Authors starting with H from Augustine Funnell Books

Ottawa: F.A. Acland, 1926. Mines Branch publication No. 641, the result of an undertaking intended to determine whether peat might be used as "an auxiliary source of fuel supply, especially in the central provinces of Ontario and Quebec, where shortage of domestic supplies of fuel was most keenly felt." 298 pages (including Appendices), illustrated. A bit of spine roll, minor edgewear, some cover soil. (C/BT). Stiff Card Wraps. Good to Very Good. Small Quarto -- from 9¾" to 12" ta... more information

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Crest s207, 1958. Canadian printing. A novel set during the grim times of the American Occupation of Germany, and originally published in Germany in 1957. Cover illustration by the talented Barye Phillips. Rubbing, reading crease, wear to spine ends/bottom right corner of front cover, previous owner's plate to inside front cover, diagonal crease to bottom left portion of back cover. (A word about our grading: Fine -- or, sometimes, As New -- is our highest grade, and it's down from there. There ... more information

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Signet D2492, 1964. When a citizens' committee decrees that a professor's book is obscene, suspicion and fear result in a bitter trial. Slant/roll, some spotting to front cover, general wear.. 1st Signet edition. Paperback. Good to Very Good. Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75". ... more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. set in a naval college and featuring a man listed as the sole survivor of a ship torpedoed in 1914, but suspected by some staff members of being an imposter; dj by C.E. Turner; lightly dusted edges, previous owner's name/date; dj w/edgewear, chipping/short tears to corners, small sticker shadow to top of front panel, bottom corners of flaps clipped, 1" tear to left spine edge which cuts vertically across spine for another 1", small chip from bottom edge of... more information

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Fontana 1484, 1967. weirdness in prose, picture and poetry, featuring the work of such distinguished and diverse talents as Samuel Warren, T.F. Powys, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Edgar Allan Poe, Angus Wilson, Ray Bradbury, John Lennon, John Wyndham, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and others; previous owner's signature/date/code number on first end paper, spine roll, rubbing, impressions, thin strip of finish on back cover scraped off, moderate edgewear;. 1st Fontana edition. Paperb... more information

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Berkley G466. Cdn.; originally published in hardcover, in 1958, by Viking; a machine is the perfect political candidate, infallible and honest; minor spine roll, soil to rear cover, light wear;. ... more information

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Fontana 511, 1961. The story of a Polish woman who, when the Russians invaded her country during the Second World War, demanded to be sent to Siberia so that she would not be separated from her mother. 127 pages. Some spine slant, sticker pull to bottom right corner of front cover, tanning, light general wear.. 1st Fontana edition. Paperback. Good to Very Good. Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75". ... more information

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Dell First Edition B160, 1960. In Paris, two separate love triangles are about to involve their various participants in each other's lives, to the detriment of them all. "They murdered to belong to each other--but killed their love with the deed." Translated from the French by Phyllis Johnson. Tie-in for the movie starring Orson Welles, Juliette Greco, and Bradford Dillman. Cover by Tom Miller. Rubbing, impressions, some fading/dampstaining to edges, general wear.. 1st Delacorte edition. ... more information

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London: Saqi Books, 1988. Arabic-language text. From the front flap: "Designed for the English-speaking student, this reader brings together the Arabic texts of eleven of the best modern Arabic short stories. Each is preceded by an introduction in English, containing biographical information about the author and a critical analysis designed to encourage the student to make a literary response to the story, rather than regarding It as an anthropological curiosity or a linguistic conundrum. Notes exp... more information

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Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1961. refused enlistment to the Navy because they were underage, the author and a friend were taken on a Pacific whaling ship, and this is the account of their experiences; blue cloth, 194 pgs., illustrated end papers; scraped top corner of back cover, a hint of wear; rubbed dj w/moderate edgewear, moderate general wear;. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... more information

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New York: Street & Smith. No date (circa 1900). No. 108 from the publisher's Select Library series, this one an adventure classic featuring the further doings of Allan Quatermain. The publisher has misspelled the title character's name as "Quartermain" on the front cover, the spine, and throughout the text of the book, but gets it right in the list of Select Library titles and on the title page. A fragile and quite scarce pulp edition of this title. Chipping to bottom spine, spine edg... more information

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Ballantine X 733. Paperback. Very Good. the classic adventure novel of three white men who challenge the Dark Continent in order to find the treasures of a lost race; fading to corner stain, previous owner's name;. Paperback. Very Good. Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75". ... more information

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London: Collins. No date. Title page and copyright page list 1962 as a publication date, but front flap of dust jacket bears statement of 1964 award. "This is a story about the Indian tribes in British Columbia who hunted the giant whales of the Pacific." Green cloth w/silver spine lettering, 184 pages, illustrated by Mary Weiler. Dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Small Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... more information

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959. The story of a doctor's struggle to resurrect a declining hospital in the face of the absolute tyranny exhibited by a once-brilliant pathologist. Dust jacket illustration by Richard Powers. Some slant, dusty/tanned edges, moderate corner/spine end wear, Christmas gift notation to previous owner, small bookseller's tag to bottom edge of front free end paper. Price-clipped dust jacket w/some sunning to spine, chipping/short tears to spine ends/corners, sm... more information

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London: Collins, 1981. a family saga of the 1800s, set in an English village and taking place over the course of a sixty-year period, "in a world of the thrusting, thriving, nineteenth-century middle class"; dj illustration by Val Biro; blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 572 pgs.; light wear to corners/spine ends, small Collins sticker to front free end paper; rubbed dj w/thin scratches, mild general wear;. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good to Fine/Very Good to Fine. Octavo -- from 7.75"... more information

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London: Magpie Books/Constable & Robinson, 2005. True crime. Haining presents "a comprehensive study of the terrible phenomenon of the human flesh eater." Covers such cases as Armin Meiwes, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, Daniel and Manuela Ruda, Issei Sagawa, and many others. 334 pages. Light surface wear, small soil mark to the bottom of page 32 (does not affect text), a hint of smoky aroma.. 1st Magpie edition. Stiff Card Wraps. Very Good. Small Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... more information

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Signet Y5568. Cdn.; 24 stories by such luminaries as Sir Winston Churchill, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Forester, Greene, Amis, Lewis, Faulkner, Chandler, Steinbeck, Capote, Burroughs, Updike, and many others; Foreword by Kingsley Amis; thin reading crease and light edgewear;. ... more information

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Belmont B75-2125. Cdn.; stories by Aldiss, Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Heinlein, Leinster, Sheckley, Sturgeon; cover by Bill Duca; previous owner's signature and date, light spine sunning, light edgewear;. ... more information

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Sphere 42617, 1971. a collection of 22 stories of Irish fantasy, both from those who boast Irish blood, and those who were drawn to the supernatural; ghosts, demons, fairies, leprechauns, witches, banshees and spirits, from W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Daniel Defoe, James Joyce, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.P. Lovecraft, Francis Marion Crawford, Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson, Ray Bradbury, and many others; Foreword by Bradbury; moderate edgewear, small nick to bottom spine end, black remainder stripe across bott... more information

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Four Square 1423/New English Library/NEL, 1965. A collection of fourteen stories by Frederick Marryat, Edgar Allan Poe (2), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Ambrose Bierce (2), Bram Stoker, Guy de Maupassant (2), Henry Slesar, Arthur Porges, Edogawa Rampo (misspelled as Rompo on back cover) (2). 189 pages. Rubbing, some edgewear, mild slant, impressions, tanning. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75". ... more information

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