Search Results: Titles starting with A from Purpora Books

Garden City: Paris Review / Doubleday, 1967. Light wear to cloth at ends of spine and very minor soiling top edge of text block; dust jacket has small chips ends of spine panel, darkened and rubbed along fold lines and has a small spot of faint soiling on rear panel. Poems, with an introduction by Robert Creeley; 267 pages. Third book and first volume of poetry published by Paris Review Edtions.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

London: Gale & Polden Oblong, 8 3/4" x 5 1/2". A bit of normal soiling from use on inside of covers, staples are rusty, and rubbing along the spine fold. Undated. Unpaginated, but 24 pages. B&W and colour illustrations.. Booklet. Very Good..

Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1971. Large format, 8 1/2" x 11". Nice copy. Issued as Art Series No. 3. Text, B&W and a few colour reproductions of Leighton's works. Cover illustratioin is "Floe Lake, Marbel Canyon", a watercolor done in 1930. First Edition. Stapled in Wraps. Near Fine..

Toronto / Montreal: Copp Clark / McGill-Queen's University, 1974. Illustrated blue wraps with slight edge wear and rubbing along spine folds. Of the Studies in Canadian Literature series. Critical study of Canadian author Klein; 147 pages with select bibliography.. Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Plus..

London: Anvil, 1981. Some very faint soiling of the covers. First collection of poems by Disch to appear in England. 79 pages.. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

New York: Mysterious, 1997. First edition. Advance reading copy in wraps. Fine.. Soft Cover.

New York: Knopf, 2003. Signed and dated (2/03) by author on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Chepstow: Newport & Monmouthshire Branch of the Historical Assocation & Chepstow Society, 1952. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very minor rubbing to bottom edge of boards; internally clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Dust jacket has wear to ends of spine panel, darkening of the spine panel and along flap folds, and partial sticker and sticker scan bottom of rear panel. 120 pages including index plus a fold out map of Chepstow past and present. . First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Norton, 1997. New and unread. Author's first novel with praise blurbs on rear of dust jacket by Bob Shacochis, A. M. Homes and two others.. First Printing of First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Gollancz, 1998. 286 pages. Signed and dated (6.4.98.) by author on title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2012. Rubbing along spine folds. A novel about George Mallory's iff-fated 1924 attempt to be the first man to conguer Mount Everest. 357 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine.

San Francisco: Chronicle, 1987. Featuring nearly 150 full-colour aerial photographs, this book showcases contemporary Israel.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

Toronto: Lester & Orpen, 1977. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine; dust jacket is bright yet has significant edge wear inluding short tears and wrinkles and a 1" tear bottom of rear panel which has narrow band of colour loss.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Good Plus.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. Ribbon marker bound in. A novel. 383 pages. Signed by author (signature only) on title page.. Signed by Author. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1959. Dull medium red paper-covered boards are faded in a thin horizontal band at bottom of spine; dust jacket has some edge wear wrinkles and rubs and a couple of tiny chips top of spine panel, the spine panel is sunned and the flap folds are darkened. This copy is from the library of Canadian author Jane Rule and her partner Helen Sonthoff and has their bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. "A novel of the spectre of lawless, care-free youth in our cities.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004. Ribbon marker bound in. A novel. 383 pages. Signed by author (signature only) on title page.. Signed by Author. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

Santa Barbara: Unicorn, 1969. Single sheet, 12" x 8", folded once vertically; laid-into brick red 3-piece folder. The folder is faded, especially along the left side of the panel printed with the title and author name, and has minor creases. The broadside itself, printed in 1000 copies, is in fine condition.. First Edition. Single Sheet in Folder. Very Good..

Markham, ON: Viking / Penguin Canada, 1985. Red wraps with small white spot on front, spine faded with a few light creases and soft creases and faint stain on rear cover; text block is reasonably tight and spine is reasonably square; there are a few leaves with tiny dog-ears.. First Canadian Edition. Wraps. Very Good Plus.. Uncorrected Proof.

Toronto: Viking / Penguin, 1991. The fifth in the Detectives Willows and Parker mystery series set in Vancouver, BC. 224 pages. Inscribed by author on title page "To ___ / Laurence Gough".. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

New York: Scribner, 1996. Minor edge wesr to dust jacket edges. This is one of 2500 numbered copies signed by author on a tipped-in preliminary page (this is #469); the dust jacket states on rear panel "Limited Signed Edition / Not For Sale".. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine.