Search Results: Titles starting with R from Purpora Books

(Saskatoon): CFQC Radio, 1973. Stories about the RCMP originally broadcast on the radio. 120 pages with index.. First Edition. Booklet. Near Fine Plus..

Montreal: RCA Victor Company, 1950. Corner creasing, record store stamp on front and back cover, and faint stain on fore edge margin of a few pages; otherwise internally clean and unmarked. Complete catalogue of all RCA Victor Bluebird Records released up to and including August 1950. Listings arranged alphabetically by song name and artist. 32 pages.. Pamphlet. Very Good Plus..

New York: Free Press / Simon & Schuster, 2003. A novel, 339 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982. Dust jacket is price-clipped; overall, an excellent copy. Canadian author's first book (as editor), an anthology of the rabbit and the hare in history, literature and legend: "The magic and mischief, legend and lore of those fleet-footed, randy, roguish, hare-brained, four-footed beasts"; colour and B/W illustrations throughout.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus.

Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 1985. Slight fading along spine fold. 28 pages.. First Edition. Booklet. Near Fine..

London, ON: Brick, 1991. Publisher's promo sheet laid-in. British-born Canadian writer's first book, a collection of poems, loosely organized around various foods.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

London, ON: Brick, 1991. Very small brown stains on rear spine fold; internally clean and tightly bound. British-born Canadian writer's first book, a collection of poems, loosely organized around various foods.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Warsaw: Radar, 1964. 9 1/2" x 13 1/2", folded once horizontally, probably for mailing, creases bottom of front cover, and small dime-sized hole in one leaf (a paper defect) Articles on film, music, sport, etc. in English. This issue has an article by Henryk Korotynski "Auschwitz: Truth and Punishment". Author was a former inmate of the Auschwitz death camp. And four pages with stills from the Polish film "The End of Our World", written and directed by Wanda Jakubowska, who for years was a prisoner of Auschwitz. Cover illustration of Teresa Wicinska who has a leading role in the film mentioned above. 32 pages including the covers.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good..

Warsaw: Radar, 1964. 9 1/2" x 13 1/2"; folded once horizontally, probably for mailing, and the final two leaves have a 3" tear along the fold line. Articles on film, music, sport, etc. in English. This issue has an article the Polish film "A Damsel in a Window" with stills from the movie. Cover illustration of Mrs. Danuta Kobylinska, Polish captain of an ocean-going vessel. 32 pages including the covers.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good..

Warsaw: Radar, 1965. 9 1/2" x 13 1/2"; folded once horizontally, probably for mailing, bottom fore leaves dog-eared, a couple of very short tears top of front cover, and staples rusty.. Articles on film, music, sport, etc. in English. This issue has an article on the Polish horror film "Manuscript Found in Saragossa" based on Jan Potocki's story of the same title, with stills from the movie. Cover illustration of Ella Fitzgerald who appeared in Warsaw in April 1965. 32 pages including the covers.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good..

Warsaw: Radar, 1966. 9 1/2" x 13 1/2", folded once horizontally, probably for mailing. Articles on film, music, sport, etc. all in German. 48 pages including the covers.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good Plus..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988. Collection of new poems.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

New York: Bantam, 1988. First edition. Paperback original in pictorial wraps. Near fine plus copy. Author's second book..

Somerville, MA: Radix, 1964. Pamphlet sized, 56 pages. Long diagonal crease on rear cover, otherwise a nice copy. Text is typescript in sepia colour. Poems, one by Gerard Malanga, and articles.. First Edition. Stapled in Wraps. Near Fine.. Literary Periodical.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. Stiff paper cover. With crease on front cover next to spine and price neatly blacked out on front cover. Poems.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1979. Three inch corner crease bottom of rear cover, else fine. Canadian author's third book of poetry, printed in an edition of 500 copies.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Milano: Marco Tropea Editore, 1998. Cover with flaps. Originally published in Canada in 1993. Signed by author on title page. 102 pages.. Signed by Author. First Italian Language Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Milano: Marco Tropea Editore, 1998. Cover with flaps. Originally published in Canada in 1993. Signed by author on title page. 102 pages.. Signed by Author. First Italian Language Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Minor wear to ends of spine, faint children's printing on bottom of page block, otherwise clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has minor wear top of flap folds and ends of spine panel. Originally published by Harper in 193, this reprint is Grosset's Great Western Edition 27. The rear flap advertises "Forlorn River" and rear panel has list of 53 Zane Grey books published by Grosset & Dunlap. The illustration is the same as the first edition but has been broken into two bordered pieces, one on the front panel and one of the spine panel. 332 pages. A pretty decent copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.

New York: Norton, 1995. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has a short tear top of rear flap fold. 276 pages.. First US Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.