Search Results: Authors starting with L from Purpora Books

New Rochelle, Ny: Elizabeth Press, 1971. Cover with flaps, darkened on the spine, and with minor bumping to the tips. Poems, limited to 400 copies printed on Magnani paper by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Vancouver: Blewointmentpress [Blewointment / Blew Ointment Press], 1971. Horizontal oblong, 8 1/2" x 11", side stapled with cloth tape back strip. Limited edition of 500. Poems by Lachance, drawings by Bill Bissett.. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine..

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. Cover with flaps. Author's first novel. Illustrations by Stephen Alcorn.. First Edition. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy.

Black Ball Line, 1959. Single sheet, 5 1/2" x 18 1/2", folded once horizontally to make 4 pages, letterpress printed in dark blue on front (page 1) and on inside (page 3). Some tanning and soft vertical fold. A poem "The Ferryboat" by LaFarge.. First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good..

Toronto: Coach House, 1991. Second book by Haitian-born Canadian; translated from the original French by David Homel.. First English Language Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Toronto: Coach House, 1994. First English language edition. Trade paperback original in pictorial wraps with flaps. Fine copy with a few slight bumps to top edge of front cover Haitian-born Canadian's fifth book; translated from the original French by David Homel..

Oxford: Oxford University, 1984. 52 pages with index. Probably issued without dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/No Jacket.

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2002. Cover with flaps. Minor bumping along the front flap fold and bottom of front cover; internally tight and clean. Canadian author's second novel. 269 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

New York: Murray Hill , 1944. Bound in dark blue cloth with image of sailing ship stamped on upper board and gilt lettering on spine; map endpapers. Minor wear to edges of boards. 487 pages plus a number of illustrations in full colour.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Gordon Grant.

Long Island City, NY: Heinemann, 1988. Ghanan author's second novel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

Roberts Creek, BC: Nightwood, 2002. Cover with flaps. Poems. 88 pages. Signed by author (signature only) on title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Vancouver: Vancouver Civic Theatre Society, 1955. Normal wear and soft horizontal crease midway across program. Sixteen-page souvenir theatre program, 8" x 10 1/2", guts printed in B&W, with illustrations of Vancouver harbour, scenes from the production, and head shots of management, cast and crew. This program was owned by the lady who designed the hats for this TUTS production and is autographed and inscribed to her by seven members of the cast.. Signed by Cast Members. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good..

Vancouver: Vancouver Civic Theatre Society, 1954. Normal wear. Sixteen-page souvenir theatre program, 8" x 10 1/2", guts printed in B&W, with illustrations of downtown Vancouver, Malkin Bowl (the outdoor venue), scenes from other TUTS productions, and head shots of management, cast and crew. This program was owned by the lady who designed the hats for this TUTS production and is autographed and inscribed to her by two members of the cast.. Signed by Cast Members. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good Plus..

Garden City, NY: Star Books Bound in orange cloth with black lettering on upper board and on spine. Owner name of front free endpaper, and minor separation between some signatures; endpapers sound. 270 pages with index. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1979. Shelf wear to top and bottom edges of boards and spine ends; dust jacket with minor edge wear and rubs, a 1/4" tear top of rear spine fold and spine has faded from yellow orange to a pink. Lamb's career as a newspaperman - first in Woodstock, then in Moose Jaw, and ultimately in Orillia as publisher of the Daily Packet and Times.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.

Victoria: Archives of British Columbia, 1940. Faint school stamp on front cover, long diagonal crease on rear cover, and wraps faded on and around the spine. This issue contains articles on "Coal mining on Burrard Inlet, 1865-66"; "Why "Bits"?"; and "Empress to the Orient, Part I". 62 pages.. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good.. Digest-Sized Magazine.

Victoria: Archives of British Columbia, 1946. A few pages at rear with small dog-ears. This issue contains articles on "From Hand-set Type to Linotype"; "Burrard of Burrard's Channel"; "John Jeffrey: Botanical Explorer"; and "McLoughlin's Statement of the Expenses incurred in the Dryad Incident of 1834". Pages 253-319, including index to all issues of Volume X.. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good Plus..

Minneapolis, 1922. Cloth binding with minor wear and marks, previous owner name on front free endpaper, and music notations, in pencil, on rear free endpaper; internally nice. Includes words and music for 44 Delta Gamma songs; 68 pages.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant, 2000. Cover with flaps. Canadian author's second book, a novella and seven stories.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant, 2000. Cover with flaps. New and unread. Canadian author's second book, a novella and seven stories.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..