Search Results: Titles starting with B from Augustine Funnell Books

Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Text in Estonian. B.G. (Bengt Gottfried) Forselius was a 17th-century Estonian educator who introduced a number of educational innovations, among them the creation of a spelling system that simplified both the teaching and learning of Estonian. An uncommon title, and if you can read Estonian, you can be the envy of everyone on your block. Navy leatherette w/gold lettering to front cover/spine, 116 pages. This copy inscribed on reverse of first end paper (my Estonian is a bit rusty, and I'm not terribly familiar with the process Forselius created to facilitate learning the language, so please forgive me if I don't provide an accurate translation -- or even a wildly inaccurate one). Light general wear..

Halifax: The Early Modern Studies Department / University of King's College, 2003. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Editor. First Edition.. Small octavo. Students from King's College and Dartmouth University provide a collection of student essays that are "explorations, proposals, interpretations, and diatribes about the historical events, literature, philosophy, and art, that helped shape Western Society." Contributors include the editors, Samuel Austin, Jesse Blackwood, Naomi Blackwood, John Blanchard, Sarah Brodbar-Nemzer, Robyn Brown, James Bryson, Jeremy Dickstein, Micheal Fountain, Ross Gower, Christopher Hobrecker, Katherine E. Ireland, Elizabeth Smith, Christina Van Herk, and Katie Woodside. This copy signed by editors Samson and Reid, on title page. 145 pages, including a select chronology of events. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing w/complete number sequence. The story of Attila Ambrus, "one-time pelt smuggler, professional hockey goalie (possibly the worst in the sport's history), pen salesman, Zamboni driver, gravedigger, church painter, roulette addict, building superintendent, whiskey drinker, and native of Transylvania who's decided that the best thing to do with his time is to rob as many banks as possible." Maroon boards w/cream cloth backstrip, pink foil spine lettering, 319 pages (including postscripts, notes on sources, bibliography, appendix and acknowledgements), illustrated. Gently bumped spine ends, in dust jacket w/mild edgewear. A nice copy..

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)..

New York: Cardinal GC-135, 1962. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. After leaving Wall Street as a successful financier, Baruch "recalls the exciting role he played for nearly fifty years in national and international affairs." Follow-up to 'My Own Story.' 415 pages (including index) + three pages of advertisements for other Cardinal titles. While as common as dirt in one edition or another, for some reason this Cardinal paperback edition does not seem to be as generally available. Moderate surface wear, tanning. Should be read with care, since, being almost as old as I am, without gentle handling it may fall apart..

Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers / Harper Collins, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of World War II battles in the St. Lawrence River, which resulted in the deaths of almost 300 Canadian men, women and children. Grey cloth w/silver spine lettering, 287 pages (including sources, notes index), illustrated. Longish bump to top edge of front cover, previous owner's name/address whited out at top right corner of front end paper, in dust jacket w/impressions..

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..

Barre: Barre Publishers, 1969. Book. Illus. by The Author. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. Oblong octavo. A collection of watercolors that "captures the full range of Boston's diverse past and present: from elegant Beacon Hill to lively Hanover Street, from the Old North Church to Harvard Square." Inscription reads, "All good, happy wishes to you!/Barbara Westman/Boston/1969". Yellow cloth w/red lettering to spine, red lettering/decoration to front cover, 36 pages (34 numbered). Indentation to top edges of both covers, gift inscription to previous owner, in price-clipped dust jacket w/a bit of chipping to corners/spine ends, short edge tears (1" and shorter), small puncture above gutter at left of front panel..

Fredericton: Privately Published, 2002. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trail provides the history of a small New Brunswick community, the people who lived there, and their many and varied activities. Of interest to those concerned with local history or New Brunswick genealogy. Contains lists of title transfers, educators and photograph credits. 217 pages (including bibliography, acknowledgements), illustrated. Thin vertical crease to front cover, mild edgewear, light handling wear. A fairly nice copy..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. "An essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage." Brick boards w/maroon cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 147 pages (including notes). A hint of general wear, in dust jacket w/light wear to spine ends, scuff/rubbing to bottom right spine edge/bottom left corner of front panel. Size: Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall.

London : Cassell Illustrated / Octopus Publishing Group, 2015. Book. Fine. Illustrated Boards. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Small quarto. #35 of 75 signed/numbered copies. First printing w/complete number line. Oake "reveals the origins and science behind various illusions, and explains why there is a difference between what the eye sees and what is actually happening on stage." 224 pages, illustrated. Embossed "Supporting the Bruce Oake Foundation" stamp to front end paper, w/the handwritten notation "35/75" inside same. The 75 signed/numbered copies were offered by Oake to those who made a donation to the Bruce Oake Foundation (Bruce being Scott's brother, and an addict who died at the age of 25, from a heroin overdose). A very nice unread copy..

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author "traces the impact of changing concepts of the self and the literary subject on the formal evolution of autobiographical prose and poetry in the Romantic and modern periods." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 189 pages (including index). mild wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's neat underlining to many paragraphs in introduction, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve..

New York: Perigree / Penguin, 2010. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Small octavo. An admirer of Benjamin Franklin, Gunn records his "attempt to live by Franklin's thirteen virtues, a list of lofty ideals the Founding Father held dear," but which take "this ordinary man way outside his comfort zone and into a thicket of not-so-modern values." 250 pages (including notes, brief author biography). Internally tight and clean, with only light general wear..

Winnipeg: The Christian Press, 1961. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. German-language edition detailing the resolutions and recommendations of the Canadian Conference of the Mennonite Brotherhood during the years specified. 248 pages (including sachregister [table of contents]). A bit cocked, light edge and corner wear. Internally tight and clean..

Dunvegan: Quadrant Editions, 1983. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A "collection of interviews, profiles, personal testimonies, essays and short stories giving a stark, and yet, evocative picture of immigrants, their lands of origin and their consequent resettlement in Canada." Red cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 326 pages (including bibliography, editor's note), illustrated..

Niwot: University Press of Colorado Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. After accomplishing some amazing feats in his 70 years in the field of civil engineering, the author relates his life story as an engineer, researcher, businessman and educator. Black cloth, 191 pages (including appendices, index), illustrated. Rubbed dust jacket w/mild general wear. An unread copy. .

Dewdney: Synaxis Press, 2006. Book. Very Good to Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In a collection of essays Barker "provides not only an insider's commentary on the tradition of People's Poetry in Canadian literature, but in addition a learned discussion of the various philosophies and religious perspectives, esoteric and orthodox, that gave rise to it." Inscription reads: "For Dr. Michael Higgins,/with many thanks for the/encouragement to continue writing/that your favourable personal/review gave me./With very/good luck/Terry Barker/March 1, 2006." Erratum page (122) glued over original error page. 174 pages (including bibliography, index), illustrated. Light rubbing, light general wear. A nice copy, internally tight and clean..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Uncorrected Proof.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The story of the 1936 and 1938 Louis/Schmeling fights, "sporting events that galvanized and symbolized the hopes, hatreds and fears of a world facing the threat of war." 348 pages. An uncommon uncorrected proof. Light general wear. An unread copy, internally tight and clean..

Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1987. Book. Very Good to Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The second part of the author's autobiography, following 'Letter to the Past.' Chapter XXX, moving along quite nicely in its description of a legal spat between Margaret Atwood and Fraser Sutherland, and concerning a semi-fiction by someone named Wigle (said semi-fiction having been published by Sutherland, and having unflatteringly introduced Atwood as a character from real life), comes to an abrupt stop in mid-sentence at the bottom of page 267, skipping immediately to page 270 and Chapter XXXI. Apparently legal action was threatened, and the offending pages were omitted. Blue cloth, 300 pages. Remainder stripe across bottom edge. Dust jacket w/light edgewear..

London: Bodley Head, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of 12 stories from an acclaimed Irish writer. Moderate general wear. Price-clipped dust jacket w/rubbing, impressions, sticker shadow to front flap, moderate edgewear..