Purdy Walter (14 results)

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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Wraps have light wear, spine unbent. Author inscribed blank page facing copyright. Pages are clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Inscribed By Author.

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

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Red cloth boards have light wear, dried glue ring on front. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [New York]: A New Directions Book 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition. 179 pages, illustrated. Very good with lower corner creasing to the rear cover] with a remainder mark to the top and bottom edges. whb11E.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have fading at spine, address label on back, general light handling wear. ; Contents: Smith, Orson Welles and the great American dummy - or, the rise and fall and regeneration of Benjamin Franklin's model American. Mass, A linking of legends: The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane. Atkins, In search of the greatest Gatsby. Jones, Green thoughts in a technicolor shade: a revaluation of The Great Gatsby. Purdy, Can the novel and the film disappear? Cunningham, Linsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! and the romantic tradition. Zambrano, Throne of Blood: Kurosawa's Macbeth. Campbell, Beethoven, Chopin, and Tammy Wynette: heroines and archetypes in Five Easy Pieces. Korte, Godard's adaptation of Moravia's Contempt. Film notes and queries. ; 9.0" tall; 96 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 8vo, 250 pp. "Compliments of the Publisher" slip laid in. Light superficial insect damage at spine and extremities, extremities lighlty bumped, page edges tanned and foxed, slight discoloration to endpapers, light foxing to a few pages. Jacket foxed and worn with numerous small chips and tears.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Trade Size Paperback. International Anthology of Prose and Poetry. First Printing. 182 pages. VERY FINE. All corners pointed. Binding firm, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, chips or bumps. With slight wear to bottom right corner. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. An international anthology of new and variant trends in prose and poetry. Near Fine with Near Fine dustjacket. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 53, No. 5. Pulp magazine. Edited by Frank Quinn. Cover art by Alan Foster. Includes "Not Without Honor" by Will Irwin; "Football Fans Can't Crash His Gate" by John Tunis; "Risking Your Neck for Camera News" by Harriet Works Corley; "The Last White Line" by Octavus Roy Cohen; "He's "Bill" Jardine in Kansas" by Herbert Corey; "You've Got to Have Nerve" by Nina Purdy; "The Man They Hanged" (novel) by Robert W. Chambers; "Taxi Meet 'Er" by Edwin Palmer; "A Skyscraper Schoolmaster" by Elizabeth Gertrude Stern; "He's Won 6,000 Horse-Races" by Walter S. Hiatt; "Money Is Useful" by William Almon Wolff; "Opera Begins at Home" by Stanley Olmstead; "Women and Dolls" by Stella Burke May; "The Best Love-Story i Ever Read" (contest letters); "The Cask of Amontillado" (Old Short Story) by Edgar Allan poe; "The Duchess at Prayer" (Modern Short Story) by Edith Wharton; "We Must March" (novel) by Honore Willsie Morrow; "The Aerial Weather Man" by Q. Wood; "The Champion Prize Winner" by Frances Dewey McMullen; "A $60,000 Peony Bed" by M. H. Malone; "Hers is a New Profession" by George F. Paul; "Everybody's Chesnut Tree". Illustrated by S. George Phillips, H. T. Fisk, Gayle Hoskins, Tony Sarg, Otto J. Gatter, Dominick Commerota, John R. Pierce, and J. Scott Williams. Creasing; writing on front ansd same on rear, but not erased; rubbing. Magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($6.75) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Anthologies.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. George Hughes (cover); Morgan Kane; Bob Lavin; Mac Conner; Walter Skor; Stan Galli (illustrator). First Edition. 122 pages. Features: Color-photo red Rambler car ad inside front cover; Photo ad for St. Louis includes Don Bush, Thelma Blumberg and Jack Zehrt; Schlitz color-photo ad of couple playing Monopoly; G.E. ad features pink washer and dryer; Half-page color Hires Root Beer ad; Two-page photo ad for Allied Van Lines; President of Columbia University says "College Shouldn't Take Four Years"; Newport - Kentucky's Open City; Aerial photo of suburban Palm Springs with dozens of pools and nary a green plant in sight; Gamber's Girl - short story; Great photo-illustrated article on Debbie Reynolds; Color-photo-illustrated article on the Sebring twelve-hour endurance auto race in Sebring, Florida; Emergency Flight (short story); They Volunteer to Suffer - test subjects at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health; Cuba - State of Confusion - fantastically photo-illustrated article, including Che Guevara; Let Yourself Go (short story); Norman Rockwell - My Adventures as an Illustrator (part 7); Marked for Death (short story); Moon Pilot (short story); Fisher body ad features photo of green Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight convertible; Night Without End (short story); Champion Spark Plug ad features photos of Mickey Thompson, Rodger Ward, Hugh Entrop and Max Conrad; *Beautiful* color-photo-ad for the 1960 (black) Chrysler Imperial; Color Tecumseh motor ad; Color ad for the Studebaker Lark car shows a pale green convertible at mail box; Color ad for Admiral fridges; Two-page Canadian Pacific color ad shows globe and illustrations of CP train, ship and airplane; Pepsi ad shows scene in horse barn with dalmation; Johnson outboard motor color-photo ad for the V-75; Arrow shirt ad features large color photo of glamorous evening scene in New York's Shubert Alley; and more. Nibbling to periphery of covers, otherwise a worthy vintage copy with average wear.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Falter, John (cover); Briggs, Austin; Kane, Morgan; Bowler, Joe; Skove, Walter; Dohanos, Stevan; (illustrator). First Edition. 104 pages. Fiction: Miss Carlsen is Mine; The Girl Who Had Accidents; Disaster oin the Outback; Botts Takes the Bait; Frame-up for Murder (part 1 of 3); The Chains of Fear (part 5 of 8). Articles: Our First Man in Outer Space - great photos of Scotty Crossfield who will be aboard the X-15; The Man Who Talks to Tapirs - Harry Gillmore in Sumatra - with photos; Our Houseboat Vacation; The Post Reports on Health Insurance - Part III - Is This the pattern of the future?; The Face of America - The Perfect Month - sensational large color photo of dozens of youths jumping from and swimming at the North Cove Bridge over the North Fork Catawba River; I Call on Lawrence Welk - great photos; Gold Rush Every Weekend.in California - great color photos of gold seekers in action. Ads: Very nostalgic color-photo two-page ad for Frigidaire's frost-proof refrigerator-freezer (blue); 1958 Ford cars; Chevrolet cars; Old Gold cigarettes; L&M cigarettes; Johnson & Johhson first aid ad shows boy diving into water beside lobster; Johnson Sea Horse outboard motor color-photo ad; Koppers ad includes large color photo of Ice Capades 18th Edition/1958; Lucky Strike color-photo ad on back cover shows young smokers playing golf, tennis and sunning. Slight loss to fore-edge of front cover. Moderate wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Curtin, Walter (Cover Photo); Cameron, Duncan; Mitchell,Charles; Gelinas, Paul; Ehricht, Horst; Herschtritt, Leon; Aliman, Gene;De Visser, John (illustrator). First Edition. 80 pages. Features: Al Purdy's Canada; John Turner - The Once and Future Contender; There is so a (goreous, sexy) life after thirty; How to Watch the Stanley Cup - by Jacques Plante (with photo of Plante); What Quebec Wants to Be - by Claude Ryan; Neil Young - My Brother the Folk Singer - article by Bob Young with photos of Neil; The New Sourdoughs - colour photos and write-ups of people drawn to Northern Canada, including Freddy Carmichael, Paul White, Mel Deines, Daryle Brown, Pete Cowie and Jim Robertson; Hostel Holidays in Europe; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, May 1971 - John Turner Cover Photo Al Purdy's Canada; John Turner - The Once and Future Contender; There is so a (goreous, sexy) life after thirty; How to Watch the Stanley Cup - by Jacques Plante (with photo of Pla.