Search Results: Authors starting with B from Purpora Books

Toronto: Anansi, 2006. Poems. 110 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Gibsons, BC: Nightwood, 2013. Poems. 80 pages.. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Vancouver: British Columbia Library Association, 1973. Printed by Morriss Printing Company. Contains a 4-page interview with Phyllis Webb; a 12-page article on Blake's Illustrations to Milton's On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"; some concrete poetry; other articles related to librarys; and book reviews. 56 pages.. First Edition. Booklet. Near Fine Plus..

Toronto: Viking, 1996. Cover with flaps. With general signs of light use, especially along top edge of front cover. Canadian author's first book, a novel. Signed by author on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Very Good Plus..

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000. Bottom of spine crimped and with trace of shelf wear; dust jacket has trace of wear bottom of spine panel. Canadian author's second novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

London: Viking, 1997. Canadian author's first book, a novel, originally published in Canada as a trade paperback original in 1996.. First UK Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000. A few small spot on top edge of pages, otherwise clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Canadian author's second novel, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Caribbean and Canada Region for Best Book. Longlisted for the Orange Prize. 361 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Plus.. Uncorrected Proof.

Toronto: Viking, 1996. Cover with flaps. Canadian author's first book, a novel. . First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000. Bottom tip of rear board bumped with diagonal crease about 1/2" long, else book is fine. Canadian author's second novel. Signed by author on the half-title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000. Canadian author's second novel. Signed by author on the title page. 359 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has rubs top and bottom of flap folds.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near 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.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has slight edge wear to tips and very short tears and wrinkling top of spine panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Andoversford, Gloucestershire / London: Whittington Press / Heinemann, 1980. Bound in Laura Ashley type patterned cloth, cream spine label, and oval photo of author pasted to upper board. Slipcase covered in brown paper which has a few marks, rubs, and minor splits. Edited and with an introduction by R.P. Lister. Enid Bagnold (1889-1981). 400 total copies, hand-set, this is one of 370 bound in cloth (this is no. 310) and signed by the author. 77 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/No Jacket as Issued.

Toronto: Exile, 1997. Poems, with original artwork by Teresa Fonseca.. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Campbell River, BC: Self-Published, 1985. Large format, 8 1/2" x 11", 192 pages + one addendum page bound in at rear. This second printing same year as the first. Collection of stories about pioneers and logging in central Vancouver Island (Denman Island, Comox, Courtenay, Campbell River). . Second Printing. Paperback. Fine..

Campbell River, BC: Self-Published, 1985. Large format, 8 1/2" x 11", 192 pages, errata slip pasted to inside front cover. Collection of stories about pioneers and logging in central Vancouver Island (Denman Island, Comox, Courtenay, Campbell River). Inscribed by author on title page "To ___ / Wallace Baikie / Sept 11/85".. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine Plus..

Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1981. Covers lightly rubbed, more so on the rear, other signs of light use, and Canada Coucil rubber stamp on title page; spine is square without creases. The collected poems. 187 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Very Good Plus..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973. White dust jacket shows some rubs, and there is wear to top edge of rear panel, including a 3/4" tear. Poems. Inscribed by author on title page to fellow Canadian writer "To Michael Yates / with warm regards / Alfred Bailey / 15 April 1975".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Very Good.

(Ottawa): Oberon, 1987. Traces of edge wear to cover and a 1" vertical split at bottom of spine. Stories by this Canadian author. Also published simultaneously in a hard cover edition.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine..