Vintage Paperbacks (pre-1970) from Augustine Funnell Books

New York: Pocket 1164, 1957. Book. Illus. by N.M. Bodecker. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. First published in 1956 in hardcover by Crowell, being "The hilarious adventures of a young boy who learned the facts of love by trial and the facts of life mostly by error." 152 pages, cover illustration… Read more about this item

Montreal: Bantam A1983, 1959. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Canadian paperback printing of a title first published in hardcover in 1958 by Random House. Basis for the MGM movie of the same name, which starred David Niven, Shirley MacLaine and Gig Young. "The outrageously sophisticated story of a young girl's… Read more about this item

New York: Avon nn, Popular Library 70, Dell 747, Dell 851, Berkley G-145 Book. Reading copies (Fair to Good). Paperbacks. 1sts thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Five stories of money, mystery, murder, and a whole bunch of other words that don't start with "m". The Biggers title features Charlie Chan, the Freeman gives us Dr. Thorndyke,… Read more about this item

London: Pan Books G645, 1963. Book. Illus. by W.F. Phillipps (cover illustration). Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Contains six "Disturbing tales of worlds half-glimpsed but never fully seen, by a master of the weird and the malevolent." Stories include the title piece, "A Psychical Invasion," "The Old Man of Visions," "The South… Read more about this item

New York: Avon 74, Dell F67, Pocket 216, Popular Library 303, Cardinal C-157 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. In addition to the title story, the Lewis book contains "The Willow Walk," "A Letter From the Queen," "The Hack Driver," "Go East, Young Man," "Moths in the Arc Light," and "Young Man… Read more about this item

Toronto: Collins White Circle CD 372, 1948. Book. Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. When an "aristocratic, attractive, sophisticated" man becomes interested in a young woman who is "loyal, wise and true," her lovely cousin, "whose little claws could snatch and cling," provides more than a little competition. 192 pages. Mildly cocked, light… Read more about this item

Toronto: Collins White Circle 60, 1943. Book. Near Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pseudonym of Edwy Searles Brooks. A Norman Conquest wartime adventure, this one following his adventures as "he succeeds in getting in and out of a German prison camp and brings back priceless information." 192 pages. Moderately cocked,… Read more about this item

Hammondsworth: Penguin 1105, 1955. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pseudonym of Lucy Beatrice Malleson. The 16th Detective Arthur Crook title, telling the story of a murder victim feared and hated by all who knew him, and whose death results in nothing close to sadness or remorse. 219 pages… Read more about this item

Toronto: Harlequin 132, 1951. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. When "a biographer of unusual women" digs into the past of a woman found "dead in a strange automobile accident," he uncovers the years "which marked her vivid transition from adolescent slut and consort of Chicago hoodlums to Hollywood tramp, from wily strip-teaser… Read more about this item

Toronto: Harlequin 64, 1950. Book. Good. Paperback. 1st Harlequin edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. First published in hardcover in 1942 under the title "The X-Ray Murders'. Introduces Wood Jaxon, a detective "with an undeniable appetite for food, drink, big fees, action and good looking women" (it's astounding how few detectives are looking for repulsive-looking women, or,… Read more about this item

New York: Perma M 5027, 1960. Book. Illus. by Art Cumings. Fair. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. "The amazing careers of the most spectacular impostor of modern times," being the story of Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr., who, at various times, impersonated a civil engineer, a hospital orderly, a monk of the Trappiist variety, a sheriff's… Read more about this item

Toronto & Winnipeg: Harlequin 324, 1955. Book. Illus. by Paul Anna Soik (cover illustration). Good. Paperback. 1st Harlequin edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. "She believed in these people, loved going among the poor derelicts [as opposed to those wealthy derelicts about whom we read so much] of the slums helping where she could, scolding, encouraging, heartening and… Read more about this item

Zenith nn, Starbooks nn, Red Seal/Gold Medal 14, Paperback Library 53-640, Crest 179 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. 1sts thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A 5-item lot of mystery/suspense/thriller titles featuring, in order: a "woman-prone" fellow who is also "a misfit, a man without a future" plunged "into a life which combines sybaritic luxury and hair-trigger… Read more about this item

Perma M4102, Pocket 1237, Dell 353, Dell LC113, Dell D136 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. 1sts thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. From the African frontier to the harems of Tartary we have five stories of rogues, honourable men, skinhounds and a variety of other bucklers of swash and facilitators of passion, with a generous helping of wanton… Read more about this item

Toronto: News Stand Library R03, 1948. Book. Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Here, boys and girls, in this 2nd printing of the paperback original, set "Against a background of Mexico's hills and deserts and simple villagers," we have "Love, passion, cruelty and ignorance" all mixed up with "a lusty patchwork of passion, murder and… Read more about this item

Chicago: Merit Book 684 / Camerarts Publishing, 1963. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Paperback original. The back cover informs us that "The negligee was artfully fashioned to conceal much of the near-naked flesh beneath, yet with each sinuous movement of her body, it revealed flashing glimpses of the beauty… Read more about this item

New York: Ace Star K-287, 1967. Book. Illus. by Bob Schinella (cover illustration). Very Good to Fine. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The third Inspector Finch gothic mystery, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1955 (the date on the copyright page, but incorrect for this paperback edition), When her husband dies in an… Read more about this item

London: Sphere 42684, 1969. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Paperback original. Assigned to cover the career of Hollywood horror star Paul Toombs, a young British television reporter finds himself enmeshed in a macabre orgy of black magic and psychopathic brutality. Three women die in hideous circumstances before vigilantes destroy the… Read more about this item

London: Puffin 177 / Penguin, 1962. Book. Illus. by William Stobbs. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two schoolboys are transported into the year 3000 when civilization has ended, and Britain "has been ravaged by a vast explosion, and its people appear to have reverted to a primitive life." 159 pages. Moderate… Read more about this item

Toronto: Popular Library K61, 1963. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Canadian printing of a title first published in hardcover in 1954 by W.W. Norton. In 1944, eight of a B-24 Liberator bomber's 10-man crew were forced to bail out when their plane was damaged during a mission (the other two men… Read more about this item