Search Results: Titles starting with P from Augustine Funnell Books

Scranton: International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S., 1920. Book. Fair. Wraps. First Edition.. Small octavo. #1293. A scarce booklet issued by the I.C.S. home study course. (1912), 65 pages + three pages of examination questions, illustrated. Dampstaining, covers partially pulled from staples, spine separations, handling wear..

West Vancouver: Terra Bella Publishers, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). 1st paperback edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A personal essay exploring "the beauty, biodiversity and spirit of the new forests of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest growing back after logging." Above his signature, Moore has written, "May the forest be with you." 110 pages (including notes, index), illustrated. Some surface wear, 2" vertical grey stain to top of page 110..

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Libraries, 1986. Book. About Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Beginning in 1978, Livesay began to donate her papers to the University of Manitoba Libraries, and this publication details the vast majority of her work available to researchers. Divided into four sections: manuscripts and papers, photograph collection, tape recording collection, and books and imprints collection. 419 pages (including appendices), illustrated. Edgewear, reading crease, rubbing, impressions, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. Scarce..

Ottawa: Book Coach Press, 2004. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "McQuinn takes readers on an intimate journey, showing how she came through homeopathic medicine to the broader system of Heilkunst (Healing Art) through her son's serious physical and behavioural problems." 156 pages (including endnotes). Light edgewear, impressions, moderate general wear..

New York : Balzer + Bray (B+B) (Imprint of HarperCollins), 2021. Book. Illus. by Jon Klassen. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sequel to the award-winning 'Pax,' published in 2016. In this one, a year after being separated from his pet fox, a young boy, "spurred by love, loyalty, and grief," embarks on a journey to find him. Pebble-coloured boards w/embossed decorations and gilt cameos of foxes to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 247 pages. An unread, pristine copy..

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of essays "originally published in 'Past and Present' over a period of fifteen years, and here collected for the first time." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 330 pages (including index). Moderately cocked, bumped corners, in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/bumped corners, 1" tear to top edge of front panel, original price sticker to front panel.

Ottawa: F.A. Acland, 1926. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Small quarto. Mines Branch publication No. 641, the result of an undertaking intended to determine whether peat might be used as "an auxiliary source of fuel supply, especially in the central provinces of Ontario and Quebec, where shortage of domestic supplies of fuel was most keenly felt." 298 pages (including appendices), illustrated. A bit cocked, minor edgewear, some cover soil..

Huddersfield: The Advertiser Press Book. Illus. by John P. Hanson. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No date (1958). Describes the early growth of transport in the community, the origins of canals and railways, private industry, tramways, and much else. Foreword by William Hallitt. This copy signed by both author and illustrator. 98 pages. Light edgewear, brief inscription to previous owner on inside front cover. .

Halifax: Students of Dalhousie University, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The 1930 edition of Dalhousie University's yearbook, containing the usual year book stuff. 200 pages, including advertisements. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, light cover wear, moderate general wear..

London: Cassell, 1961. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated by Robert Graves. Light brown cloth w/gilt lettering, 215 pages. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name/place/date, in moderately worn dust jacket..

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of 16 stories by a New Zealand-born writer and academic who made a lasting mark on Canadian literature and literary criticism while living and working in New Brunswick. This copy warmly inscribed on front end paper (To Bev & Allie/with Christmas greetings/& warm wishes for/1966 -- from/Mary & Desmond Pacey"). Yellow cloth w/navy spine lettering, 143 pages, foreword by Roy Daniels. Light cover soil, lightly foxed/tanned edges, in soiled/foxed/dampstained dust jacket w/chipping to corners/spine ends. Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve..

London: Puffin/Penguin, 2006. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Illus. by David Roberts (cover illustration). Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Uncorrected Proof.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Sequel to 'The Pig Scrolls.' 261 pages. Light rubbing, a few impressions. Internally tight and clean..

New York: William-Frederick Press, 1953. Book. Illus. by Adri Ames (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A retired U.S. Army major (born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, in 1882) tells his story, one that is "a special combination of hereditary influences and the seeming manifestations of psychic phenomena," a "provocative theme [that] runs through gripping tale after tale of fighting against the fierce, proud Moros of Mindanao; the long, arduous service on the Western Plains; the lonely confinement of stations throughout the states and in other lands; the unique character of Army life, and the brief ventures into varied civil occupations." Part of the author's story took place in Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick -- mainly St. Stephen -- and Nova Scotia). Wiles has written, on the second end paper, the following inscription: "To my friend,/Donald Inches,/With best… Read More

London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Book. Illus. by W.R.S. Stott. Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No date. The story of a boy found in infancy aboard a wreck, and adopted by fishermen "in the days of sail, when seamen were really seamen, and the possibility of encountering a pirate had not yet passed away." Copies of this title are fairly common, but not in a dust jacket, as is this one. Tan cloth w/dark green decoration/lettering, 318 pages. A bit cocked, bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, dusty/tanned/lightly spotted edges, previous owner's name/address to front pastedown, in dust jacket w/chipping to corners/spine ends, uneven 1"+ tear to top edge of front panel (does not interfere with illustration), uneven 2" vertical-then-horizontal tear to bottom edge of rear panel, 2" vertical-then-horizontal tear to top edge of rear panel, other shorter edge tears, general wear. Dust jacket now safely ensconced in a protective… Read More

Stamford: Love Romances Publishing, 1953. Magazine. Fair. Illustrated Wraps. 1st printing.. Contains 'Temptress of Planet Delight,' a short novel by B. Curtis; three novelets, one each by Raymond Z. Gallun ("Give Back a World"), the incomparable Philip K. Dick ("The Infinites"), and James McKimmey, Jr. ("Last Run on Venus"); and four short stories: "Mars is Home," by Bryan Barry, "Cosmic Castaway," by Stanley Mullen, "Eyes of the Double Moon," by Joe L. Hensley, and Con-Fen," by James R. Adams. Also contains a letters section. 112 pages, illustrated. Edgewear, chipping, edge tears, front cover detached (but present), uneven 1.5" x 3/8" piece missing from bottom edge of front cover, 2/3 of back cover separated, chipping to spine ends. As mentioned, just a fair copy. Size: Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall.

Toronto: Deneau Publishers & Company Limited/The Ontario Jockey Club, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed & Numbered by Author. Limited Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A complete and detailed history (until 1984, at any rate) of North America's oldest horse race. Provides the details of each race, comprehensive lists of Plate starters, winners, jockeys, trainers, sires, and much else. This edition limited to 500 numbered and signed slipcased copies, of which this is #61. Brown cloth w/burgundy cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 301 pages, illustrated. Light general wear, in lightly soiled slipcase. A nice copy of an impressive title. A heavy book, so additional postage will be required..

London : George Newnes Limited Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. No date (circa 1902). A collection of 48 hand-coloured portraits of the most famous actors and actresses of their day, including William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes," Sarah Bernhardt in "Iseyl," Lewis Waller in "The Three Musketeers," Maud Jeffries and Beerbohm Tree in "Herod," Charles Hawtrey in "A Message From Mars," and many others. Each portrait is preceded by a page of text with considerable information about the subject and his/her accomplishments. Each portrait tipped onto stiff card stock. Olive cloth w/purple/gold illustration, gilt lettering to front cover/spine, bevelled edges, unpaginated. Bumped/moderately worn corners/spine ends, scuffed/scratched/moderately soiled/discoloured back cover, foxed/discoloured. This one's heavy, so additional postage may be required to get it from my here to wherever your there is..

Toronto: Doubleday Canada/Random House of Canada, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. The author chronicles "the year he spent with his family among the gorse, heather, and golfers of Gullane, Scotland, a town of a few thousand people east of Edinburgh, and the site of the 2002 British Open Championship." Blue boards w/white spine lettering, 311 pages + acknowledgements), map end papers. Lightly rubbed dust jacket w/thin scratches. An unread copy..

Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An original-size facsimile edition of a work first published in 1640, with reduced-size facsimile reproductions from the Wyburd Manuscript. Some corner wear, a bit of sunning to edges spine, previous owner's name in pencil to inside front cover..

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..