WHY collections are interesting and worth collecting or the importance of collections.
Date Published: 1945 to 1997 Binding: No binding & hard cover This collection is comprised of 29 items dating from 1945 to 1997, specifically, 20 letters, 6 books, 1 manuscript, 1 card, and 1 news clippings. Julian Gustave Symons was a British crime writer and poet who also wrote social..... More
Date Published: 1909 to 1941 Binding: No binding & hard cover Booth Tarkington was an American novelist, dramatist, and Pulitzer Prize winner. During the 1910s and 1920s, he was considered America’s greatest living author. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than..... More
Date Published: 1982 to 1997 Binding: No binding & hard cover Anne Tyler is a celebrated American novelist, short story writer, screen write and literary critic. She was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. The collection contains 8 items dating from..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1842 to 1996 Binding: No binding & hard cover The collection has original material pertaining to 22 American women poets, dating from 1842-1996 a total of 63 items, specifically 30 letters, 14 pieces of ephemera, 8 typescripts / manuscripts, 8 books..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1842 to 1982 Binding: No binding & hard cover 14 authors are represented in this collection including 33 items dating from 1842 to 1982 specifically 19 letters, 6 photos, 6 books, 1 note, and 1 brochure. BENCHLY, Nathaniel (American novelist, humorist..... More
Toronto & Montreal. Place Published: Toronto & Montreal Date Published: [1837 to 1858 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Rare broadside. 1) Caption Title. To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty. Most Gracious Sovereign: No place, no publisher, no date (before 1837). 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches, 1 page. Disbound, small holes..... More
Date Published: 1650, 1789, 1817 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Three early classic works on the Italian merchant Amerigo Vespucci, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence who allegedly undertook several voyages to the “New World”. In recognition of his explorations, the cartographer Martin Waldweemüller latinized his name as..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1870 to 1937 Binding: No binding & hard cover The collection has 10 items dating from 1870 to 1937, specifically, 2 books, 4 letters, 2 post cards, 1 photo, 1 carte de visite, and 1 label with an address. The collection..... More
Date Published: 1911 to 1941 Binding: No binding & hard cover Hugh Walpole was a New Zealand-born prolific, best-selling English novelist. He wrote between 1909 and 1941 thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two original plays and three volumes of memoirs. The collection consists of 31 items dating from..... More
Date Published: 1863 to 1894 Binding: No binding & hard cover Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, lawyer. After the Clemens family moved to Hartford in 1871, Warner and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) became friends, and collaborated on The Gilded Age (1873–74). It is for his share..... More
Date Published: 1900 to 1939 Binding: No binding & hard cover Carolyn Wells was a prolific American poet, mystery novelist, and children’s author, who married Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire. Wells often traveled to England and cultivated a wide circle of literary friends on both sides..... More
Date Published: 1916 to 1968 Binding: William Allen White was an American newspaper editor, politician, poet, novelist, biographer of presidents, a founding editor of the Book of the Month Club, “the Sage of Emporia”). He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. In 1947 White posthumously won his..... More
Date Published: 1900 to 1938 Binding: No binding & hard cover Kate Douglas Wiggin was the author of numerous children's books, notably, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; she also founded the first free kindergarten in San Francisco, and devoted much of her working life to children's welfare and charities. While Wiggin’s..... More
Date Published: 1941 to 1944 Binding: Wendell Lewis Willkie was an American lawyer, corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican nominee for President of the United States. Walter Lippmann believed Willkie's nomination to have been crucial to Britain's survival, "second only to the Battle of Britain, the sudden rise and..... More
Date Published: [1906] to 1944 Binding: No binding COLETTE WAS GIVEN A STATE FUNERAL IN FRANCE Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was of the most famous of modern French writers and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. She wrote over 50 novels including Gigi (1944), and "Cheri" (1920) She was..... More
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1922 to 1938 Binding: No binding & hard cover Owen Wister dubbed the father of Western fiction, was a prolific novelist, short story writer, biographer, and historian. His most famous work is The Virginian (1902), a novel set in the Wyoming..... More