but which eventually included material by other people, too. This issue contains a story written and illustrated by Day, a story by him illustrated by Bruce Conklin, and a story by A. Funnell, illustrated by Day. General handling wear. These don't appear to be terribly common..