Search Results: Authors starting with D from Purpora Books

Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead, 1977. Tanning of covers along spine fold and faint off-setting to rear cover. Poems by this Guyana-born Canadian; 22 pages.. First Edition. Chapbook. Near Fine Plus..

Ottawa: Borealis, 1979. Front cover with very faint yellowing near the top. Collection of poems by this Guyana-born Canadian; 81 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Co., 1994. Articles include "Guardians of the Rockies", conservationists and mountain-climbers, "The Friendly Games", Hamilton hosts the first British Empire Games, 1930, "Myth-Making at Fort St. James", History, in various versions, 1828-1928, "Kathleen Parlow: A Life in Music", a Canadian virtuoso in St. Petersburg, 1906, and "The New Jerusalem", Jewish pioneers go back to the land, 1884. 56 pages.. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine.. Magazine.

Saskatoon: Thistledown, 2003. Stories, new and selected.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. First edition. Fine copy in dust jacket which has a small area of squigglely impression marks on front panel not affecting colour. Author's second novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1997. British author's third novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Toronto: Copp Clark, 1969. Fading of the spine; a nice tight copy. Studies in Canadian Literature (SCL) no. 2. 130 pages. Inscribed by Dahlie on the title page "Best wishes ___ / from Hallvard Dahlie".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Small Paperback. Near Fine..

Concord, Ontario: Anansi, 1997. Cover with flaps. Canadian author's second novel, originally published in French in 1995; translated by Robert Majzels.. First English Language Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine.

Toronto: J. M. Dent Canada, 1948. Black boards appear to be a bit dusty. Dust jacket has considerable wear including a chip on rear panel next to flap fold, a 1" split bottom of front flap fold and a quarter sized sticker scar top of front panel next to flap fold. A play. 58 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Good.

Canada: Manalta Coal Ltd., 1989. Squarish. Two streaks of light staining to front cover. Excellent B&W photography of retired and active miners by Lawrence Chrismas.. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback. Near Fine..

London: World Distributors (Manchester), 1961. Very minor wear to boards.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars Bound in black cloth with red backstrip with gilt lettering "La Criminalite" on spine. Tips pushed in, a little wear to bottom tips, circular scar on spine (not affecting lettering) probably where a label was removed, book plate "Ex Libris / Bibliotheque des medecins" on front paste down, owner name and date (1931) top of title page, and pocket (unmarked) attached to rear paste down; internally clean, unmarked (other than the marks of former library), and tightly bound. Ex libris of the "Hospital St. Jean de Dieu" of Montreal (a psychiatric hospital) with its rubber stamp on series title page, and blind stamp on title page and on final page. Of the series "Encyclpedie Scientifique des Aide-Memoire". Text in French; 212 pafes. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued.

Ottawa: Canadian Geographical Society, 1956. Articles from page 136 to 181 of this journal, and include "Wet Plate Wonder" about George T. Taylor (1838-1913) of New Brunswick, who was one of the first photographers to turn a camera upon nature, "The Hidden Harvest" about the commercial harvest of seneca in Manitoba, and others.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good..

Ottawa: Canadian Geographical Society, 1937. Articles from page 183 to 239 of this journal, and include "Canada's Motor Car Industry", "Four-Footed Trailside Friends of the Rockies", and others.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good Plus..

New York: St. Martins, 1986. First edition. Fine book in near fine plus dust jacket with slight edge wear and a 1/4" tear at bottom of front panel; 287 pages; B/W photo illustrations.. First Edition.

St. John's, NF: Breakwater, 1989. Author's first volume of poems. 80 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

Victoria, BC: Classic Memoirs, 1997. Large format, 8 1/2" x 11". 171 pages with 4 maps, a family tree and 15 pages of B&W illustrations from photographs. For nearly a half century, Ron Dalziel fished and logged across central Vancouver island, and up and down the Georgia Strait; this is the story of the years from the 1940s to the 1980s.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Vancouver: YMCA of Greater Vancouver, 1986. Small spot on front cover and soft vertical crease on front cover and first twenty leaves or so. Published in celebration of the centenaries of the Vancouver YMCA and the City of Vancouver. 96 pages with B/W illustratiions from photos, and index.. First Edition. Large Paperback. Near Fine..

New York: Cape Press, 1990. Large format, 9 1/2" x 13". Lavishly ilustrated (250 B&W pictures, 65 full color plates), and exquisitely printed, surveys the development of animal illustration from its origins through the periods of its finests acheivement. 224 pages with index. A beautiful production. Heavy and will require additional postage.. Second Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

New York: Macmillan, 1921. Bound in red paper-covered boards with paper label to upper board and to spine. Minor wear to top and bottom edges of boards, fine and faint spotting of page edges, and owner name top of front free endpaper; dust jacket has overall light soiling, is darkened on the spine panel and flap folds and has two tears and associated creasing between bottom of front panel. 143 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good.