Search Results: Titles starting with V from Purpora Books

Endinburgh: Canongate / Q, 1979. Bottom tips bumped, light shelf wear along edges of boards and previous owner name at top of front free endpaper; dust jacket has minor edge wear. Author was arrested on the Iranian border and imprisoned in Vakil Abad, one of the Shah's biggest and most modern prisons, for two and a half years.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Near Fine.

London: Ian Allan, 1970. 56 pages with many B&W illustrations.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good Plus..

London: Longmans Green, 1903. Bound in black cloth with three gilt coats of arms on upper board and gilt lettering on spine. Tips with very minor rubs, black endpapers, owner name on verso of front free endpaper, small faint rubber stamp (old) on next page, with gutter cracked between these two pages; otherwise internally clean and unmarked and reasonably soundly bound. 366 pages with index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Dust Jacket.

Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1974. Bound in tan-brown paper over boards with white lettering on spine. Edges of boards rubbed. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has a 1 1/2" x 1 1/2' ragged triangular tear top of front panel next to spine, and rubs to tips and edges of folds. New and completely revised from the book originally published in 1961, including a new foreword. 187 pages with illustrations by Wheeler and Taylor plus some B&W illustrations from photos bound in.. Second Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Good Plus. Illus. by P. W. Wheeler & Roy Taylor.

Ottawa: Veterans Affairs Canada, 1998. 8 1/2" x 11"; 33 pages of text. B/W photo illustrations.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Near Fine Plus..

Lantzville, BC: Oolichan, 1993. First edition. Trade paperback original with flaps. Near fine plus. Canadian author's first novel.. First Edition.

London: Ward Lock, 1909. Bound in black cloth with bright art deco decorations on upper board and on spine with gilt lettering as well. Cloth rubbed at the tips and ends of spine, offsetting of free endpapers, and owner name (in pencil) on front free endpaper; otherwise internally clean, unmarked and fairly tightly bound. 304 pages plus 16 pages of publisher's ads bound in at rear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Waterloo, Iowa: Dairy Farmer, 1911. Bound in cream wraps with insect damage top of front cover and a chip on fore edge of back cover, both approximately 1/2" x 1/2" in size, and other light markings on covers. 83 pages with versos having full page illustrations from photos of cows. Ads for the De Laval Separator.. Booklet. Very Good..

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985. Soft corner crease top of front cover. Collection of stories from many of Canada's famous authors (Pauline Johnson, Emily Carr, Malcolm Lowry, Ethel Wilson, Alice Munro, etc), spanning nearly eighty years, presenting the experience of living in Vancouver. 166 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Vancouver: Vancouver Poetry Centre, 1979. A single large sheet of newsprint, folded once vertically to make four pages, 11 1/2" x 16 3/4". Additionally folded once horizontally for mailing. Paper tanned, minor corner creases, mailing label and postage stamp. Interview with Daphne Marlatt, announcements and ads.. First Edition. Tabloid. Very Good.. Literary Periodical.

Vancouver: Vancouver Poetry Centre, 1979. A single large sheet of newsprint, folded once vertically to make four pages, 11 1/2" x 16 3/4". Additionally folded once horizontally for mailing. Paper tanned, mailing label and postage stamp. Interview with George Bowering, announcements and ads.. First Edition. Tabloid. Very Good.. Literary Periodical.

Vancouver / Seattle: Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington, 1992. Large oblong, 10 1/4" x 9 3/8". 131 pages with B&W historical engravings and colour photos taken by Gary Fiegehen.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine.

(Vancouver): Consolidated Merriment, 1981. Minor wear to edges of covers. An eh? to Z (Airlines to Zoos) of Vancouver interspersed with B&W illustrations from photos and cartoons by Kluckner; 221 pages.. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Very Good Plus..

Winlaw, BC: Polestar, 1986. Tips gently bumped. Blurb from the rear cover "Perhaps no city of its size in North America has equalled Vancouver for frenetic literary activity. Vancouver Poetry is an informal social history as well as a literary montage that documents a city that has been particularly nourishing to poetry." 197 pages.. First Dutch Language Edition. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine..

Saanichton, BC: Hancock House, 1974. Large format, 8 1/4" x 10 3/4". 96 pages. Inscribed on the half-title page "Best wishes from the author / Derek Pethick / March 1981".. Signed by Author. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Vancouver: Raincoast, 2005. Collection of a wide array of short fiction by George Bowering, Wayson Choy, William Gibson, Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Lee Maracle, Alice Munro, Ethel Wilson and others. 338 pages.. Third Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine Plus..

Vancouver: New Star, 2008. 125 pages. Signed by the author on the title page.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Vancouver: Archives Society of Vancouver, 1967. Reprint. Various articles about early Vancouver, some historical documents in facsimile, with B&W illustrations from photos. Glossy cover and text pages. 70 pages.. Second Printing. Pamphlet. Near Fine Plus..

Vancouver & Hollywood: Greenwood, 1936. Single sheet, 19" x 12 1/2", folded once vertically to make four pages. Owner name on front cover, a little light overall soiling, and a couple of short closed edge tears. B&W illustration on front cover, two pages of music and words, rear cover blank. "In my old Home Town Vancouver We will all have lots of fun, We will all unite in jollity and invite you all to come . . .". First Edition. Single Sheet. Very Good Plus.. Sheet Music.

Edmonton, AB: NeWest, 2005. Poems. Winner of the 2006 BC Book Prize for Poetry. 118 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..