Search Results: Authors starting with I from Augustine Funnell Books

Toronto: KCP / Kids Can Press, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. Small octavo. Stiff card wraps edition issued simultaneously with the hardcover. Winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for Children (text). 160 pages (including historical note and author's note). A hint of edgewear, impression to bottom left corner of front cover, moderate surface wear. Internally tight and clean..

Los Angeles: Holloway House HH-176, 1969. Book. Illus. by Ron Wolin (cover illustration). Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback original. Slim/Beck/Moppins presents "a chronicle of Negro ghetto life which should be recognized as the most vivid and important ever published. Beck's premise is that hatred is as destructive to those who hate as it is to those who are hated. His life on Chicago's Southside lends ample authority to his writing." 313 pages + seven pages of advertisements for other Holloway House publications. A bit of edge-/corner wear, moderate handling wear, tanning..

Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st PUM edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated from the English edition (published as "On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge") by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon. Based on a series of dialogues originally published in a Japanese literary magazine in 1998. Cream cloth w/olive cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 294 pages, illustrated. A lovely copy. .

London: Leicester University Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the front flap: "This study seeks to investigate and explain Paul Valery's well-known denunciations of inspiration and his advocacy of controlled composition." Blue cloth w/publisher's device in gilt to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 187 pages (including index). Bumped corners/spine ends, off-setting to end papers, light tanning. Dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 2nd edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ingram summarizes the themes of Jurgen Habermas' 'Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns,' "placing them in the context of the philosopher's other work, relating them to poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and Neo-Aristotelianism, and surveying what other critics have said about Habermas." 263 pages, including index. Moderate soil to top edge, moderate general wear..

Toronto: Popular Library K61, 1963. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Canadian printing of a title first published in hardcover in 1954 by W.W. Norton. In 1944, eight of a B-24 Liberator bomber's 10-man crew were forced to bail out when their plane was damaged during a mission (the other two men had bailed immediately after the plane was hit, and were presumed dead). The men landed in Montenegro, which was occupied by the Germans, but were rescued by Serbian Chetnik guerrillas who hid them for more than 10 months while trying to get them back to their base in Italy. Inks was the plane's navigator. 159 pages + brief author biography, map frontispiece. Moderately cocked/rolled, light edgewear, previous owner's name across top of first end paper..

Toronto: White Circle C.D. 434, 1950. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A mining engineer in pursuit of mineral wealth in Norway will commit "every known crime" in order to achieve his goal. In the process he'll also manage to throw away the love of a good woman (makes sense, really, since it's easier to get another good woman than it is to unearth deposits of valuable minerals -- especially if all the good women in question already know that his bank account is stuffed). 192 pages. Moderately cocked, light edgewear, tiny bit of chipping to spine ends, faint, full-length vertical crease to front cover, moderately sunned spine w/small splash-stain, tanning. A fairly nice copy of an uncommon edition..

Bucuresti (Bucharest): Editura Litera, 1984. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Collection of Romanian-language poems. 71 pages, illustrated. A bit of edgewear, previous owner's in-text correction to one word, light general wear..

Toronto: Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada, 2006. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Uncorrected Proof.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's second book, telling the story of a 10-year-old boy who struggles for survival on the streets of Bombay. 310 pages. Light rubbing, a hint of wear. An unread copy, internally tight and clean..

Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. Author's well-received first novel set in Bombay, where it "begins and ends with a search for the narrator's severed arm." Red cloth w/black lettering/gold decorations to front cover/spine, wraps half-sleeve around back cover, 252 pages, map end papers. NF band. Unread..

London: Tom Stacey, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Tom Stacey edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A man who has dinner with a nameless woman returns home to find his wife strangled, himself the prime suspect in her murder, and desperately needing to find the nameless woman in order to clear himself. Green cloth w/silver foil lettering to spine, 256 pages. Light edgewear, moderately cocked, price impressions to top right corner of front end paper, in rubbed, lightly worn dust jacket..

Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Paperback in dust jacket. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Irving's twelfth novel, telling the story of the decades-long flight of a cook and his son after an accident in a logging community in northern New Hampshire. Translated from the English by Josée Kamoun. Inscription reads, "pour John/Happy 40th!/John Irving". Uncommon signed. A hint of wear in dust jacket w/impressions/thin scratches, moderate handling wear, 3/8" tear to top edge of rear panel w/subsequent 1.25" diagonal crease, faint pink stain to top edge of rear panel..

Fredericton: Self-published (printed and bound by Unipress), 1983. Book. Illus. by R.H. Nicholson. Very Good. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. An appreciation of the life and work of a New Brunswick evangelist and painter. Green cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 95 pages (including acknowledgements), illustrated in colour and black-and-white. A hint of wear to corners/spine ends, in rubbed dust jacket w/a bit of chipping to corners/spine ends, edgewear, short edge tears, thin impressions/scratches. .

Vancouver & Toronto: UBC Press, 2010. Book. Very Good to Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title from the publisher's Studies in Canadian Military History series. Isitt "sheds new light on a part of Canadian history that previous scholars have written off as a mere sideshow, a rather embarrassing episode that had no impact on the First World War." 299 pages (including appendices, notes, bibliography, index), illustrated. Light scuffing, faint edge soil, gift inscription (on front pastedown). Internally tight and clean..

Toronto: HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins Publishers/Greenwillow Books, 2004. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of 20 stories gathering Itani's best work, and offering seven new stories as well. Grey/dark green boards w/silver foil lettering to front cover/spine, 272 pages. A nice, unread copy in a lightly scuffed dust jacket..

Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978. Book. Illus. by Shizuye Takashima. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. Small octavo. The 249th title in the Fiddlehead Poetry Book series, this one the first title by a multi-award-winning poet, fiction writer and essayist. Limited to 600 copies. 55 pages. Small soil mark to centre of front cover at top, small sticker/soil mark pull to top right corner of same, light surface wear. Internally clean..