Search Results: Titles starting with I from Augustine Funnell Books

Bar Harbor: Acadia Publishing Company, 1997. Book. Illus. by Lisa Turner (cover illustration). Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Historical fiction based on the life and times of William Eaton, the Barbary General. Turner has signed this copy on title page. 246 pages (including bibliography), illustrated. Moderate general wear. An unread copy, internally tight and clean..

New York: Vantage Press, 2000. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 1st English-language edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fiction based on the author's experiences, this tells the story of a young Jewish boy who, after his parents are exiled to prison camps, ends up in a Children's Receptor-Distributor, which is an orphanage more closely resembling a juvenile prison, and where acts of degradation and physical and mental cruelty are the norm. Originally published in the Moscow magazine. 271 pages. Moderate general wear. .

New York: Bantam T7583, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 138 pages. Mild slant, scuffing to covers, mild edgewear, light tanning. Internally tight and clean..

New York: Belmont/Tower 40137, 1972. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Canadian printing. "The intimate, explicit story of a sensuous woman's sexual self-realization." 172 pages + four pages advertising other Belmont/Tower publications. Crease to top right corner of front cover, impressions/thin scratches, light surface wear. Internally tight and clean..

Berkley 02387, 1973. Book. Good. Paperback. 1st Berkley edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Originally published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 1972. The highly fictionalized autobiography of a lusty artist whose real-life painting of his mother is one of the best-known in history. Rubbing, thin reading crease, impressions, sunned spine, date stamp to top edge, tanning. Internally tight. .

Don Mills: Longmans, 1969. Book. About Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. One of the best centres in NHL history tells his story, from his birth in the Slovak Republic until about the mid-point of his career as a member of the Chicago Black Hawks (that was how it was spelled back then, so don't be sending me any letters -- oh, wait, nobody knows what a letter is any more). Mikita, with Glenn Hall and Bobby Hull, led the Hawks to the Stanley Cup in 1961. Brick cloth w/black spine lettering, 223 pages. Top corners bumped/crinkled, gently bumped spine ends, a few turned page tips, in rubbed dust jacket w/some impressions, edgewear, edge tears, subsequent creases, chipping to corners, small ink x to Y of "My" in title, ugly triangular tear to top spine (stretches down about an inch and a half). Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve to protect against further damage..

New York: Carleton Press / Hearthstone, 1970. Book. Illus. by Charles Mazarakes (dust jacket illustration). About Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Small octavo. Smith presents "a simple, moving, eloquently restrained biography of her son, Sergeant E. Wayne Smith, who was killed in Vietnam in October 1968." Blue cloth w/black spine lettering, 93 pages, illustrated. Mildly cocked, dusty/lightly foxed edges, light edgewear, previous owners named magic-markered out at top of front end paper, faint foxing to endpapers, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/short tears along spine sides, light chipping to corners/spine ends, light foxing. Jacket now in protective mylar sleeve..

Toronto & Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1982. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A Governor-General's Award-winning 12th book of poetry. 95 pages. Bumped top spine, impressions/scratches, surface wear to back cover, light tanning. Internally tight..

Toronto: Viking/Penguin, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A book about the greatness of hockey. Russell travelled across Canada searching out "those people whose devotion to the game epitomizes what's best about it, whose passion for the game fuels our own, whose pure and simple love of the game makes possible everything that is truly great about it." Charcoal boards w/gilt spine lettering, 334 pages, illustrated. Light wear to corners/spine ends, a hint of cocking, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/light rubbing, mild surface wear..

Port Coquitlam: Privately published, 1978. Book. Illus. by Charles R. Hughes, Jack M. Heitz, and Reginald Guest, with photography by Stephan Mirsky. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A play with song lyrics by Gloria Jean Hughes, poetry by Jack M. Heitz, and photography by Stephan Mirsky. Uncommon. 36 pages, Moderately soiled covers, corner wear, moderate handling wear..

Montreal & London: McGill-Queen's University Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "Since the Romantic revolt, the interest of Western artists in the irrational and the psychological has often centred on a self-conscious exploration of subjective emotions. Increasingly, the witer has come to see the problem of art as how best to embody the tensions, concerns, and insights which he finds in his psychic self. It is Professor Gose's contention that some of the major English novelists of the nineteenth century found their solutions to this problem in adapting literary forms which predate Romanticism. Even before the end of the eighteenth century, the gothic novelists were beginning to discover intuitively that image patterns, expressive settings, and melodramatic plots offered more scope for self-expression than did the Augustan ideal of a representational and normative picture of human character and action." Examines some of the works of such… Read More

Aylesbury: G.T. de Fraine & Co. Ltd., 1923. Book. About Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. As the sub-title suggests, a fond look at various aspects of rural Buckinghamshire, including its moats, water-mills and windmills, barns, duck decoys, cottages, and much else. Grey cloth w/black scythe illustration, cream cloth backstrip, 129 pages + index (four pages), four maps (three in-text, 1 frontispiece fold-out), illustrated. Slight warp, tanned/foxed edges, previous owner's bookplate attached to front pastedown, off-setting to end papers, light tanning..

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick, 1988. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hawkes provides information on the "men and women who taught in the parish schools" from 1818-37, dividing his information into three sections: an introduction; a list of the teachers, with brief notes; and a small collection of found poems. This copy bears a sincere inscription to a previous owner: "With profound gratitude/for all your labour to/see this in print,/Robert Hawkes/Oct. 30/89." 84 pages (including bibliography). Light surface/handling wear. Uncommon..

Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 1988. Book. New. Paperback. 1st paperback edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 120 pages (including appendix, further reading, index), one portrait, two maps. An unread copy. .

Newmarket: Privately published, 2013. Book. Illus. by Anthony Ventura (cover illustration). Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Oblong 4to. Playter presents brief histories of three businesses important to the commercial growth of the town of Newmarket, Ontario: William Cane & Sons Manufacturing, Office Specialty Manufacturing, and Davis Leather Company. Foreword (misspelled as "foreward") by Dan MacPherson. Black cloth, 20 pages, illustrated. A gently bumped corner, gently bumped spine ends, light scuffing, in dust jacket w/a bit of scuffing/thin scratching. A nice copy of an uncommon item..

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A study of the work of the 12th-century philosopher Moses Maimonides. "Fox offers a general approach to reading Maimonides' philosophy and more specific reconsiderations of his ethical, metaphysical, and religious thought." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 356 pages (including index). Gently bumped corners/spine ends, tiny ink mark to top edge in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, thin scratch to bottom right corner of front panel..

Cambridge: South End Press, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Canadian printing. A collection of essays calling for an end to sanctions against Iraq. "We think the price is worth it." -- Madeleine Albright, when asked if the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children due to the sanctions could be justified. Essayists include Ali Abunimah, Dr. Huda S. Ammash, Anthony Arnove, Naseer Aruri, Barbara Nimri Aziz, David Barsamian, Phyllis Bennis, George Capaccio, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Denis J. Halliday, Kathy Kelly, Rania Masri, Dr. Peter L. Pellett, John Pilger, Sharon Smith, Voices in the Wilderness, and Howard Zinn. Charcoal cloth, 216 pages (including index), illustrated. Lacking dust jacket. An unread copy..

Kilkenny: SocSci Consultancy, 2002. Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "Special edition/A celebration of foster care." Contributors include the editors, Rosemary Horgan, Valerie O'Brien, Frank Keating, Deborah Browne, Marie Cregan, Jill Kennedy, Mary Payne & Elizabeth Murphy, Thom Garfat, Pol Nacha O'Mairthini, David Ssedyabule, Nicole Breeze & Marge Campbell & Zeena Elton, Tommy Turner, Linda Doherty, Jean Kennedy and Christine Deady. 193 pages. Publisher's stamp to inside back cover, light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Kilkenny: SocSci Consultancy Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Octavos -- from 7.75" to 9.75" tall. 1999, 2000, 2001. The three issues comprising the second volume of this important journal. Contributors include Eileen O'Neill, Roland Tormey, John S.G. Wells, Shane A. Dunphy, Pat McGarthy and Dermot Duffy (the latter uncredited), Paul Bailey, and Damien Courtney (No. 1); the editor, John S.G. Wells, Anita Crowdle, Michelle Norris & Noreen Kearns, Abbey Hyde, Hilary Jenkinson, Jackie O'Toole, Catherine Forde, Stefan Kunz, Francis Douglas & Mary Horgan, and James G. Deegan (No. 2); the editor, J.S.G. Wells, John McLaughlin, Marina Monteith & Helga Sneddon, Billy McCullough & Trevor Spratt & Felicity Hasson, David Williams, Ian O'Donnell, Deirdre Horgan, Keith Munro, Eamonn Carr, and Mary Raftery & Eoin O'Sullivan (No. 3). Digests, stiff card wraps, 149, 232 & 160 pages, respectively. All three volumes w/rubbing, thin scratches, moderate handling… Read More

Kilkenny: SocSci Consultancy, 1998. Journal. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first issue of a publication which aims to "promote good practice in social care, to exchange national and international information and to act as a fulcrum for such exchange." Contributors to this issue include the editor, Francis Douglas, Mary Horgan, Kevin Lalor, Aine de Roiste, Paul Bailey, and Paul O'Callaghan. 107 pages. Rubbing, thin scratches, publisher's stamp to inside back cover, light general wear. Internally tight and clean..