Search Results: Authors starting with M from Augustine Funnell Books

Lockeport: Roseway Publishing, 2002. Book. Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's first book of poetry after a number of chapbook publications. Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, and winner of the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award for best poetry title. This copy signed by Mac, on title page. 96 pages (including acknowledgements). An unread copy. .

privately published, 1975. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The history of a small Prince Edward Island church which no longer exists, but which lives on nonetheless in bits and pieces alloted to uses in other buildings. 64 pages, illustrated. A bit of general wear..

Fredericton: Broken Jaw Press, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The title and sub-title pretty much cover it. Among the miscreants who were incarcerated were serial killer Allan Legere, Henry More Smith (better known as The Lunar Rogue), and a pair of Colombian drug merchants (Jose Ali Galondo-Escobar and Fernando Augusto Mendoza-Jarmillio). 71 pages + one page promoting other Broken Jaw Press books, illustrated..

Saint John: New Brunswick Museum, 1954. Book. Good to Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. Small quarto. At the time of this publication, MacBeath served as curator of the Department of Canadian History at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, New Brunswick. Here, he offers a monograph that provides an overview of the periods listed, with the hope "that others will go on to develop the many rich phases which here have only been outlined." Introduction by Jessie I. Lawson. 25 pages + 11 unnumbered pages of illustrations/photographs, folded map attached to rear end paper. Covers partially sunned at edges and spine, previous owner's stamp to title page, wrinkling (exposure to water) to fore-edges throughout. A fairly nice copy, despite the dampstaining. Scarce in first edition, but as common as dirt in the inferior 2021 Hassell Street Press reprint edition..

New York : Belmont Tower 50834, 1975. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The 4th Mannix title published by Belmont Tower, following a single title written by Michael Avallone, published by Popular Library in 1968. Of the five, this is the toughest one to turn up. 171 pages + four pages advertising other Belmont Tower books. Moderately cocked, thin reading crease to spine, semi-circular stain to bottom of front cover, same stain decreasing in visibility through the first six pages, impressions, handling wear..

Guelph: Alive Press Limited/Alive Books, 1973. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author examines the development of the Canadian short story, and shows that it has a long and distinguished history. 100 pages (including a selective bibliography. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Fredericton: York Press Ltd., 1986. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title from the publisher's Authoritative Studies in World Literature series, this one examining the life and work of "the most widely read Spanish author of the century." Uncommon. 40 pages (including annotated bibliography, index). Rubbing, impressions/thin scratches, light smudging to white wraps. Internally tight and clean..

Dell First Edition 12, 1954. Book. Illus. by Stanley Borack (cover illustration). Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback original. The author of the Travis McGee novels gives us the story of a woman with "two pasts--and no future," a woman who "didn't look like the kind of girl she was." 254 pages. A bit cocked, reading crease to left edge of front cover, general handling wear..

Dell First Edition B121, 1958. Book. Illus. by Victor Kalin (cover illustration). Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback original. A man who wants out of his sloppy marriage and his dull job and the whole suburban rat race reaches for something which may be a whole lot worse. Spine a bit cocked, reading crease along left edge of front cover, tiny soil mark to top edge of inside front cover, moderate handling wear..

New York: Dell First Edition B141, 1959. Book. Illus. by Robert McGinnis (cover illustration). Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing of a paperback original featuring 14 stories by female practitioners of the form. Stories included are: "Dear Mr. MacDonald" by Christianna Brand, "Snowball" by Ursula Curtiss, "McGowney's Miracle" by Margaret Millar, "He Got What He Deserved" by Bernice Carey, "Tea for Two" by Margaret Manners, "You'll Be the Death of Me" by Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Beatrice Malleson pseudonym), "The Withered Heart" by Jean Potts, "To Be Found and Read" by Miriam Allen deFord, "Sleeping Dogs" by Gladys Cluff, "A Matter of Ethics" by Carolyn Thomas, "What Is Going to Happen?" by Nedra Tyre, "Thirty-Nine" by D. Jenkins Smith, No Trace" by Veronica Parker Johns, and "There are No Snakes… Read More

Avon T-522, 1961. Book. About Very Good. Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. Published serially under the title 'Ramrod Ridge,' then by Doubleday in 1942. Two footloose cowpunchers wander into "a hideout for the most notorious gunslingers in the territory, the human slime of the frontier." (I'm a'guessin' there's gonna be trouble, pardner.). Rubbing, mild soil, light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. / Crime Club Book. Illus. by Bip Pares (dust jacket illustration). Near Very Good. Hardcover. Early Reprint.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No date (circa 1933). An early reprint of a title that John Dickson Carr considered to be one of the 10 best detective novels. This deals with a serial killer long before that particular type of murderer became popularized in crime fiction. Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 252 pages. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, mild dampstaining to edges, previous owner's name/date (Oct. 24/33) on front pastedown and again on copyright page, a turned corner, bookseller's tag to bottom left corner of rear pastedown, in dust jacket w/rubbing, moderately sunned (entirely legible) spine, light soil, edge tears, a bit of chipping to corners/spine ends..

Ottawa: Canada Department of Agriculture and Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing, 1969. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains information obtained from the soil survey of Annapolis County from 1963-65. Grey wraps, 84 pages, illustrated. Grey board case contains book and four folding maps in rear pocket. Small sticker pull to top right corner of box case, light foxing, light general wear..

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1972. Book. Illus. by Stephen Gerriets (cover illustration). Near Very Good. Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Some rubbing, light edgewear, crinkled bottom left corner, short vertical handling creases to bottom portion of front cover. Internally tight and clean. Scarce signed..

Toronto: William Briggs Book. Illus. by Leslie L. Benson. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Canadian edition.. Small octavo. No date [1918]. According to IMDb, Macfarlane was a railroad clerk, pastor and an actor before becoming a writer. Unable to come to grips with his failing health, he shot himself on the steps of the San Francisco morgue. Far be it from me to argue with IMDb. Red cloth w/yellow bell illustration/black lettering to front cover, black spine lettering, 458 pages. Light wear to corners/spine ends, lightly dusted/tanned edges, small bookseller's tag to bottom of rear pastedown, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, mild chipping, a bit of scuffing, impressions, faint soil, moderate wear to folds. A nice copy of a scarce edition seldom found in a dust jacket..

Saint John: Neptune Publishing, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The authors present a comprehensive account of the 26th New Brunswick Battalion's exploits in World War One. Includes lists of those killed/missing/died of wounds, prisoners of war, recipients of honours and awards, the wounded, and a nominal roll. Badge decoration in gilt to front cover, 428 pages (including glossary, footnotes bibliography), illustrated w/photographs/maps. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, notations/marginalia/check marks lightly in pencil throughout, in dust jacket w/impressions/scratches, wear to top spine, ever-so-slightly sunned spine, moderate handling wear..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "MacGregor charts the highs and lows of being a parent -- from the cherished time when he is the centre of his child's life to the sad day when it dawns on him that he is being gently nudged ever further to one side." Chocolate cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 160 pages. A nice copy in moderately worn dust jacket w/a bit of rubbing, impressions/scratches, uneven crease to bottom of front panel..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2002. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. MacGregor tells the sometimes suspenseful, sometimes humourous story of ice maker Trent Evans, who was invited to assist with the Salt Lake City Olympics, and who buried a loonie (a Canadian one-dollar coin, for those unfamiliar with Canada's goofy coinage--although the nickname could as easily apply to any Canadian politician) at centre ice of the E Center, where Canadian hockey teams subsequently won two gold medals. This copy signed by MacGregor, on title page. Foreword by Wayne Gretzky. Blue cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 95 pages (plus Acknowledgements). An unread copy. Size: Duodecimo -- from 6.75" to 7.75" tall.

Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Small octavo. First printing w/complete number sequence. Contains a variety of articles telling the story of one of hockey's greatest centres, a Boston Bruins legend, and the heart, soul and guts of Team Canada in 1972. Black and gold boards w/gold spine lettering, 115 pages (including acknowledgements), plus four pages of advertisements for other titles in the publisher's Remembering series, copiously illustrated. Tiny soil marks to bottom edge. An unread copy..

Fredericton: Road Builders Association of New Brunswick, 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "The story of how a group of visionary contractors and businessmen joined together in 1958, and through the creation of the Road Builders Association of New Brunswick, ushered in the province's golden age of road building." Black cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 122 pages, illustrated. Dust jacket w/light rubbing, shallow impressions..