Search Results: Authors starting with E from Purpora Books

New York: Little Brown, 2008. A novel; 286 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

Cranbury, NJ: Cornwall / Associated University, 1987. Review slip laid-in. 318 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

New York: Random House, 1969. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Author's forty-fifth book, a murder mystery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Oxford University, 1968. Dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, has some wrinkles top of spine panel, and a 1/4" tear top of front panel next to spine. Poems by this Pulitzer Prize winning author. 88 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine.

University: University of Alabama, 1971. Dust jacket a bit sunned on spine panel. 173 pages with index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1979. Bookplate of previous owner affixed to front free endpaper; dust jacket has minor edge wear and light rubbing on spine panel. Biography of the Bloomsbury group; 288 pages with index, bibliography, and chronology 1885-1920.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: John C. Edelmann Galleries, 1981. Front cover has a 1" errant pen mark, the spine has reading creases and there is a very small amount of paper loss at the top of the spine. Substantial auction catalogue of 516 lots with many B/W illustrations and a few in colour. Laid-in is the price list for the lots that were sold, with the top price being $90,000 for a large mid-19th century silk Tabriz carpet.. Wraps. Very Good Plus.. Auction Catalogue.

Sydney: Picador / Pan MacMillan Australia, 2000. British-born Australian author's first novel, based on the true story of the Dutch East India flagship, the Batavia, which foundered off the coast of Western Australia in 1629.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Fine.

La Jolla, CA: Wildstorm / DC Comics, 2010. Large format, 6 5/8" x 10 1/4", glossy cover and guts, all in colour. Graphic novel; 144 pages.. Wraps. Fine..

DC Comics, 2011. Large format, 6 5/8" x 10 1/4", with glossy cover and guts, all in colour. Graphic novel, 156 pages.. Wraps. Fine.. Illus. by Davide Fabbri; Horacio Domingues.

London: Oxford University, 1965. Previous owner name and place top of front free endpaper. Intended for students who are beginning their study of Chaucer; 67 pages with B/W illustrations and glossary.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/No Jacket.

London: Cassell, 1962. Dust jacket is price-clipped with short tears bottom of front panel near spine and top of rear spine fold. Memoirs of one of Britain's greatest fighting soldiers with major sections on North Africa and Italy; 210 pages including battle maps and index plus B/W photo illustrations from Alexander's own albums.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine.

Amsterdam: Bij M. Westerman Half bound in tan paper with marbled paper over boards, and title label pasted on spine. Small, 3 1/4" x 5" x 1 1/4" thick. Wear to edges of boards, tips turned in, title on spine label faint; internally clean and tightly bound. Contains 6 parts, numbers 31 to 36 of this series. No. 31: Dichters van Onzen Tijd (74 pages); No. 32: Jan Goeree (1670-1731) (72 pages); No. 33: Katharyne Lescailje (1649-1711) (72 pages); No. 34: M. Nieuwenhuizen (1759-1793) (71 pages); No. 35: D van Hoogstraten (1658-1721) (72 pages); No. 36: P. J. Kasteleijn (1746-1794) (72 pages). Not dated, but there is one poem dated 1827 in section no. 31 later than that.. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Dust Jacket.

London: Putnam, 1962. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has trace wear to tips and top of spine panel and has 1/4" tear top of front panel and associated short crease. The last of five collections resulting from the Guinness Poetry Awards. It is a collection of some sixty poems judged to be the best of the 3000 or so poems to be published for the first time in Great Britain or Ireland between 1st July 1960 and 1st July 1961. It also includes the three prize winners for unpublished verse of the Cheltenham Festival of 1961 which includes "Insomniac" by Sylvia Plath.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

Victoria: University of Victoria, 1968. Corners lightly bumped and spine tanned (spine is square without creases). Contains an article by George Woodcock "The Deepening Solitude: Notes on the Rebel in Literature", an article "Yeats: The Great Comedian", other articles and "The Sargent Drawings in the Corcoran Gallery" with 12 B&W plates. 131 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.. Literary Periodical.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. Wear to spine and edges of cover; internally clean and unmarked. Literature and art with contributions by Katherine Anne Porter, E.B. White and others. 168 pages of text plus colour illustratiions of paintings related to the article "First Painters of an Emerging Nation". . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.. Literary Periodical.

Auckland, NZ: Oxford University, 1991. Small square of sticker residue on rear cover. One of New Zealand's most distinguished poets. 215 pages. Inscribed by author on title page "With my warmest greetings - such a pleasure to meet you / Lauris Edmond".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1929. Bound in black cloth with pink lettering on upper board and almost white lettering of spine (perhaps faded from pink), illustrated endpapers printed on yellow paper, and top edge stained red (as published). Very minor wear to cover tips, and fine specks of foxing on top edge of page block. U.S. author's first novel, set on the Erie Canal; from the US sheets.. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

(Ottawa): Oberon, 1987. Bumped top of spine and top of fore corner of pages; with review slip laid-in. Collection of stories.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine..

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988. A single long sheet, folded accordian style to make 12 pages. Two copies, but one has text in English, and the other has text totally in Japanese. Brochure for the newly opened Pavilion for Japanese Art with colour illustrations of some of the exhibits.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Near Fine..