Atwood, Margaret, George Woodcock, A. W. Purdy et al (conts.) W. H. New (ed.)

Canadian Literature No. 45

UBC, 1970. 1st. Paperback. First printing. 104 pp. 8vo, trade softcover. Atwood writes on Gwendolyn MacEwen. VG copy with light wear. Very Good.

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Book number: 787463

Catalogue: Canadian Litcrit

[Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Amis du Peuple Cubain]; Al Purdy; Doroty Steeves; Fidel Castro;

Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Summer '64 ; Featuring a Report on the Canadian Students' Work Tour to Cuba, A Poem by Al Purdy, Impressions by Dorothy Steeves including excerpts from Castro's May Day Speech '64

Toronto, Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Amis du Peuple Cubain, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 36. 12mo. measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. No detectable flaws, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. Contents include: Al Purdy writes on his visit; Unionists visit to Canada; Amigos de Cuba; Hurricaine Relief Fund; Poem to the Sailors on the "Oxford"; Portion of Castro's May Day Speech, and much else. Scarce in commerce. On June 30th the first group of Canadian students will leave from Eastern Canada for Cuba where they will spend from six to eight weeks working with and talking to Cubans from all walks of life. The second group leaves on July 3rd from points west of Winnipeg and will join up in Mexico City before proceeding to Havana. A total of 45 students will participate in the program and will be led by Captain David Middleton, a retired Canadian army officer. The group are representative of Canadian university students from Fredericton and Halifax on the east coast to Victoria on the west coast. Th students represent fifteen campuses in eight provinces and courses in engineering, science, accountancy, medicine, political science, philosophy, liberal arts, psychology, sociology, law, school teaching, library and theology. Some of the students are in post-graduate studies. The objective of the tour is two-fold: to work as a group on some project or projects alongside Cubans, thereby creating a bond of friendship leading to a better understanding between Cubans and Canadians, and secondly, to provide an opportunity for the group to assess the Cuban experiment in social reconstruction.

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Book number: 3764

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: politcal philosophy; communism; cuba; politics; ephemera; history; canadiana; canadian history; trudeau; foreign policy; education; periodical

George Woodcock (ed.); Milton Wilson, A.J.M. Smith, Dorothy Livesay, F.R. Scott, A.W. Purdy, Ralph Gustafson et al (contributors)

Canadian Literature/Litterature Canadienne, Numbers 29-32, 1966-67

Vancouver: UBC, 1966-67. Hard bound in blue cloth, library bindings with bright gilt titles to spine, 4 issues bound in a single volume to complete the years 1966-67 of the leading periodical on Canadian literature. Includes: Livesay on 'The Sculpture of Poetry' & 'Mazo Explored'; Smith on 'F.R. Scott & His Poems'; Purdy on 'Prose Birney'; Gustafson on 'New Wave in Canadian Poetry', etc.. Four issues bound together, so section paginated (84pp, 84pp, 84pp & 104pp). Tight and clean - a very good or better ex-library copy. 1.14 kilograms unpacked - depending on destination, additional postage may be requested!

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Book number: 2655

Catalogue: Essays/Letters/Criticism

Keywords: Bound Periodical Literature Canada Periodicals/Magazines Periodicals/Journals

AL PURDY - RODERICK HAIG-BROWN

Cougar Hunter: A Memoir of Roderick Haig-Brown. {Limited Edition. Copy Number 1}.

Vancouver, British Columbia. The Phoenix Press. 1992. Limited edition. Book number 1 of 15 copies published. Octavo (9 x 6). 80 pp. including the colophon. The book is signed by Al Purdy and Alex Widen on the limitation page. Without explanation this copy number 1 does not have Jim Rimmer’s colored illustration of cougar tipped-in on the title page. Black and white photos, with a full-page text diagram drawn by Haig-Brown. The bulk of the book with interesting and revealing exchanges of correspondence between Al Purdy and Roderick Haig-Brown, dating from 1974 through 1976, with Purdy’s "The Death of a Friend" an especially memorable tribute to the life and spirit of Roderick Haig-Brown. The book’s title "Cougar Hunter" was taken from Purdy’s same titled essay in the final chapter, and it’s a beautiful, striking, thoughtful biography of Roderick Haig-Brown. Al Purdy and Alex Widen formed a partnership in 1992 to publish Cougar Hunter under the banner of The Phoenix Press; Al the writer and poet, Alex the printer. The book is bound in brown morocco leather spine and brown cloth boards, with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. A fine, beautiful book. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 011134

HUTTON, ERIC; COLLINS, ROBERT; MOON, BARBARA; FRASER, BLAIR; FRAYNE, TRENT; STEPHENSON, BILL; PURDY, KEN W.; HEDGES, DORIS; ET AL

Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, January (Jan. ) 19, 1957 - Victoria's Crystal Garden Cover Illustration / Howie Meeker

Montreal: Maclean Hunter, 1957. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Hill, James (Cover Art); Cahen, Oscar. Features: Cover painting by James Hill depicts a pleasant scene in Victoria's Crystal Garden; Nice Colour ad for the Tea Council of Canada inside front cover; One-page Bank of Montreal (BMO) presents bankbook as a 'passport to better living'; Editorial about Mr. Pickersgill and Canada's policy re: Hungarian refugees; One page 1957 DeSeto car ad (yellow with white trim); Rev. William Jenkins explains why he is against the United Fund; One-page ad for Gilson appliances; Careers in Canada - there are more jobs than people to fill them; Gretta Graffin's Grueling Pilgrimage on foot across Europe; Pierre Radisson - Canada's answer to Davy Crockett - he'll soon be featured on Canadian TV; Blair Fraser Reports from Cairo - article with photo of Colonel Nasser and General Burns; A Gift From El Presidente (short story); Is Howie (Howard William) Meeker Tough Enough to Lick the NHL? - the Maple Leafs hire a rough-and-tumble coach - photo-illustrated article; Your amiable cousin, the sea gull; Nice one-page colour ad for 1957 Pontiac cars (white car shown); One-page colour-photo Canadian Club ad features photos of Portuguese tuna trapping; BOAC ad features black and white photo of gourmet meal being served onboard; O'Keefe Ale ad features colour photo of CF-100 jet fighter beside knight on horse; Colour photo ad for the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel in Washington; Vintage colour-photo ad for Heinz spaghetti shows daughter dumping pot onto dad's plate; Dow Ale features colour hockey illustration; Nice one-page colour ad features pink 1957 Chevrolet ('57 Chevy); Doris Hedges describes her most memorable meal; Colour-photo ad for the 1957 Studebaker-Packard; Attractive colour-photo 1957 Plymouth ad inside back cover; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad features young couple with portable record player (phonograph); and more. 60 pages. Average wear. Unmarked. Small chip from bottom corner of front cover. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, January (Jan.) 19, 1957 - Victoria's Crystal Garden Cover Photo Cover painting by James Hill depicts a pleasant scene in Victoria's Crystal Garden; Nice Colour ad for the Tea Council of Canada inside front cover; O. Good .

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Book number: 201g4707

Keywords: ' ' (. ) 19 1957 Victoria's ; ; British Columbia Issues

James Laughlin; James Purdy, Delmore Schwartz, Michael McClure, Gilbert Sorrentino, et al.

New Directions: An International Anthology of Prose & Poetry 32

New York: New Directions, 1975. 8vo. 186 pp. Soft Covers, Very Good+. Signed dedication on page 132 from James Purdy (one of the contributors) to Herb Yellin, Lord John Press, Hartridge, CA. .

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Book number: 15-11492

Catalogue: Books

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.

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, May 1971 - John Turner Cover Photo / Neil Young Article

Toronto: Maclean Hunter, 1971. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. De Visser, John. 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. Good .

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Book number: 813g1276

Keywords: ' ' 1971 's ; ; ( ) ; ( Canadiana Hockey Back Issues

Layton, Irving, Al Purdy, Dorothy Livesay et al.

Tamarack Review Issue 39

Universtiy of Toronto Press, 1966, 1966. Soft cover. First printing. 8vo, softcover. VG copy with light wear to covers.

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Book number: 782193

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Lenz, Liggett, Purdy, Shepard, Smith, Street, et al,

The Official System of Contract Bridge.

Philadelphia, Winston, (1932). VG in G DJ. Brown felted binding, gilt lettering and decoration, yellow DJ with edge wear. Photos of sponsors on endpapers. Owner name. DJ damp stain inside.

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Book number: BOOKS045915I

Catalogue: Games

Metayer, Maurice; Al Purdy [foreword]

Tales from the Igloo

Edmonton, Hurtig Pub, 1972. Paperback. pp. 127. Oblong 8vo. Colour illustrations. Light shelfwear, age toning, ink inscription and scribble to title page (ink bleed to following two pages); very good-. Ill.: Agnes Nanogak.

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Book number: 090682

Catalogue: Indigenous Studies

Keywords: Agnes Nanogak

George Woodcock (ed.); Louis Dudek; Maria Tippett; Al Purdy et al (contributors)

Canadian Literature/Litterature Canadienne, Numbers 70-73, 1976-77

Vancouver: UBC, 1976-77. Hard bound in blue cloth, library bindings with bright gilt titles to spine, 4 issues bound in a single volume to complete the years 1976-77 of the leading periodical on Canadian literature. Includes: Louis Dudek on 'The Psychology of Literature'; Tippett on Emily Carr's 'Klee Wyck'; Purdy on 'Tribute to Everson's 'Indian Summer', etc.. Four issues bound together, so section paginated (Pp112, Pp112, Pp96, & 128pp). Tight and clean - a very good or better ex-library copy. 1.12 kilograms unpacked - depending on destination, additional postage may be requested!

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Book number: 2664

Catalogue: Essays/Letters/Criticism

Keywords: Bound Periodical Literature Canada Periodicals/Magazines Periodicals/Journals

Purdy, Al

Emu, Remember. Signed

Fredericton, University of New Brunswick, 1956. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition of Purdy's third book Signed by him on the inside front cover. A near fine copy in the publisher's illustrated stiff card wrappers, with some archival repair to tiny chips at the ends of pp. 11 to pp. 16 and the back cover. 8vo. 16 pp. .

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Book number: 28506

Catalogue: Can Lit & Other Greatness

Keywords: CAN/LIT HIGHLIGHT Electronic List TBCL A Poetry Beat

Purdy, Al

Hiroshima Poems. Signed

Trumansburg, The Crossing Press, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Author. Purdy, Al. HIROSHIMA POEMS. Signed. Trumansburg: The Crossing Press, 1972. First Edition, Inscribed by Al Purdy to poet John Newlove on the front free endpaper. 'For John, now receiving overdue recognition - some poems concerning death and morality, that last summer, an embarrassing thing to talk about, all the best Al'. John Newlove's copy with his signature and date on the inside front cover. A very good copy in illustrated stiff card wrappers, a gentle dampstain throughout that does not detract from the importance of this wonderful association. 8vo. Unpaginated. 20 pp. .

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Book number: 32965

Catalogue: Can Lit & Other Greatness

Keywords: Canadian Literature, Poetry, Al Purdy Presentation & Inscribed Copies Association & Dedication Copies Electronic List TBCL A Poetry Beat

Purdy, Al

love in a Burning Building

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover in cream cloth. No dust jacket. Text is Fine with no owner's name, no wear. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 790067

Catalogue: Canadian Poetry

PURDY, AL; DESBARATS, PETER; SALTER, TORI; BATTEN, JACK; FLECK, JAMES; CHAZOTTES, M.L.; SHACKLETON, DORIS F.; HAMILTON, BELLE

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, January (Jan. ) 1971 - the Battle to Keep Vancouver Livable / Bruce Cockburn

Canada: Maclean-Hunter, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. 64 pages. Features: CBC The National colour-photo ad features Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad; We Can Keeep Vancouver Livable; Shirley Chan of Strathcona beat back bulldozers and scared City Hall; Gastown developer Larry Killam brought swingers into the slum; SPEC's Robin Harger confronts 'the extinction of the human race'; Mike Harcourt and the law squad; Intermedia's Barry Cramer and media technology; Albert Turnbull, Arthur Erickson, Dr. George Gray, William Graham, and Dr. Walter Harswick draw guidelines to keep Vancouver livable; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for the Lockheed 1011 Tristar; From Bruce Cockburn to Youth - A Very Private Message; How Jasper Park is moving into the 1970s; The Real Poor in Canada and why we don't know who they are; Contest to design trophy for the air race of the century; How Kings County, NS found the cure for despair; How to spot the danger point in drinking; Bilingualism and Biculturalism; Crossword partly completed in light pencil; Great color photo ad for CBC Sports includes group of athletes including Mel Profit of the Argos and boxer Clyde Grey; and more. Average wear. Damage to fore-edge of back cover. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, January (Jan.) 1971 - The Battle to Keep Vancouver Livable CBC The National colour-photo ad features Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad; We Can Keeep Vancouver Livable; Shirley Chan of Strathcona beat back bulldoz. Good .

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Book number: 838g4406

Keywords: Maclean' ' (. ) 1971 Colour ; ; British Columbia Issues Music