Purdy Sam Solecki (47 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A selection of poems by the man described by the Globe & Mail as "the greatest of our poets." Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets includes three decades' worth of thought-provoking work, including poems from the Governor-General's Award-winning The Cariboo Horses to Naked with Summer in Your Mouth. Purdy personally made this selection, assisted by Sam Solecki, the editor of Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy. In these poems, Purdy ponders the remains of a Native village; encounters Fidel Castro in Revolutionary Square; curses a noisy cellmate in the drunk tank; and marvels at the "combination of ballet and murder" known as hockey, all in the author's inimitable man-on-the-street style. Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets is destined to become the standard Purdy poetry volume for many years to come.…

Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Thin Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Near Fine Plus. First Edition. Owner inscription, in pencil, inside front cover. 148 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Canadian First. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Canadian First. Inscribed by Al Purdy on the half-title page: For__from__ with best wishes via Al Purdy'; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.

First edition SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. Fine and bright blue boards in like glossy pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Few like Al Purdy, the voice of the northern lands (Canada) with travel pieces from the outback of Canada and the Arctic to the writing life with portraits of authors and poets. Inscribed and signed by the editor on the full title page.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In this fascinating and funny collection of correspondence, Canada's greatest poet lets it all hang out in spirited private exchanges with Pierre Trudeau, Carol Shields, Earle Birney, Anna Porter, Charles Bukowski, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Jack McClelland, Northrup Frye, William Golding, Darryl Sittler, Alistair MacLeod, Susan Musgrave, Irving Layton, Lynn Crosbie, George Bowering, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Brodsky and many other notables. Yours, Al is an uncensored, intimate glimpse into the life of Canada's most celebrated poet. Al Purdy's personal letters present the Can-lit scene as an ongoing conversation between members of a tight, supportive community spanning generations of talented writers. From generous encouragement to brash, unsparing insults--it's all here, with responses from many recipients of his letters. Encompassing more than fifty years, the letters show Purdy at his best--and his worst. "Dear John: I was down in your neck or coccyx of the woods last week and put my arms around an ex-pro boxer's wife in a drunken euphoria and nearly got my profile altered to 7500 A.D. . . . Dear Louis: I was just talking to Peter Brown and he says you hate me . . . What a waste of time. . . . Dear Buc: I always used to tell Birney if he died before me I was gonna grind him up and marinate him for an aphrodisiac. I like the guy, but never could figure out his apparent attraction to women . . ." --from various letters Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Yours, Al: The Collected Letters of Al Purdy, Purdy, Al; edited by Sam Solecki. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, B.C., 2004. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 560pp. Contents in fine, unread condition with light outer edge dusting lower front edge. Dustjacket has very light rubbing to edges and is otherwise, fine. Includes the private exchanges with Pierre Trudeau, Carol Shields, Earle Birney, Anna Porter, Charles Bukowski, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Gwendolyn MacEwan, Jack McClelland, Northrup Frye, William Golding, Darryl Sittler, Alistair MacLeod, Susan Musgrave, Irving Layton, Lynn Crosbie, George Bowering, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Brodsky and many other notables. Yours, Al is an uncensored, intimate glimpse into the life of Canada's most celebrated poet.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, unread copy in a fine jacket with 2 different publisher's promo sheets laid in.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First edition 2000. Published by Harbour Publishing, Canada. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no markings of any kind, no names, no uJ new, no edgewear, no shelfwear, no tears, no chips, not clipped. Thick 8vo, 608 pages. Large book may require additional postage for international orders. …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 560 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. Clean bright copy. Weighs 1058 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 606 pp. Blue boards lettered in silver on the spine; blue endpapers; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. There are far too many poems to list them all here, but some of the highlights are: At Evergreen Cemetery; Archaeology of Snow; Rural Henhouse at Night; Remains of an Indian Village; The Cariboo Horses; Thank God I'm Normal; Necropsy of Love; Hockey Players; The Viper's Muse; Method for Calling Up Ghosts; Eskimo Graveyard; The Sculptors; Dream of Havana; Watching Trains; Wilderness Gothic; The Road to Newfoundland; Idiot's Song; Flying Over Africa; Arctic Romance; The Battlefield at Batoche; The Hunting Camp; Borderlands; Starlings; D. H. Lawrence at Lake Chapala; Lost in the Badlands; The Blue City; In Cabbagetown; Caesar at Troy; On the Flood Plain; The Gossamer Ending; Concerning Ms Atwood; Lament for Bukowski; To Paris Never Again; For Norma in Lieu of an Orgasm; At the Quinte Hotel; and many many more. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Thin Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by author on half-title page "For ___ / [indicipherable} the foggy foggy dew of both Vancouver & London / Al Purdy". 148 pages.