Search Results: Signed (all categories) from Augustine Funnell Books

Doaktown: Central Miramichi Historical Society, 2014. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Green. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contains 128 brief profiles of renowned fishers, flytiers, guides, and others who have contributed to the Miramichi area's well-deserved reputation in the salmon-fishing world. Among those inducted into the Atlantic Salmon Museum's Hall of Fame during the 30-year span from 1983 until 2013, and whose stories/reminiscences are included, are Ted Williams (who apparently could hit a baseball), David Adams Richards (who apparently could write a bestselling novel), and Lee and Joan Wulff (who apparently could catch more fish than almost anyone else in the entire book). Black boards w/silver foil cover/spine lettering, 373 pages (including acknowledgements, selected bibliography, and list of inductees), illustrated. A nice, read-only-once copy w/light general wear. This tome weighs just about as much as your car, so additional postage will probably be… Read More

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..

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..

St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 2004. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Grant "describes the inner workings of the military as he saw it during his tour of duty as a reservist with 1 RCR, as part of UNPROFOR to CANBAT One, Croatia during 1994-95. Grant's candid descriptions take us into the horrors of a war torn country, the tensions of keeping peace between bitter enemies, and the daily routine of life in a military camp." 320 pages, illustrated. Moderate edgewear. Internally tight and clean..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. Black cloth w/blue spine lettering, 412 pages. Bumped corners w/faint splash soil to fore edge/bottom edge, in lightly worn dust jacket..

St. John's: Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Oblong octavo. From the back cover: "-- takes the reader on an exciting journey of archaeological discoveries which have uncovered evidence of more than five millennia of human occupation of Port au Choix." 64 pages, illustrated. Light general wear..

Toronto: Flick Printing Limited, 1971. Book. Good to Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed Compliments of the Author card laid in. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Flick writes lovingly about his dog. Flick has written "To Dalton Camp" on the Compliments of the Author card, and signed his name diagonally beneath it. Camp (September 11, 1920 -- March 18, 2002) was a political strategist who, as a journalist, politician, and commentator, was a decades-long influence in Canadian politics. 92 pages, illustrated. A bit cocked, reading crease, impressions/scratches, moderate general wear. Scarce..

Flagstaff: Northland Publishing, 1992. Book. Illus. by The Author. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Lacapa, on title page. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "A beautiful Apache maiden follows the mysterious young man who has come to teach her people to respect 'all things great and small' and becomes his wife." Illustrated boards, oblong octavo, unpaginated. A couple of thin wrinkles (printing flaw) to covers, in lightly scuffed dust jacket w/wear/wrinkling to top edge. Regrettably, my scanner isn't large enough to accomodate the full cover illustration, so it's a bit truncated, but you'll get the general idea of its condition..

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A story of animosity, vendettas and violence between rival merchants in "an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline." First edition w/complete number line. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 323 pages. An unread copy in dust jacket w/short wrinkle to bottom spine (a printing flaw that hardly anyone driving by in a car will notice)..

Riverview: Owl's Head Press, 1986. Book. Illus. by Richard Deniger (cover illustration). Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is #22. A collection of verse "influenced by French and Spanish surrealists, and Japanese and Chinese poets." Signed by Wright, on half-title. 51 pages. A suggestion of edgewear..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title in the author's bestselling series of award-winning Inspector Banks mysteries. 389 pages (including acknowledgements). This copy signed on title page. Bent top left corner of back cover, in dust jacket w/corresponding crinkle to top left corner of rear panel. An unread copy..

London: Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2005. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. Tejpal's first novel. Tells the story of a penniless young couple very much in love who move into a sprawling old house on the lower Himalayas, where, after finding a set of diaries written by a glamorous American adventuress, the novel's narrator "finds himself irresistibly drawn away from his wife and thrust into another world and time, into the hole of history." Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 518 pages. A pristine, unread copy..

Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2007. Book. New. French flaps. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Small octavo. Contains Cooper's first book of poetry ('Blood-Lines,' published in 1979), with a collection of poems in response (written 25 years later), created in the same place as the original collection. 48 pages..

Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1989. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Curtis's first novel, which was also the first title in his acclaimed Brennen Siding Trilogy. 263 pages. Mildly sunned spine, light surface wear, gently bumped corners, thin reading crease to spine, small soil mark to top right corner of half-title..

Emeryville: Biblioasis, 2008. Book. Illus. by Eric Orchard. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Authors. First Edition.. Small quarto. A baby and a pig in search of a name for the former end up in the mountains "as they seek an audience with the Wizard and his baby-naming Mexican beaded lizard." Inscription from both authors reads, "For Noah,/Happy Reading!" Bumped corner/spine ends, in lightly worn dust jacket..

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Kelly gives us the story of "a wildly eccentric Massachusetts clan that is both blessed and afflicted with an inexhaustible reservoir of old money, unwavering subversive charm -- and a veritable chorus of dogs." Cream boards w/black spine lettering, 324 pages + one-paragraph biography. An unread copy..

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1972. Book. Illus. by Stephen Gerriets (cover illustration). Near Very Good. Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Some rubbing, light edgewear, crinkled bottom left corner, short vertical handling creases to bottom portion of front cover. Internally tight and clean. Scarce signed..

Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2001. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. Small octavo. Thompson's first novel, telling the story of an English teacher in Japan whose enthusiasm for life in general is gradually waning until she "encounters a half-Japanese teenager, Naomi, wrangling with her double identity." Self-examination and renewed determination ensue. Inscription reads, "For A***-M*** N*****--/With thanks," above the title, and "Holly Thompson/Kamakura 2001" beneath her name on title page. 292 pages. Moderate corner wear, some scuffing, a bit of handling wear..

New York & Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2007. Book. Illus. by Squire Broel. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Carman, on title page. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first book in Carman's Atherton series. First printing w/complete number sequence. A rock-climbing lonely boy "looking for a treasure lost in the faded memory of his past" soon learns that "the treasure reveals a coming catastrophe." Illustrated boards, 330 pages, plus "Supplemental Data Flow of Dr. Harding's Brain," wraparound half-jacket illustration by Bernard Garcia. CD in unopened case at rear. Remainder stripe across bottom edge near spine, bump to top spine. Publisher's Signed Copy sticker to bottom of front dust jacket. An unread copy..