Titles starting with L from Augustine Funnell Books

Scranton: International Textbook Company, International Correspondence Schools/I.C.S., 1911. #1292. An uncommon item issued by the I.C.S. home study course. 36 pages + 2 pages of examination questions, illustrated w/colour and b&w drawings. Key to the Colour Plates page bound in at front. A couple of abrasions to back cover, moderate handling wear. (C/BR). First Edition. Wraps. Good. Small octavos -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... (more information)

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Fredericton: Broken Jaw Press, 1994. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. A collection of eighteen essays from a guy whose list of awards might have filled as many pages as the actual essays (well, okay, it wouldn't, but he was won a lot of 'em). Unfortunately, this publication is very poorly proofread and is rife with typos, providing more than a little aggravation to any reader who likes his words spelled correctly. 106 pages, cover illustration by William Forrestall. Thin crease to bottom rig... (more information)

Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian;

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London: Victor Gollancz. 1996/1997/1998; fantasy; "Lady in Gil" dj by Terry Pastor, "Scion's Lady" and "Lady Pain" djs by Steve Crisp; Volume 1: F in NF dj w/a few thin impressions/scratches; Volume 2: NF w/1" long thin red line on bottom edge, in VG dj w/some rubbing, moderate edgewear, impressions; Volume 3: F in VG dj w/some rubbing, impressions, moderate edgewear; all three volumes unread;. First Editions. Hard Covers. Octavos -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall.... (more information)

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LondonLondon: Victor Gollancz. Hard Covers. First Editions. Octavos--from 7¾" to 9¾" tall. fantasy; "Lady in Gil" dj by Terry Pastor, "Scion's Lady" and "Lady Pain" djs by Steve Crisp; Volume 1: F in F- dj w/a hint of general wear; Volume 2: F in VG dj w/some rubbing, moderate edgewear, impressions; Volume 3: F in VG dj w/some rubbing, impressions, moderate edgewear; all three volumes unread;. ... (more information)

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Hamburg: Fischer Bucherei 490. text in German; moderate general wear;. ... (more information)

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Vancouver: Vancouver Community Press/VCP, 1972. No. 12 in the Vancouver Community Press Writing Series. 82 pages. Light edgewear, some wear to bottom right corner, scuffed wraps, moderate general wear.. First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. Very Good. Quarto -- from 9.75" to 12" tall. ... (more information)

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Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. A collection of geographical papers and extracts representing "the changing emphases in Sauer’s nearly fifty years of research." Octavo, hardcover in peach and sand cloth w/black spine lettering, 435 pages (including index), fold-out map, tipped-in frontispiece photograph. Previous owner's name/address magic-markered out on front pastedown, two-thirds of front end paper removed (vertically), previous owner's name/nota... (more information)

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New York: Doubleday, 1989. Originally published in Australia in 1987. After a wild storm leaves hordes of dead and injured birds in its wake, a young girl and her grandfather move the survivors into their boathouse for the night, but in the middle of the night the girl is awakened by voices she soon discovers are the language of the birds, a language she can suddenly understand. Illustrated boards, 66 pages (including brief author biography). A nice copy. A word about my grading: Fine -- or, sometimes, As... (more information)

Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / General;

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/Scribner, 1916. The eleventh volume in the publisher's multi-volume set, 'The Works of Gilbert Parker.' Brown cloth w/gilt floral decoration/rule to front cover, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, 344 pages, frontispiece. Some spine sunning, mild general wear. A nice copy.. Imperial edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1967. A collection of eleven essays from scholars concerned with "providing a fuller understanding and appreciation of 'Paradise Lost' through insight into the characteristics of its language." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 371 pages (including Selected References on Milton's Language and Style). Bumped spine ends, a bit of slant, previous owner's name on front free end paper, in rubbed dust jacket, light chipping to corners/spine end... (more information)

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Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 1993. "A sampling of provocative insights and useful predications" from the author’s syndicated "Dr. Tomorrow" newspaper column. Comes with BookDisk in plastic pocket attached to rear pastedown. This copy signed by Ogden, on half-title. Black boards, 212 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... (more information)

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Gold Medal 909, 1959. Paperback original. On the night before she is to head off to prison for murder, a virginal young babe decides that she can't wait any longer for love, so she settles for something better: sex. 140 pages. Slight spine roll, light general wear. A nice copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Duodecimo -- from 6.75" to 7.75" tall. ... (more information)

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LondonLondon: Michael Joseph, 1980. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Octavo--from 7¾" to 9¾" tall. in 1979 an erstwhile leader of England's Liberal Party and member of Her Majesty's Privy Council "was charged with conspiracy to murder a former male model who claimed to have had a homosexual relationship with him."; this is Waugh's account of the controversial and sensational trial, an event he followed from the beginning; black cloth, 240 pgs., il... (more information)

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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. originally published in Germany, in 1990, before being revised, expanded and translated by the author for this edition; "In this playfully serious investigation based on factual accounts, anecdotes, literary works, and films, Karl S. Guthke explores the cultural importance of those words spoken at the border between this world and the next. The exit lines of both famous and ordinary people embody a sense of drama and truthfulness that fulfills a widespread p... (more information)

Subjects: EDUCATION / History; HISTORY / General;

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London & Edinburgh: T. Nelson & Sons. No date (1920). A historical novel set in England from 1688 to 1705. Red cloth w/titles/decoration/rule in blind to front cover, gilt decoration/lettering to spine, 573 pages, dust jacket w/tipped-on colour illustration to front panel, frontispiece illustration. Dusty/tanned top edge, lightly sunned spine, off-setting/foxing to endpapers, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/moderately sun-darkened spine, 1/4" tear to bottom edge of rear panel. The dust ja... (more information)

Subjects: FICTION / General;

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New YorkR. Worthington. comprising 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers' and 'Miscellaneous Poems,' with an Appendix ('Examination of the Statements in Mr. Macaulay's History of England, Regarding John Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee'); decorated blue cloth, gilt spine lettering and decorations, 230 pgs.; moderate fraying to corners/spine ends, some slant, dusty/tanned edges, some soil to top edge, some soil to back cover, minor wrinkling to cloth at upper right corner of f... (more information)

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New York: Cupples & Leon, 1934. The first title in Snell's Northwest Series. Front flap lists to ninth title. Orange cloth w/black lettering to front cover/spine, 203 pages, frontispiece. Bumped corners, a couple of tiny soil marks to front cover, tanned edges, previous owner's name in pencil to first end paper, in edgeworn dust jacket w/short tears/chipping, lightly sunned spine, Notice of Price Change stamp to back cover (with prices subsequently blacked out). Jacket in protective mylar sl... (more information)

Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / General;

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Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1998. a National Business Book Award nominee; suggesting that the vast majority of the technology we will use in the next twenty years has yet to be invented, the author details how to create markets for products and services, how to adequately design systems structures for growth, how to attract and keep the best employees, and so on; on page 1 the author insists that the reader damage the book by ripping out that particular page, then on page 3 suggests that the book now totally... (more information)

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York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 1990. "Casting a critical but sympathetic eye over Crowley's writings, the author reveals a man of enormous and original intellectual gifts, whose contributions to the understanding of the occult sciences are matched only by his daring experiments in the development of human consciousness." 229 pages, illustrated. Original price sticker to top right corner of front cover, light edge soil, a bit of corner wear, moderate general wear. Internally tight.. 2nd thus. St... (more information)

Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General;

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976. 95 pages (including Glossary of Beothuck Words).. Stiff Card Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Jon Fraser. Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall. ... (more information)

Subjects: EDUCATION / History; HISTORY / General;

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