Search Results: Authors starting with G from Purpora Books

(Toronto): Doubleday Canada, 2015. Large format, 10" x 10". Fore tips gently bumped. Internally clean, unmarked, and totally uncoloured. Not paginated, but text block is 3/8" thick. . First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Plus..

Vancouver: New Star, 2008. Slight bumping top of fore edge. Poems. 129 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Montreal: Musee D'art Contemporain De Montreal, 1986. Large format, 8 1/4" x 11"; 47 pages. An exhibition of contemporary photographs, reproduced here in both B&W and in colour. 12-page insert which translates the text into English.. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: DC Comics, 1993. Originally published in single magazine issues as Sandman 32-37. Colour comic strips.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Shawn McManus.

Boston: Walter H. Baker Co., 1927. Grey wraps with black lettering on front. Wraps extend beyond the text block (yapp edges) thus there are crease lines along the edges of the wraps and minor chipping at the tips, a short tear at top of front spine fold, and a few minor faint stains to rear cover. Internally clean and tightly bound. A one-act play, originally printed in "Wisconsin Plays" in 1914, and subsequently reprinted in pamphlet format in 1920. 67 pages.. Reprint. Pamphlet. Very Good Plus..

London: Women's Press, 1986. Faint spotting on top edge; minor wear to dust jacket tips and very faint moisture stain at bottom of rear panel. Author's second novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

London: Orion, 1999. Irish author's first novel. This advance issue is dated 1999, the trade edition 2000.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy.

Dunvegan, ON: Quadrant, 1983. Minor bumping of cover tips; spine is square and uncreased; 110 pages. Also published in a hardcover edition. Author's first play, which had its world premiere in Toronto on November 11, 1982.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993. New stories. 198 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

New York: Random House, 1979. Top of spine crimped, and there are two 1/4" tears, one top of front panel and one top of rear panel of dust jacket. All these stories originally appeared in The New Yorker. 243 pages.. First US Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1981. Canadian writer Mavis Gallant (1922-2014). Laurentian Library (67) paperback edition. 243 pages. Signed by author (signature only) on title page.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Plus..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993. The dark green lettering on the spine panel has faded to blue. New stories. 198 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus.

London: Cape, 1987. Tanning of the pages; othewise a fresh copy. Originally published in Canada two years earlier. 196 pages.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. Publisher's promo sheet laid-in. Canadian author's second novel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. New and unread. Canadian author's second novel. Signed by author on title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Toronto: Lester, 1995. Cover with flaps. "Macabre collection of short stories, Priscilla Galloway gives eight traditional fairy tales very untraditional interpretations. 132 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Bound in purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Softening of the spine ends, some tone on tone staining of the upper board; endpapers sound; internally clean and unmarked. 328 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Dust Jacket.

Kingston, Ontario: Quarry, 1991. Minor soiling of top edge of pages. Twenty-five essays written by well-known Canadian authors, including Margaret Atwood, Sharon Butala, Denise Chong, Jane Rule, Audrey Thomas, etc.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Dunvegan, ON: Quadrant, 1982. Author recounts his personal experiences travelling through the Aegean Islands with his wife; 200 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry, 1973. Poems. 500 copies printed.. First Edition. Chapbook. Near Fine Plus..