Fiction (paperback) from Augustine Funnell Books

Windsor: Biblioasis, 2023. Book. New. Stiff Card Wraps. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Alward's first book, a collection of 12 stories that reveal "the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves." 227 pages (including acknowledgements) + brief author biography. An unread copy..

New York: Jove 09147, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. 1st thus.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. "In the barbaric Northlands, The Eternal Mercenary discovers new battles, and the love of the Lady Lida." First Jove printing, with complete number line. 184 pages + four pages of advertisements for other Jove publications. A tight, square, near… Read more about this item

Toronto: News Stand Library nn, 1948. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. First published in 1947 in a hardcover edition by Frederick Fell. We have here a man, his wife, and his wife's younger sister living in a rural community before the wife's "departure to work in… Read more about this item

London : Star 39613, 1977. Book. Good to Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The fifth novel by Burroughs, being a compilation of selections from earlier works ('Naked Lunch,' 'The Soft Machine,' and 'The Ticket That Exploded,') with some previously unpublished material. 223 pages. Internally tight w/saw-cut remainder stripe to top edge,… Read more about this item

New York: Popular Library 724, 1956. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. "A starkly realistic novel about three deeply passionate French people," said threesome being a peasant woman, an ex-convict, and a teen-age girl (sounds like a helluva weekend coming up). Translated from the French byJohn Petrie. 126 pages + two pages… Read more about this item

Dell 582, Avon 503, Dell 304, Dell D206, Avon nn Book. Various conditions. Paperbacks. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A five-title lot of general fiction, one of them a map-back ('Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal'). All are in at least G condition, with some being much better. Sorry, but no substitutions..

Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Paperback in dust jacket. Inscribed & Signed by Author. 1st thus.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Irving's twelfth novel, telling the story of the decades-long flight of a cook and his son after an accident in a logging community in northern New Hampshire. Translated from the English by Josée… Read more about this item

Pocket 7, Avon G-1139, Dell D140, Pocket 551, Bantam 33 Book. Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Four books by writers whose works have stood the test of time, and which show no sign of experiencing diminishing interest any time soon. Some show very little wear, while others will never be mistaken… Read more about this item

New York: Quarter Books No. 85, 1951. Book. About Good. Wraps. First Edition.. Digest. Wraps original. The only bright spot in a blonde bombshell's world is a musician who enters "her sordid and unhappy life," in the end making her even more unhappy. 128 pages + two pages of advertisements, illustrated. Printing flaw sees front cover end… Read more about this item

New York: Carnival Books No. 931 / Hanro Corporation, 1954. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. Digest. "The realistic story of a love-hungry girl of the Florida scrublands." That's the front cover blurb. The back cover gives us a little more hope that this will be one of those sleazy bad-girl tomes: "There was LORA,… Read more about this item

Lion Books 31, Popular Library 1392, Dell 537, Dell D183, Pocket bB19 Book. Good or better. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A multi-pack featuring a variety of themes, promoted on the front covers as "The story of an inadequate man," "Teen-Age Hoodlums On The Loose," a "wonderfully wicked tale of an uninhibited island paradise in… Read more about this item

New York : Dell First Edition A202, 1960. Book. Illus. by Robert McGinnis (cover illustration). Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing of a paperback original. A woman "like a tropic night -- dark, smooth, and glowing with only the most subtle hint of the savagery that lay beneath" enchants a man… Read more about this item

London: Futura, 1976. Book. About Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback original. In tropical Africa a biologist and a film producer, joined, of course, by a "pretty production assistant," hear about "the legend of a giant beast, rampaging across the country, destroying everything in its path." Naturally, "A trail of… Read more about this item

New York : Pocket, 1992. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Pocket edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. First printing thus w/complete number line. Basis for the 1992 movie directed by Robert Redford, and starring Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, and Emily Lloyd. In addition to the title novella, this contains two other… Read more about this item

Bantam 456, Pocket 536, Pocket 304, Pocket 131, Pocket 722 Book. Various conditions. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. This group boasts stories about a storekeeper who "peddles everything from pink corsets to Ford cars," a woman who is "the source of the dark-flowing currents which envelop three generations," a man who sees himself as "a… Read more about this item

White Circle 257, Pocket 503, Avon 94, Pocket 1073 Book. Various conditions. Paperbacks. 1sts thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A collection of four novels, three of which are pretty much standing the test of time in American literature, and the other of which looks like a delightful read to cleanse the literary palate (that would be this… Read more about this item

Pocket 175, Pocket 829, Pocket 296, Avon 244 Book. Good Reading Copies. Paperbacks. Various editions.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First we have a "powerful and inspiring novel that has guided hundreds of thousands of people and given them strength and comfort," (a 12-year-old Glenfiddich single malt usually does the same thing for me); followed by the story… Read more about this item

Toronto: Popular Library M2048, 1964. Book. Good Reading Copy. Soft cover. 1st thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Canadian printing. We have here Angie, "a pretty little thing with big, lonesome eyes" and "Rocky, a careless footloose sort -- who already has something going with a sentimental stripper who loves dogs -- and stray men." (I'd… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2001. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. Small octavo. Thompson's first novel, telling the story of an English teacher in Japan whose enthusiasm for life in general is gradually waning until she "encounters a half-Japanese teenager, Naomi, wrangling with her double identity." Self-examination and renewed determination ensue. Inscription reads, "For… Read more about this item

New York, Toronto/Winnipeg, Sydney, London: Bantam Giant A893, Harlequin 211, Star Books/Starbooks nn, Pan 394 Book. Good Reading Copies. Soft cover. 1sts thus.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A collection of four novels, some of which you may have heard of, others of which may be new to you, but all of which once had their day in… Read more about this item