Titles starting with H from Augustine Funnell Books

Baltimore: The Mirage Press, 1973. Literary criticism. From the front flap: "Whether Wells was writing about technical or social prediction, or science fiction, his underlying theme was that of progress. This book deals with Wells' dynamic critique of progress, accomplished by means of a detailed analysis of the books Wells wrote." One of only fifteen hundred copies. Black cloth, 162 pages (including Index), wraparound dust jacket illustration by Greg Bear. An ex-Legislative Library of N... more information

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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. A man anxious to have his name cleared learns that the one man who can do it is dead only five hours after their first meeting in years. Dust jacket illustration by Sev Jonassen. Tanned/dusty/lightly soiled edges, a bit of slant. Edgeworn dust jacket w/some sunning to spine, numerous short tears, chipping, impressions/flaking, small ink scribble to bottom edge of rear panel, faint soil to rear panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/Fair to Good. Smal... more information

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1991. The true story of a bride who leapt to her death in the ancient city of Fez, Morocco, after the question of her virginity came into dispute. The author/photographer interviewed the dead woman's closest relatives, and tells his surreal story partially in novel form, partially as a diary, and partially through photographs, a feat which won him the City of Paris/Kodak-Pathe Foundation First Photo Book Award. Introduction by Paul Bowles. Orange cloth w/purple cloth bac... more information

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Toronto: HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins, 1998. A story of murder, betrayal, multiple identities and ruthless ambition, all surrounding a Canadian financier "who disappeared without a trace in 1990 along with millions of dollars of investors' money--and his 15-year-old daughter, Sheena. Years later they are discovered living togther as man and wife along with two small children in a small English village." Tan boards, 290 pages, illustrated. Tiny remainder mark to bottom edge. An unre... more information

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Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1973. The author, a Sometime Senior Advisor at the United Nations, attempts "to bring home to translators the danger of falling into a dull routine and the need for keeping the mind fresh and alert." Each leaf of text followed by a blank leaf intended for Notes. Red cloth w/black lettering to front cover/spine, 66 pages (not including blank leaves). Previous owner's signature to top edge of front end paper, moderate general wear (Notes pages unused). Lacking dust ... more information

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Macfadden 60-121, 1963. from selecting the right boat to learning the rules of courtesy and safety to reading charts and channel markers and other aids to navigation, the author offers "A practical guide to everything the pleasure-boat skipper needs to know."; 127 pgs. incl. Glossary, illustrated; reading crease, corner creasing, pinhole to middle of front cover, tanning; internally tight and clean;. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75". ... more information

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New YorkMcGraw-Hill Book Company. in 1931, record-breaking track athlete Roger Arnett was on his way to a meet when a car accident left him a paraplegic in a time when paraplegia was not well understood, and meant endless battles with infections and other ailments; this is his story, from his marriage to a polio sufferer and their adoption of three children, to cultivating and cross-breeding prize-winning varieties of gladioli, to his ministry to bring hope and assistance to the physically disabled; this co... more information

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New YorkPocket Books/Simon & Schuster. author's first novel, detailing the comic misadventures of a home handyman who, among other things, gets arrested while trying to break into his own home, mistakes a holy man's ashes for cement, and caps a neighbour's garden gnomes with a nail gun (that last one sounds more like a public service than a misadventure); dj illustration by Tom McKeveny; short remainder line to bottom edge; a nice copy, unread;. ... more information

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Pocket Books of Canada 272, 1945. Cdn. printing; a collection of nine stories featuring crime fiction's most elegant adventurer; this copy a bit of a printing curiosity, with two front free end papers with list of Pocket Best Sellers on reverse bound in at front; edgewear, handling creasing, tanning, general wear;. 1st Pocket edition. Paperback. Fair. Sextodecimo -- from 5.75" to 6.75". ... more information

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Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, 1953. Blue cloth w/silver lettering, RCAF crest blind-stamped to front cover, 103 pages, illustrated. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name/date to top right corner of front end paper, in dust jacket w/chipping to corners/spine ends/edges, tape repairs, previous owner's name/date to top right corner of front flap, general wear.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Duodecimo -- from 6.75" to 7.75" tall. ... more information

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1974. The "Balls For Women" issue. First issue of what was billed as, "The New American Humor Magazine," and an attempt to cash in on the unqualified success of 'National Lampoon' (this just in: it didn't). Contributors included artists Gail Burwen, Peter Bramley, Jim Ceribello, Howard Chaykin, Cloud Studio, Tom Hachtman, Jay Lynch and Gerald Wise. The writers were Melvyn Chase, Jeffrey Coloper, Roger Director, Les Ericson, Gene Holstun, Sandy Landsman, Dennis Lennon, Chri... more information

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1974. The "Balls For Women" issue. First issue of what was billed as "The New American Humor Magazine," and an attempt to cash in on the unqualified success of 'National Lampoon' (this just in: it didn't). Contributors included artists Gail Burwen, Peter Bramley, Jim Ceribello, Howard Chaykin, Cloud Studio, Tom Hachtman, Jay Lynch and Gerald Wise. The writers were Melvyn Chase, Jeffrey Coloper, Roger Director, Les Ericson, Gene Holstun, Sandy Landsman, Dennis Lennon, Chris Ru... more information

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London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1954. A Spanish-language collection of verse originally published in 1953. With selections "from the early Romances, the Renaissance, the drama of the Golden Age, the Romantics, and the exponents of Modernismo and Post Modernismo," the editor presents "a careful and representative selection which has been drawn from the whole field of Spanish poetry from the 12th Century to the present day." The editor contributes a 60+ page Introduction, "written... more information

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Camden East: Camden House Publishing, 1978. included are a wide variety of articles of interest to the self-reliant whose concerns are country living, alternative energy, gardening, and so on; topics including buying a farm, hunting wild mushrooms, raising sheep, making soap, beekeeping, heating with wood, and much else; burgundy leatherette w/gilt lettering/design, 287 pgs. incl. Index, illustrated w/colour and b&w photographs and drawings; subscription page intact at rear; dj illustration by Roger Hil... more information

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Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. The poet-critic author "examines four stages in the development of a purely Canadian tradition in poetry through a focus on the work of major poets writing in English from the mid-19th century to the present." Poets considered are Lampman, Carman, Roberts, Scott, Pratt, Birney, Layton, Klein, Avison, Purdy, Atwood, Cohen and others. Blue-grey cloth, 184 pages (including Index). Rubbed dust jacket w/moderate corner/spine end wear, some scratching,... more information

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London: Constable, 1954. Dean takes an entertaining and informative look at forty English libel cases which "range in quality from the momentous to the absurd [and] exhibit human nature in every posture and disguise." Dust jacket illustration by Bip Pares. Maroon cloth, 271 pages (including Notes/Acknowledgments/Index). Tanned pages, previous owner's name/date on front free end paper. Price-clipped dust jacket w/light corner wear, 3/4" tear to top edge of rear panel.. 2nd edition. Har... more information

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No Place: Canadian Pacific Railway Company, New Brunswick District. No place (circa 1921). Lists engine numbers, class and type of engine, driver size, engine capacity, and the approximate light weight. Also contains general instructions, as well as haulage capacity for the Brownsville Division, which included the Fredericton and Saint John sub-divisions, and the Woodstock Division, which included the St. Stephen and Edmundston sub-divisions. The information became effective on Jaunary 1, 1922. Cloth ba... more information

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Ottawa: The Mortimer Company. Circa 1933. Volume III in the publisher's 'Railroad Scouts Series.' Pictorial boards, 136 pages + 2-page ad for other titles in the series, + 2 pages of ads (1 for ammunition, 1 for canoes), 4 illustrations. Wear to corners, moderate chipping to spine ends, shallow impressions, some dampstaining to moderately sunned (entirely legible) spine, tanned/moderately soile edges. Fortunately, no previous owner's name or notations. A very scarce book in any condition, a... more information

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Picador 24829 / Pan Books, 1976. In 1902 a pair of professional killers have to kill a monster that lives in a Victorian mansion in the Dead Hills of Eastern Oregon. This is about as close to a traditional duster as a lobbyist is to integrity, and in Brautigan's inimitable style, eight times more entitled to exist. 142 pages, cover illustration by James Barry Woods. Edgewear, sticker pull to top right corner of front cover, rubbing, impressions, tanning. Internlly tight.. 1st Picador edition. Stiff ... more information

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Alton: KOS Publishing, 2002. From the back cover: "Scientific evidence proves that those chemicals designed to kill germs, cockroaches, and potato blight are -- in fact -- killing us. All living things share DNA, that vulnerable stuff of Life itself. What we do unto even the least of living things on this planet, we quite literally do to ourselves as well. But human beings, unlike cockroaches, don't roll over and just die. Our more complex bodies mount huge defenses and succumb by getting sick... more information

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