Search Results: Authors starting with E from Augustine Funnell Books

Bayside: Korby Publishing, 2004. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In a collection of compelling interviews, "Twenty-four former workers of the St. Croix Mill give first-hand accounts of their experiences in the largest industry ever to operate in southwest New Brunswick" in the process describing a world long gone. Eagan has inscribed this copy: "Margaret-Mary/Hope this holds good/memories of Milltown/for you. Enjoy!/Bill Eagan/July 24/'04". 263 pages (including [postscript, glossary, bibliography, index), illustrated. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, gift inscription to previous owner, light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Ottawa: Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, 1964. Map. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paper 63-34, containing "Report and Map 38-1963." The writer's name is given as P.R. Eakin on the title page, but P.R. Eakins on the cover. 3 pages, map in rear pocket. Light general wear..

Fredericton: Privately Printed, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. "A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Psychology." Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 117 pages (including appendices) + vita. A bit of spotting to covers/edges, gently bumped corners/spine ends, mildly cocked, light tanning..

Fredericton: Omega Publishing Division of Omega Management Services, 1978. Book. Very Good. Wraps in Cerlox (plastic comb). Signed by Author(s). First Printing.. Small octavo. "Some Interesting Recipes of Old Acadia," including such things as bubble and squeak, kartoffelsuppe, poutines rapees, scouse, fiskefars, medisterpolse, blueberry grunt, galop kringle, krammerhuse, pikelets and a bashamal of lamb's ears, as well as stuff we've actually heard of. 95 pages. Light cover soil, light general wear..

Popular Library 293 / Better Publications of Canada, 1950. Book. Illus. by Rudolph Belarski (cover illustration). Good. Paperback. 1st paperback edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. A young socialite who still has the hots for a former lover, now married, is re-united with him, and he promises (naturally) that his marriage is finished. Shortly thereafter his wife turns up dead (looks like he was right). 190 pages + two pages of advertisements for other Popular Library titles. Spine cocked, edgewear, light chipping to spine ends, thin handling crease to middle area of front cover, tanned pages, a little dampstaining to fore-edges of first few pages. Relatively tight and clean..

Moat Hall 004330/Magread Limited, 1980. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two brothers, one a committed SS officer, the other a weary tank commander, are on a collision course. 224 pages. Mild edgewear, thin scratches, impressions..

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Small octavo. The third thriller featuring Marc Savage, newspaperman and ex-CIA operative, and Otis Stilwell, his erstwhile partner in "The Company." Gently bumped corners, tanned top edge, partially tanned fore-edge, some soil to top edge, wrinkle to front pastedown (printer's flaw), in price-clipped dust jacket w/sunned edges, moderate edgewear, 1/4" tear to bottom of front fold, some subsequent gentle creasing/crinkling, lightly rubbed..

Toronto: Harlequin 132, 1951. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. When "a biographer of unusual women" digs into the past of a woman found "dead in a strange automobile accident," he uncovers the years "which marked her vivid transition from adolescent slut and consort of Chicago hoodlums to Hollywood tramp, from wily strip-teaser to wife of a respectable and wealthy man. But always with a different name, different personality, different man -- always completely evil, exciting and fatal." (she sounds like a lot of fun, actually). 160 pages. Cocked w/light edge-/surface wear, tanned. A fairly nice copy of an uncommon Harlequin..

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A reappraisal of Pope's poetry, finding "in his later work a significant change from the balanced 'Augustan' style in the poems before the Dunciad and the moral satires of the 1730's." Green and yellow boards, 142 pages (including notes). Bumped/moderately worn corners, bumps to bottom edge of back cover, previous owner's name along bottom edge of front end paper, small sticker (UTP University Bookroom) to bottom edge of front pastedown, moderate general wear, in moderately edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket w/sun-darkened spine, short edge tears, moderate general wear..

New York : Hampton Publishing Company Book. Illus. by M.L. Kirk. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. No date. Contains a prose adaptation of Longfellow's original verse, as well as the poem itself, the whole nicely illustrated w/six colour paintings that first graced the 1910 edition published by Frederick A. Stokes. Brown cloth w/tipped-on illustration to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 313 pages, small bookseller's tag to bottom left corner of rear pastedown. Moderately bumped/worn corners/spine ends, top edge lightly soiled/sunned, in moderately worn dust jacket w/impressions/scratches, 1" tear to top right area of front panel, 1.5" tear to top right spine/top left of front panel, moderate chipping to corners/spine ends..

New York: Lenox Hill Pub. & Dist. Co. (Burt Franklin), 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. Small quarto. "Reprinted from the original edition in the University of California at Berkeley Library." Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering. Foxed top edge, tiny soil mark to front cover, moderate wear to corners/spine ends..

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's well-received first book, and quite possibly the most delightfully peculiar autobiography ever written. Grey cloth w/red cloth backstrip w/silver spine lettering, 375 pages, dust jacket illustration by Komar & Melamid. Bumped spine ends, in lightly scuffed dust jacket w/an impression to left edge of front panel, gentle crinkle to top spine. Dust jacket in protective Brodart sleeve. A nice, unread copy. (A word about our grading: Fine -- or, sometimes, As New -- is our highest grade, and it's down from there. "Mint" is a word referring to a delightful flavour or an imposing edifice where coins are produced. It may be acceptable where baseball cards or comic books or coins and the like are concerned, but it has absolutely no place in the terminology and protocols of the book world. No place whatsoever. None. Zero.).

Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1974. Book. Illus. by Frankie Johnson. Good. Wraps. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Eisler's first book of poetry. 83 pages. Sticker shadow to front cover, yellowed pages, small brownish soil mark to first end paper..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 2021. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small octavo. In alternating passages this one tells the story of a nine-year-old boy escaping war-torn Syria, and the teenage girl who rescues him after the dilapidated fishing boat he's on capsizes. Winner of the 2021 Giller Prize and the hundred grand that goes with it. Small octavo, black boards w/black cloth backstrip w/silver spine lettering, 235 pages + acknowledgments, a note about the author and a note on the type. An unread, pristine copy,.

Aylesbury: G.T. de Fraine & Co. Ltd., 1923. Book. About Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As the sub-title suggests, a fond look at various aspects of rural Buckinghamshire, including its moats, water-mills and windmills, barns, duck decoys, cottages, and much else. Grey cloth w/black scythe illustration, cream cloth backstrip, 129 pages + index (four pages), four maps (three in-text, 1 frontispiece fold-out), illustrated. Slight warp, tanned/foxed edges, previous owner's bookplate attached to front pastedown, off-setting to end papers, light tanning..

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1921. Book. Good. Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A title from the publisher's Collection of British Authors series, this being Vol. 550. Some foxing/soil, a bit cocked, dampstain to back cover/last page, some pages roughly opened by previous owner (although apparently no text affected)..

Fredericton: York Press, 1976. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. "A concise dictionary that gives the meaning, explains the origin, and lists the French, German and Spanish equivalents of important literary terms." 154 pages, including indices. Rubbing, moderate edgewear all around, moderate general wear..

New York: Simon & Schuster (S&S) / Denene Millner, 2021. Book. Illus. by Taj Francis (dust jacket illustration). As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Elle's first novel. When her mother is murdered, a teen-aged girl "is snatched away by a father who abandoned her at birth -- a father who now insists she follow him to his home, Ghizon, a secret country of gods who wield a powerful magic." Half-god, half-human, her very existence in this magical country is a crime. Black boards w/gilt wing design to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, 354 pages + acknowledgments. An unread copy in pristine, collectible condition..

Sydney: Thomas Nelson (Australia) Ltd., 1970. Book. Good Reading Copy. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is "an anthology of colonial poems selected not on the 'beauties of literature' principle but for their historical importance -- because they are most characteristic and lively and give the most vivid and immediate impression of an historical past which we are only now in a position to view in an historical perspective." Cream cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 280 pages (including notes on the poems, biographical notes, indices)..

London : Cassell and Company Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No date (circa 1923). First published in the U.S. by Winston, in 1913. Illustrated cloth w/illustration/git lettering to spine, 314 pages, illustrated (colour frontispiece, four black-and white). Cocked, edges smudged/tanned/foxed/lightly soiled, gift inscription (dated 1923)/previous owner's name to front end paper, off-setting/foxing to end papers/pastedowns, light soil/foxing throughout, in edgeworn dust jacket w/chipping/tears to corners/spine ends, 2" x 1" piece from top spine, some soil, surface wear. Fairly scarce in a dust jacket..