Fiction (hardcover) from Augustine Funnell Books

Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company Book. Very Good to Near Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. An uncommon-in-a-dust-jacket edition of Carroll's classic and its sequel, telling the continuing story of a little girl whom everyone who ever read a children's book is familiar with, and loves (or damn well better, since the… Read more about this item

London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The last of the author's Acadian novels, this one first published the same year by L.C. Page & Company, Boston. Patterned cloth w/cameo illustration, gilt spine lettering, 265 pages. Moderately cocked w/moderate wear to corners/spine ends, tanned/smudged edges, a… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & Company Book. Illus. by Mircea Vasiliu / Gioia Fiammenghi. About Very Good. Hardcovers. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The second and third adventures from a four-book series featuring a kind-hearted London charwoman. 'Mrs. 'Arris Goes to New York' (1960) (MAGTNY) may be a first U.S. printing, but without any indication of… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Book. About Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A man unhappy with city life leaves it all behind to become a farmer in Vermont. Olive cloth w/gilt lettering/lines to front cover/spine, 382 pages. Cocked, bumped/worn/frayed corners, chipping/short tears to spine ends, light cover soil, dusty/lightly soiled edges,… Read more about this item

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A story of animosity, vendettas and violence between rival merchants in "an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline." First edition w/complete number line. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 323 pages. An unread copy in dust jacket… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ackroyd's well-received first novel, set in contemporary London, about a film-maker who wants to make a film of Charles Dickens's novel, 'Little Dorrit.' This being Ackroyd, not all is sweetness and light. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 169 pages. Bumped/bent… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap (G&D) Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. Small octavo. No date (although based on list of titles promoted on rear panel, this would be circa 1936). The story of "a magnificent animal, part dog, more wolf" who is mistreated by all the humans of his experience until a man rescues him from a bulldog's… Read more about this item

London : Jonathan Cape, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brautigan's penultimate novel, published in 1982, a couple of years before he decided he'd had enough, and shot himself (the story that he left a note reading, "Messy, isn't it?" turns out to be apocryphal, which is kinda sad, because it would… Read more about this item

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Omnibus volume containing seven stories, three of them featuring the irrepressible Ada Harris. Blue faux leather w/gilt spine lettering, 477 pages, illustrated. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, small scrapes to spine, light foxing to fore-edge, previous owner's name/date… Read more about this item

Washington: Bond Publishing Company, 1981. Book. Illus. by Daniel R. Wynn (cover illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "A collection of short stories taken from unusual occurrences in the field of medicine." Red cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 161 pages. Mildly cocked, previous owner's pencil notation to… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. When a 12-year-old boy tells his mother that a neighbour has been inappropriately touching him, the revelation "shakes two families to their very foundations." Signed on half-title. Blue boards w/maroon cloth backstrip w/silver lettering, 313 pages + acknowledgments.… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Book. Illus. by A.B. Frost. Good. Hardcover. New & revised edition.. Small octavo. First published in 1880, with this 15-years-later edition boasting a "Preface and Dedication to the New Edition," and 112 illustrations, 11 of which are the full-page variety. Illustrated red cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, top edge gilt, 265… Read more about this item

Montreal: John Lovell, 1874. Book. About Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Small octavo. A posthumously published collection of verse and prose by a Nova Scotian journalist and politician. Green cloth variant w/gilt decoration/lettering to front cover/spine, 341 pages (including index). Bumped/worn/frayed corners/spine ends, previous owner's name, shaken signatures, tanning..

Toronto: Harper / HarperCollins / HarperCollinsPublishers / Harper Collins, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The true first edition (with complete number line, and published about three weeks before the American version) of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a story that also won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Tuscan sun… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 2020. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A young boy growing up in 1980s Glasgow with no father and an alcoholic mother desperately longs to be normal, but is considered by everyone who knows him to be not quite right, possessed of "a secret that all but he can… Read more about this item

Boston & New York: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 2008. Book. Very Good to Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. When a 16-year-old Saudi Arabian girl from a prominent family goes missing, a desert guide is enlisted to help find her, but when he does she is dead, and he "takes it upon himself to… Read more about this item

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. Book. Illus. by Paul Bacon (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The third title in Whittemore's Jerusalem Quartet series. First printing w/complete number line. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 459 pages. Bumped bottom edge of front cover, light general wear,… Read more about this item

New York: Persea Books, 1994. Book. Illus. by Dan de Carlo (dust jacket illustration). Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. Small octavo. A collection of 11 linked stories. Inscription reads:"Dear Raymond/Pleasure to read with you./Hope our paths will cross/again. With all best/wishes/xo/Norman Wong". Pine boards w/black cloth backstrip w/silver spine lettering, 177 pages… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co., 1958. Book. Illus. by Victor Reinganum (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small octavo. Spark's second novel, narrated by one of three survivors of a plane crash on an island inhabited by "a spiritual recluse" who doesn't particularly want them there. Green cloth w/gilt lettering/decoration to spine, 186 pages. What looks like… Read more about this item

El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. On his sixteenth birthday a Jewish boy is accused of murder when the younger sister of a Christian girl he daydreams about disappears in the woods outside Massena, New York. Naturally, the stupid, the ignorant… Read more about this item