Walter Purdy (12 results)

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Seller: Hawking Books, Edgewood, U.S.A.Hawking Books
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The American Singer : Book 7
William C. Bridgman; Louis Woodson Curtis; Richard C. Berg; Walter E. Purdy
Published by American Book Company
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Published by A New Directions Book, New York 1972
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- First Edition
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, U.S.A.biblioboy
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Add to basketpaperback. 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.

Film Literature Quarterly, Volume 2, Number 3 (Summer 1974). Fitzgerald, Welles, Kurosawa, Godard
Erskine, Thomas L. (ed.); Smith, Julian; Mass, Roslyn; Atkins, Irene Kahn; Jones, Edward T.; Purdy, Stother B.; Cunningham, Frank R.; Zambrano, Ana Laura; Campbell, Gregg M.; Korte, Walter
Published by Salisbury State College, Salisbury, Maryland 1974
- Softcover
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, U.S.A.Cat's Cradle Books
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. 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 Citi…zen 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. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.
Published by New Directions, New York 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
Contact seller1-star sellerCloth. 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 wit…h numerous small chips and tears.
More imagesPublished by New Directions, New York 1976
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- First Edition
Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, U.S.A.Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft 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.

ND New Directions in Prose and Poetry 28
Everson, William; Walter Abish; Ernesto Cardenal; Paul West; James Purdy; Frederick Busch; Jerome Rothernberg; J. Laughlin (editor) and Others
Published by New Directions, New York 1974
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, U.S.A.Good Books In The Woods
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 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.

EVERYBODY'S: November, Nov. 1925 ("The Man They Hanged"; "We Must March")
Everybody's (Will Irwin; John Tunis; Harriet Works Corley; Octavus Roy Cohen; Herbert Corey; Nina Purdy; Robert W. Chambers; Edwin palmer; Elizabeth Gertrude Stern; Walter S. Hiatt; William Almon Wolff; Stanley Olmstead; Stella Burke May; Edgar Allan poe; Edith Wharton; Honore Willsie Morrow; Q. Wood; Frances Dewey McMullen; M. H. Malone; George F. Paul)
Published by Ridgeway Co., NY 1925
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- Periodical
Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, U.S.A.Books from the Crypt
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Add to basketWraps. 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.
More imagesNew Directions 23: New Directions in Prose and Poetry 23 (First Edition)
J. Laughlin (editor); Walter Abish; Robert Bly; Alvaro de Campos; Marvin Cohen; Robert Duncan; Russell Edson; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Walter S. Hamady; Denise Levertov; James Purdy; Carl Rakosi; Yiannis Ritsos; Gary Snyder (contributors)
Published by New Directions, New York 1971
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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.

The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, March (Mar.) 26, 1960: College Shouldn't Take Four Years / Debbie Reynolds / Cuba / Norman Rockwell
W. Heuman; R. Sercombe; N.P. Mayorga; H. Pentecost; Dr. Grayson Kirk; Maxwell, J.; P. Martin; K.W. Purdy; H. Simons; H.M. Martin; Norman Rockwell; R. Buckner; A. MacLean
Published by Curtis Publishing Company, USA 1960
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- First Edition
- Periodical
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Fair. 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. George Hughes (cover); Morgan Kane; Bob Lavin; Mac Conner; Walter Skor; Stan Galli (illustrator).

The Saturday Evening Post, June 21 1958 - Lawrence Welk / A Nero Wolfe Mystery / Scotty Crossfield - Our First Man in Outer Space
Purdy, Ken; Findlay, D.; Lindall, Edward; Upson, William; Blair, Clay Jr.; Martin, Harold; Baum, Arthur; Silverman, Milton; Martin, Pete; Cahn, Robert; Stout, Rex; Narokov, Nikolai
Published by The Curtis Publishing Company, USA 1958
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- First Edition
- Periodical
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good. 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. Falter, John (cover); Briggs, Austin; Kane, Morgan; Bowler, Joe; Skove, Walter; Dohanos, Stevan; (illustrator).

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, May 1971 - John Turner Cover Photo / Neil Young Article
Langdon, Steven; Butson, Tom; Lemelin, Claude; Purdy, Al; Newman, Christina; McLean, Keitha; Plante, Jacques; Newman, Peter C.; Ryan, Claude; Bodsworth, Fred; Young, Bob; Carney, James and Pat; Kosoy, Ted; Compton, N.; Hofsess, J.; Macfarlane, J.
Published by Maclean Hunter, Toronto 1971
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- First Edition
- Periodical
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Add to basketSingle Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. 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. Illustrated by Curtin, Walter (Cover Photo); Cameron, Duncan; Mitchell,Charles; Gelinas, Paul; Ehricht, Horst; Herschtritt, Leon; Aliman, Gene;De Visser, John (illustrator).