Search Results: Titles starting with F from Augustine Funnell Books

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. "Beginning with the tree-climbing lessons of our earliest ancestors," through to explaining "today's extreme sports and thrill-seeking technology," the author "tells the astonishing story of how taking a fall has evolved from an experience that the ancients used as a metaphor for damnation to one so prized that today millions crave its intense rush." Red and yellow boards w/red foil spine lettering, 342 pages (including acknowledgements, notes, selected bibliography, index), illustrated. An internally tight and clean unread copy..

Coronet 17404, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Coronet edition.. Knight's first novel, originally published in hardcover, in 1971, by Hodder & Stoughton. In 1965 a contented family man and unimpressive scholar plans to teach in Nigeria, to which he takes his wife and young son, and where he becomes a violent murderer. An uncommon edition. Spine cocked a bit, some edgewear, light general wear..

St. Paul: Cathetical Guild Educational Society, 1961. Book. About Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Cathetical Guild edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Published under the imprimatur of Camille A. LeBlanc, bishop of Bathurst, New Brunswick, with the nihil obstat of Thomas J. McKendy. 269 pages Some cocking, small chip to bottom spine, tanned pages, handling wear, light spotting to edges, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. Uncommon in this edition..

Wolfville: Governors of Acadia University, 1963. Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Green cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 141 pages (including appendices and topical index), illustrated. A couple of small scrapes to covers, sticker glue remains to bottom spine/cover corners, faint wear to corners/spine ends, high school library stamps to top and bottom edges, pencil impressions to top right corner of first end paper, library stamp neatly to top of title page. Although defaced by the natural enemy of the book, the librarian, this is in pretty nice shape for a book that has escaped into the world at large..

Toronto & Garden City: Doubleday Canada Ltd. / Doubleday & Company Inc., 1981. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Durelle, on title page. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fraser tells the compelling story of "one of the all-time greatest contenders in the history of professional boxing -- Yvon Durelle -- the 'fighting fisherman' who brawled his way from obscurity in a remote fishing village in New Brunswick to the top of the boxing world." Mustard boards, black cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 292 pages (including appendix), illustrated. This copy inscribed and signed by Durelle, on behalf of himself and his wife, "To Dr. Jeweett (sic) a man/that will never forgotn (sic)/Yvon & Theresse (sic)." This is presumably the same Dr. Jewett of whom Theresa Durelle says, on page 224, "If it hadn't been for Dr. Jewett, I don't know where he [Durelle] would have landed," and of whom Durelle says, on page 225,… Read More

Toronto & Garden City: Doubleday Canada Ltd. / Doubleday & Company Inc., 1981. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fraser tells the compelling story of "one of the all-time greatest contenders in the history of professional boxing -- Yvon Durelle -- the "fighting fisherman" who brawled his way from obscurity in a remote fishing village in New Brunswick to the top of the boxing world." Mustard boards, black cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 292 pages (including appendix), illustrated. Mildly cocked, moderate cover soil, bumped spine ends, light corner wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/slightly faded spine, chipping/short tears to spine ends, rubbing, general wear. Dust jacket now in protective mylar sleeve..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap / G&D Book. Illus. by C.M. Relyea (frontispiece). Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Reissue of the 1903 Bobbs-Merrill edition. Decorated maroon cloth. Front cover still bright and attractive. Dusty/tanned edges, bumped corners, some wear to corner/spine ends, offsetting to end papers, scuffed/faintly soiled cloth, in dust jacket w/edgewear, chipping, uneven tear to top of front fold/right edge of front panel, 2" piece torn from top spine/left edge of front panel, other smaller pieces torn from edges, 3/4" diameter sticker shadow to front panel. A flimsy jacket to begin with, there aren't many around in collectible condition these days..

Evanston: Michael Stein, 1991. Magazine. Very Good. Magazine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on B-movie, "The Twonky," horror-film legend Rondo Hatton, Boris Karloff and Harry Cohn of Columbia Studios, and Marion Michael Morrison (that would be John Wayne, kids) and his time at Monogram, as well as a profile of Lionel Stander and interviews with Clarence "Ducky" Nash (the voice of Donald Duck), Soupy Sales and Sam Arkoff. 98 pages, illustrated. Light general wear..

Evanston: Michael Stein, 1992. Magazine. Very Good. Magazine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on Colin Clive and his torment "by his own closet monsters, repressed homosexuality and alcoholism"; Horace Liveright; "Universal's house physician of Horror," Edward Van Sloan; Helen Chandler; and Dwight Frye, as well as interviews with Jack Pierce and Dwight D. Frye. Also contains reviews of movies and filmbook literature. 98 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear..

Evanston: Michael Stein, 1993. Magazine. Very Good. Magazine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains articles on Realart, the re-releasing company; the makeup secrets of Lon Chaney, Sr.; submarine movies, and the television series Sea Hunt; articles/interviews about child star Jay North of Dennis the Menace fame; Lita Grey Chaplin about her husband, Charlie, and Ian Wolfe. 98 pages, illustrated. Slight mustiness, moderate general wear..

Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing, 1987. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 222 pages (including appendix, glossary, bibliography), illustrated. Two previous owner's stamps to half-title, light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Ottawa: Chinmaya Welcoming Committee, 1976. Book. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A souvenir publication commemorating a series of lectures on Vedanta Philosophy, given by Swami Chinmayananda ji at Carleton University in Ottawa. Contains many articles and excerpts from same by a variety of writers, from Sir Harold Nicholson to Sri Aurobindo and Mahatma Gandhi. 93 pages, illustrated. Light edgewear, foxed covers, small check mark in ink to front cover, thin scratches, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. An uncommon item..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. From the editor's preface to the 1847 edition: "The present volume contains six books of the Iliad/The previous edition comprised merely the portion that is usually read at our classical schools in this quarter, as preparatory to a collegiate course; and along with this was given the regular text, with the Digamma restored, according to the views of Richard Payne Knight. At the request, however, of many instructors, the editor has been induced to add to the present edition the fourth, fifth, and sixth books of the poem, with a commentary on precisely the same plan as the previous one; and, in order to make room for this, he has omitted the digammated text." Full leather w/gilt spine lettering on ruby background, gilt rule to spine, marbled page edges, 897 pages (including notes, metrical index, Homeric glossary, and index to the glossary) + six pages promoting other Harper titles. Scuffed/worn… Read More

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2002. Book. Illus. by photographs by Oelbaum. Very Good to Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Photographer. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Photographer Oelbaum "captures the beauty of a century-old botanical journal found in a tiny antiques shop in New England and interprets it through sumptuous duotone photography." Pale green cloth w/dark brown lettering to front cover/spine, tipped-on photograph to front cover, 96 pages (including index). Light sunning to edges, mild edgewear, thin impressions. A nice collectible copy. Uncommon signed..

Franklin Lakes: New Page Books / Career Press, 2008. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Friedman "presents intriguing data from a number of large-scale scientific UFO studies that almost no one has discussed in detail." He also takes shots at noted sf writers Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, and Arthur C. Clarke and their -- in his view -- uninformed/unscientific stances concerning unidentified flying objects. Inscribed by Friedman to previous owner, and signed on title page. Forewords by Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Dr. Bruce Maccabee. 317 pages (including bibliography, index, brief author biography), + two pages advertising other New Page books, illustrated. Uncommon signed. Moderately cocked, a couple of reading creases to spine, moderate general wear..

New York & London: Macmillan & Collier-Macmillan, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Touching upon the trials and tribulations of such porn-/obscenity-world notables as Ralph Ginzburg, Sam Roth, Allen Ginsberg and Lenny Bruce, among others, the author (from the front flap) "gives an incisive -- and lively -- view of pornography and the fantastic confusion engulfing efforts to restrain it. The book's reasoned valuation of the pros and cons of censorship is antidoctrinaire: it questions alike the stridence of the bluenoses and the extremism of self-proclaimed liberals." Green cloth w/gilt lettering, 368 pages, including acknowledgements/notes/index. Some sunning to spine tips, a hint of corner wear, in dust jacket w/slightly sunned spine, light edgewear, a bit of wear to corners/spine ends. .

New York: Forum International Ltd. Book. Various conditions. Side-stapled wraps. First Printings.. Digests. Four issues of a publication dedicated to the many aspects of relationships between consulting adults in pairs, threes, multiples, combinations, and all the things such interactions entail (a quick flip through any random issue suggests to me that I have led one boring damn life). May 1978 is VG-F w/only light general wear; September 1978 is G-VG w/small puncture to front cover over the word "Relations", 3/8" separation to bottom spine; January 1979 is VG w/light general wear; and March 1979 is About VG w/a 1/2" tear up bottom spine then extending 1/4" horizontally. Sold as a lot (no substitutions)..

New York: Forum International Ltd., 1978. Book. Illus. by Sam Patrick (cover illustration). Very Good. Side-stapled wraps. 1st printing.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Cover illustration features Elvis Presley. Contains articles on open marriage (and why it doesn't work), how mind control can cure illness, how fighting helps marriage (I suspect because it leads to a quicker end), the alleged "miracle" of ginseng root, and articles on medicine, psychology, sexuality (hey, it's published by Bob Guccione -- you thought there wouldn't be sex stuff?), and more. 114 pages, illustrated. Some rubbing, edgewear, moderate handling wear. Internally tight and clean..

New York: Bob Guccione / Forum International Limited, 1978. Magazine. Good or better. Side-stapled wraps. 1st printings.. Digests. Three issues of the popular periodical examining human relations. These volumes contain articles on how fathers affect daughters, swingers and swinging, living apart from your lover (tell me more about that), open marriage (I'm listening), arthritis, how vitamin B reduces stress, carefree sex with strangers (strangers, you say), fantasies that turn on men (how can that possibly be accurate? -- nobody asked me *anything*), cancer prevention, psychic sexuality (if it's a choice between the psychic and the physical varieties, that dust you see is what the physical left the psychic in), and letters from (I'm sure) honest-to-God readers sharing their personal and intimate stories, every word of which (I'm sure) is the pure and unadulterated truth. Or words to that effect. 114, 122 and 122 pages, respectively, illustrated. Some surface wear, a bit of creasing,… Read More

New York: Bob Guccione / Forum International Limited Magazine. All G-VG or better. Side-stapled wraps. 1st printings.. Small octavos. 4 issues dealing with human relationships, with an emphasis on the physical side of things. Contains articles on orgasms, successful treatment for arthritis, "the male's most common sex problem" (I always thought it was not getting enough, but that might just be me), "When rape is legal" (I would hope never), hooker techniques, impotence, erotic games, food addiction, long-distance marriage, erotic massage, and a whole lot of other things that the editors thought we should know. February 1977 issue: 114 pages; rubbing, minor edgewear, handling wear. February 1979 issue: 130 pages; thin cease vertically to centre of front cover, crease to bottom right corner of front cover, tiny chip to bottom edge of same area. May 1979 issue: 130 pages; light cover soil, 1" tear to top left portion of front cover. April 1989 issue: 130 pages; impressions,… Read More