Search Results: Authors starting with V from Augustine Funnell Books

Gold Medal 556, 1956. Book. Illus. by Frank McCarthy (cover illustration). Near Fine. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing, paperback original. An Israeli woman who survived Auschwitz is searching for guns for Israel, as a consequence of which she hooks up with an American man with whom she travels from North Africa to Spain in quest of the weapons. A nice copy w/only moderate general wear, tanning. Internally tight and clean..

Glen Rock: Scarlet Street Inc. / Richard Valley, 2003. Magazine. Very Good. Magazine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Contains a variety of articles on a variety of genre films, including horror, mystery and film noir. 82 pages, illustrated. Light general wear..

Washington: University Press of America, 1978. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "Contains a collection of psychological essays and studies which analyses the South African situation from a psychosocial perspective. They deal with the psychology of the racial policies in South Africa and the national personality and psychopathology of White South Africa, with special emphasis on the Afrikaner." The contents include "three essays on the Psychology of Apartheid followed by the reports of nine empirical studies, the findings of which form the basis of the interpretation expounded in the essays. It is concluded by an essay on child development and the future of South Africa." In addition to the editors, contributors include Gerald Singer, Zafra Barkusky, Elisha Davar, David Edwards, Graham A. Tyson, Sam Lison, George R. Frampton, F.J. Quesnell, Richard M. Oxtoby, Elsa Meyer, and C. Raphaely.… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/Scribner, 1967. Book. Illus. by The Author. Good. Hardcover. First Edition (A on copyright page).. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A Chinese detective story featuring Judge Dee, now in his 50s "when he has already served four years in the capital as President of the Metropolitan Court." Chronologically this one links with 'The Willow Pattern.' Beige cloth w/red decoration to front cover, red lettering to spine, 208 pages (including postscript). Minor cocking, dusty/tanned edges, light tanning, tiny soil mark to right edge of half-title/title pages, light mustiness, in price-clipped dust jacket w/sunned spine, thin impressions, light general wear. Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve..

Warner 75-453, 1974. Book. Illus. by The Author. Good. Paperback. 1st Warner edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. A Judge Dee mystery, this one finding our protagonist "consorting with criminals as he goes incognito into the underworld of Weiping. Bargaining with thieves, sharing beds with prostitutes, he discovers the evidence to expose among the upper classes fraud, perversion -- and murder." 174 pages (including postscript), cover illustration by Tom Hall. Spine cocked/rolled, general wear..

Ho Chi Minh City: Tri Publishing House, 1997. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Square octavo. Pham Van Mui was an award-winning Vietnamese photographer who died in 1992. Text in English, Vietnamese and French. Grey boards w/silver lettering to front cover, 80 pages. University stamp to front end paper, split binding at pages 16-17 (nothing is loose), light general wear, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, uneven 1" tear to top left corner of front panel, light wear to corners, impressions..

Agincourt: GLC Silver Burdett Publishers, 1984. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st paperback editions.. Square octavos. All 11 titles in the publisher's Canada Rainbow Series for children, detailing history and facts relating to each of Canada's (then) 10 provinces and its territories. Each volume 23 pages (including glossary), illustrated. Each volume w/previous owner's name to top right corner of front end paper, moderate general wear, some mustiness..

Toronto: Popular Library/Eagle Books EB11, 1954. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st Popular Library edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. Originally published in 1949, in hardcover, by E.P. Dutton & Company. A man who is irresistible to women and who has preyed on "every easy girl in the Caribbean" (*every* easy girl in the Caribbean? -- the poor guy must be exhausted!), has remained unsatisfied until he meets a "white girl who had everything to give --and was afraid to give it" (uh huh, right, yeah, sure). Front cover illustration shows some rubber-spined babe dancing in a gyrational frenzy suggesting that her back might be hinged in at least two places. Thin reading crease to left edge of front cover, rubbing, mild edgewear, mild slant, long/thin vertical scrape to back cover, public library stamp to front free end paper, tanning. Internally tight and clean..

Baltimore: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1942. Magazine. Good. Magazine. Small quarto. An issue devoted entirely to Daniel Willard and his life, containing a wide variety of articles and tributes. 80 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear..

Amsterdam: H.J.W. Becht Book. Good to Very Good. Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No date (circa 1950). One of 36 Dutch-language titles from the publisher's Palet Serie, "Een Reeks Monografieen Over Hollandsche En Vlaamsche Schilders," examining the painter's work. Pale blue wraps, 60 pages (including bibliography), illustrated. Edgewear, lightly smudged covers, moderate general wear..

Ace 84582 Book. Very Good. Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Reissues the Ace edition from 1953. A year after she is killed in a car crash, a woman returns to inform the driver of the car that an organization of which he has never heard has condemned him to death..

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1987. Book. Illus. by Tibor Kovalik. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Twenty stories/essays concerning horror literature's most enduring archetypes, the vampire and the ghost. Contributors include Margaret L. Carter ("The Count's Soliloquy"), Peter Allan ("Domdaniel"), F.G. Loring ("The Tomb of Sarah"), E.F. Benson ("The Room in the Tower"), Theophile Gautier ("The Beautiful Vampire"), Vlad Kinkopf ("Nellie's Grave"), Peter Underwood ("The Italian Count"), Rabindranath Tagore ("The Hungry Stones"), Margaret L. Carter ("A Call in the Blood"), Robert Bloch ("The Cloak"), P'u Sung-Ling ("The Painted Skin"), F. Marion Crawford ("For the Blood is the Life"), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ("Schalken the Painter"), Bram Stoker ("The Judge's… Read More

Toronto: Doubleday Canada/Random House Canada, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vasas-Brown's first novel. A serial killer in San Francisco has already claimed four victims, and the roommate of the fourth suspects that she knows the murderer's identity, which may make her the next victim. This copy signed on title page. Red boards w/silver spine lettering, 293 pages. Lightly rubbed dust jacket w/impressions/thin scratches. An unread copy..

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..

Amsterdam: N.V. Uitgevers-Maatschappij Book. Good. Hard Covers. Small octavos. 1933 & 1930. A pair of Dutch-language books from the publisher's Geillustreerde Wonderreizen series of Verne's works. Both volumes illustrated blue boards w/gilt lettering, 204 and 234 pages, respectively, illustrated. Sunned edges/spines, tanning, light dampstaining, brief ink notations/date to top right corners of front end papers, moderate general wear..

London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., 1892. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. An apparently uncommon edition of the second part of the English translation of Verne's 'Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant' ('The Children of Captain Grant'). Illustrated cloth, gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 179 pages + 11-page list of select novels, one-page advertisement for Keating's Powder, and 32-page list of standard reference volumes/illustrated gift books (the latter illustrated). Bumped/moderately worn corners/spine ends, cover soil, gift inscription to previous owner, front hinge partially going, strongly tanned, general wear..

El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. On his sixteenth birthday a Jewish boy is accused of murder when the younger sister of a Christian girl he daydreams about disappears in the woods outside Massena, New York. Naturally, the stupid, the ignorant and the prejudiced believe that she has been murdered as a blood sacrifice for Yom Kippur. Based on actual events in 1928. Vernick's inscription on reverse of half-title reads, "Wynelle,/Thank you for/all your support/through this wild/process!/Love,/Shirley". Ash boards w/silver spine lettering, 141 pages, including author's note. Bumped spine ends, a hint of corner wear, in lightly rubbed dust jacket w/insignificant wear to top corners. A nice copy of a book that is, as of this writing, somewhat uncommon..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. Book. Illus. by Patricia Wright. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 6th edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A collection of 10 African folk tales for juvenile readers, to be read and/or dramatized in the classroom. 62 pages (including suggestions for study and discussion). Moderate general wear..

New York: Vantage Press, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vincelli wrote most of the poems in this slender tome. Red cloth, 60 pages. Mild wear to corners, edges, spine ends, in rubbed, lightly worn dust jacket w/impressions, light wear to corners/spine ends, small chip from top left corner of front cover..

Kingston: Royal Military College of Canada, 1984. Journal. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The eighth title in the Occasional Papers of the Department of English, R.M.C. series, this one a research support document for use with the indicated magazine. Photocopied typescript, stapled, 78 pages, including indices. Light general wear..