Search Results: Titles starting with I from Purpora Books

Vancouver: Porcepic / Beach Holme, 1996. Canadian author's second book, a collection of short stories. . First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. Price-clipped dust jacket with tiny splits top and bottom of front flap fold.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine.

Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1977. Paper covered boards with some shelf wear to bottom and top edges; dust jacket with minor edge wear, a bit of rubbing along rear flap fold and almost no fading to background yellow-orange colour to spine panel. Canadian author's first novel. Signed by author on title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1971. Minor rubbing top of front flap folds and top of spine panel, and general yellowing of rear panel. Published simultaneously with the UK edition. Collection of 15 stories by this Canadian author.. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Ottawa: Deneau, 1982. Tanning of page margins.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Plus..

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1955. Some tiny spots on top edge of blue-green boards; dust jacket has small edge chips and short edge tears, and the background colour of the spine panel has faded from medium brown to pea green. Translated from the German by James Cleugh. Publisher's review card laid-in. pp. (xvi) + 556 + 48 B/W plates inserted.. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1977. Top fore corner of board is lightly bumped; dust jacket is price-clipped with slight yellowing evident on flaps. Koch shows a way to teach people who are old, ill, and institutionalized to write poetry, and like it.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

British Columbia: Western Canadian Regional Council No. 1 International Woodworkers of America, 1971. Minor crease to bottom fore corner; internally clean, unmarked and tightly bound. 63 pages with B&W illustrations from photos. Wrap around cover photo of crew from Crow's Nest Pass Lumber Company at Wardner, B.C., June 1905.. First Edition. Booklet. Near Fine..

London: Cape, 1996. Minor crimping top and bottom of spine and trace soiling along top edge of last page; dust jacket with trace rubs top of flap folds. Author's first book.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Knopf, 1996. First edition. Fine copy in dust jacket with light soiling along flap folds. Author's first novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Victoria: Beach Holme, 1991. Invitation to book launch laid-in. First collection of poems by this Canadian author. Inscribed by author on half-title page "Dear ___: / Thanks for all your kind words. I hope to work with your press again in the future. / Regards Sue Nevill".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

(Victoria, BC): Brindle & Glass, 2010. Cover with flaps. Author's first book, a memoir. Author is ninth daughter of twelve children born to the celebrated pioneer photographer Chow Dong Hoy living in Quesnel, BC. 180 pages. Inscribed by author on title page "To ___ / Best Wishes / Lily Hoy Price".. Signed by Author. Second Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

(Victoria, BC): Brindle & Glass, 2009. Cover with flaps. Author is ninth daughter of twelve children born to the celebrated pioneer photographer Chow Dong Hoy living in Quesnel, BC. 180 pages. Inscribed by author on title page "With my good Wishes / Lily Hoy Price / April 2009". . Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1980. Pale blue wraps faded on spine and in a vertical band on rear cover next to spine. Foreword by Marge Piercy. Poems, 64 pages.. Second Printing. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Toronto: Aya, 1982. Large oblong (4 3/4" x 18 1/4") in first issue copper-coloured cloth. A few very minor imperfections to the cloth; internally very fine. One of 531 copies printed, signed by author and artist. This is copy no. 140 and one of about 200 that were originally bound up in 1982; in 1995 some of the remaining sheets were bound up in grey cloth (second state). This is Jane Urquhart's first book. Printed and bound by Porcupines' Quill, Erin, Ontario.. Signed by Author & Artist. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/No Jacket as Issued.

Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1958. Coarse pea-green coloured cloth binding faded on the spine and has traces of wear at the tips; internally fine. Paper label to upper board, map endpapers, and B/W illustrations from photos; 111 pages. This copy is signed on the half-title page by Victor Spencer, president of the Douglas Lake Cattle Co. Ltd. and one other person whose signature is undecipherable.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus./No Jacket as Issued.

Vancouver: Issue / Unit 306 Society, 1983. Purpose of magazine is to cover the art scene in Vancouver. This issue has a review and interview with artist Lincoln Clarkes.. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine Plus.. Magazine.

Vancouver: Issue / Unit 306 Society, 1984. Purpose of magazine is to cover the art scene in Vancouver. This issue has an interview with performer Laurie Anderson.. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine Plus.. Magazine.

(Vancouver): Vancouver Community Press, 1972. Spine slanted, front cover has a diagonal corner crease and tips a bit bumped. 82 pages.. First Edition. Large Paperback Original. Very Good..

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2002. Canadian author's first book, a novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine.