Recent Arrivals from Augustine Funnell Books

Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Canadian edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. An uncommon edition of a story first published in Black Mask (April, 1922). Displays Knopf colophon on title page, which credits Macmillan as the publisher, so the presumption is that Macmillan used Knopf sheets and simply changed the publisher's name. Dark… Read more about this item

New York: A.L. Burt Company Book. Illus. by Stanley L. Wood (frontispiece). Good. Hardcover. 1st Thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. No date, but an early A.L. Burt reprint of a romance/western title first published by Small, Maynard & Company in 1918. From the front flap: "A story of a fine-souled woman and of a man who knows… Read more about this item

Tantallon: Four East Publications, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 74 pages (including appendices, bibliography), illustrated. A nice square, tight copy w/a couple of tiny smudges to fore-edge, but otherwise showing no signs of having been read..

Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1954. Book. Illus. by Charles Liedl. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. Large octavo. A collection of seven stories featuring Jimmy-Why, a young boy with insatiable curiosity, and his friend, Noel, an old Indian who is happy to share with his young friend his knowledge and lore of the New Brunswick. The stories… Read more about this item

Sackville: Owens Art Gallery, 1978. Book. Very Good. Wraps. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Reproductions of 40 paintings from the travelling exhibition organized by the Owens Art Gallery, w/forewords by T. Keilor Bentley (gallery director) and Donald Cameron Mackay, and an opening statement from the artist. Unpaginated, w/biographical notes and an itinerary of the exhibition. Moderate… Read more about this item

Fredericton: University of New Brunswick, 1969. Book. Illus. by Bruno Bobak (cover illustration). Very Good. Stiff Card Stapled Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The seventh title in the New Brunswick Chapbooks series edited by Nancy Bauer, herself a writer of some renown. 31 pages + one-page list of other titles in the series (eight… Read more about this item

Windsor: Biblioasis, 2023. Book. New. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of 21 stories "published over the last four decades," selected for this collection by the author. Signed on title page. 320 pages + brief author biography. An unread copy..

Wolfville: Conundrum Press, 2017. Graphic Novels. Illus. by Alexander Forbes. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A graphic novel following " a gang of teens who have made it their business to investigate every one of their town's bizarre occurrences as The Teen Detective Club (a registered… Read more about this item

Chicago: American Library Association (ALA), 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Decorated cloth, faux leather spine w/gilt lettering, xxii, 501 pages (including appendices, abbreviations of works cited, notes, index), illustrated end papers, colour frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations. Bumped/moderately worn corners, mild handling wear. This one weighs almost as much as Audubon… Read more about this item

London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1885. Book. Illus. by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and John Tenniel. About Good. Hardcover. 2nd edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pseudonym of English clergyman Richard Harris Barham, whose collection of ghost stories, myths, legends, and poems were so popular when first published in the Bentley's Miscellany magazine that they were collected in… Read more about this item

Fredericton: Sunbury West Historical Society, 1987. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A lengthy labour of love offering considerable information concerning the people, businesses and social activities in a small New Brunswick community. Of especial interest to those concerned with the area's history, this has much genealogical… Read more about this item

Toronto: ECW Press, 2020. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. According to Publisher's Weekly, this one is replete with deep thinking and reflection, revealing the poet's wide-ranging intellect, eclectic mind, and penchant for sharp satire." Signed on title page, then inscribed on what I'm going to call… Read more about this item

London & Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, 1926. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New edition. A book reviewer with The Scotsman thought this "the best account of Celtic literature which has yet appeared to the north of the Tweed." Denim cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 400 pages (including index of… Read more about this item

Fredericton: Self-published, 2003. Book. Good. Spiral Bound Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Campbell presents stories of his Loyalist ancestors, who settled in what would later be called Ripples, in Sunbury County, New Brunswick. Contains considerable information for local historians and those interested in the genealogy of the Campbell, Ackerman,… Read more about this item

Pawling: Self-published, 1884. Book. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Merlot cloth w/gilt illustration to front cover, gilt spine lettering, 381 pages, illustrated. Bumped/worn corners, sunned strips to top/left portions of front cover, sunned spine, spine gilt faded, water staining, slits to right spine edge, previous owner's name to front and second end papers,… Read more about this item

Fredericton: Queens County Historical Society, 1984. Book. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Reicker tells the stories of numerous Queens County, New Brunswick, settlements that either fell by the wayside or were expropriated by the Department of Defence to facilitate the construction of Camp Gagetown in the mid-1950s. Contains a wealth of… Read more about this item

No Place: Privately published, 2007. Book. Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Presents the story of an under-appreciated musician and founding member of the legendary American blues band, Canned Heat. 246 pages (including appendix, acknowledgements), illustrated. Light edgewear, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, surface wear/thin scratches/handling wear, a bit of edge… Read more about this item

Hong Kong: Unicorn Press, 1974. Book. Illus. by Pao-hua Yang. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Translated by Kuo-Shui Chang. 184 pages (including index) + six pages promoting other items available through Unicorn Press, illustrated w/photographs and figures/graphs. Moderate general wear, liquid paper smear on front pastedown (presumably covering previous owner's name)..… Read more about this item

New York: Amulet Books / Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 2010. Book. Illus. by Jonathan Burton. As New. Hardcover. 1st Thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. There's not much that the likes of me can add to the public perception of Douglas Adams's creative brilliance, so beyond proposing that his left-handedness was probably responsible for said brilliance, I'll just drag my morose self into the… Read more about this item