Search Results: Authors starting with W from Purpora Books

Oxford / London: Blackwell / Simpkin Marshall, 1911. Black wraps with paper label with title on front; binding sewn. Tiny spots of foxing on most pages with the worst being at the gutter of the centre fold. Poems; 24 pages.. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good..

Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1997. Interviews with Kazuo Ishiguro, Carol Shields, William Trevor, Jeanette Winterson, Carlos Fuentes, Martin Amis and others; 352 pages.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Plus..

Vancouver: Growing Room Collective, 1983. Collection of short stories, poems, reviews, and commentary by, for and about women. With contributions by Eleanor Wachtel, Rina Fraticelli "Any Black Crippled Woman Can!: A feminist's notes from outside the sheltered workshop", Margaret Hollingsworth ("Islands: a One Act Play"), and others.. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine Plus.. Digest-Sized Literary Magazine.

Vancouver: Growing Room Collective, 1983. Bump and short split near top of spine. Collection of short stories, poems, reviews, and commentary by, for and about women. With contributions by Eleanor Wachtel, Rina Fraticelli "Any Black Crippled Woman Can!: A feminist's notes from outside the sheltered workshop", Margaret Hollingsworth ("Islands: a One Act Play"), and others.. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine.. Digest-Sized Literary Magazine.

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..

Toronto: Oxford University, 1966. Issued without dust jacket. There is only minor fading of the bright pink spine. Poems by this Canadian author.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine./No Jacket.

Toronto: Oxford University, 1981. Canadian author's eleventh collection of poems. Signed by author on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Toronto: Oxford University, 1976. Minor edge wear and rubbing to the gold-coloured covers. Canadian author's ninth collection of poems. Signed by author on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic / Valley, 1982. Canadian author's first collection of short stories. Also published in a hard cover edition. Signed by author on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback. Near Fine Plus..

Toronto: Oxford University, 1992. Slight tanning of covers. Poems.. First Edition, First Printing. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Toronto: Oxford University, 1981. Minor bumping of tips of cover. Canadian author's eleventh collection of poems. . First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry, 1980. Tanning along spine fold. Poems by this Canadian.. First Edition. Chapbook. Near Fine Plus..

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1950. Illustrated boards are bright, rubbed along bottom edge, bottom tip bumped, split for about 4" along rear spine fold, owner name on front free endpaper; otherwise internally very nice, clean and tight. Dust jacket is rubbed along flap folds, has small chips ends of spine panel, a 1 1/2" tear top of rear panel, and an area bottom of rear panel next to fore edge where the colour of the paper has peeled off; but colour is bright and displays well. First edition with the Pinson illustrations; 72 pages.. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Illus. by Paul Pinson.

London: Chappell & Co., 1890. Large format, 8" x 10 1/2", bound in pebbly dark maroon cloth with gilt lettering on upper board. Edge wear to cloth, front endpaper partially split, rear endpaper totally split but holding (webbing exposed), title page tanned, otherwise internally clean. 82 pages.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket.

Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979. Minor rubbing along edges of black cover,; internally fine. Exhibition catalogue with colour and B&W illustrations. 32 pages.. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1985. Light use to book and a single small letter and check mark, in red ink, top of half-title page; dust jacket has a bit of edge wear. A collection of essays prepared by the Canadian Theatre Critics Association; 411 pages including comprehensive index and B/W photo illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Floyd Clymer, 1949. Bound in faux leather with gilt lettering on upper board and on spine (dulled). Minor wear to ends of spine, and slightly musty odour. Revised edition (addition of illustrations from photos) designated as "Deluxe Edition" on the upper board. 189 pages plus 3 pages of publisher's ads.. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

Vancouver / Toronto: Blewointmentpress / Fleye Press, 1968. Top fore corner bent over with a few pages creased. Not dated, but Blewointment bibliography cites 1968. Poems.. First Edition. Chapbook. Very Good Plus..

Vancouver: Vancouver Community Press, 1972. Fore corners bent and creased and paper remnants (book plate?) on inside of front cover. Poems with drawings by Bird Hamiliton of Argenta, BC. Vancouver Community Press Writing Series No. 9; 400 copies printed at the Root Cellar Press.. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good Plus..

Lantzville, BC: Island Writing Series, 1981. Boards bound in brown leatherette with gilt lettering on spine; text printed in black on heavy cream paper. Published in an edition of five hundred copies with 26 bound in cloth, lettered and signed by the author; this hardcover copy is out of series being neither lettered or signed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued.