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Date Published: 1848 to 1865 Binding: INCLUDES TWO EARLY HANDWRITTEN PATRIOTIC POEMS Black paper boards, quarter bound in plum leather, gilt tooling. Damage to the spine (black tape repair) and corners, and front cover separated. Some inside pages torn. Some foxing or age toning throughout and several tears and..... More
Date Published: 1874 to 1916 Binding: William Dean Howells nicknamed “The Dean of American Letters”, was a prolific realist novelist, literary critic (Atlantic Monthly), poet, and playwright. He was a close colleague and friend with many major American writers of the nineteenth century, including Henry Adams, William James, Henry..... More
Date Published: 1913-1951 Binding: No binding & hard cover MORE THAN 50 MOVIES WERE WRITTEN AND OR DIRECTED BY HUGHES Rupert Hughes was an American novelist, composer, musicologist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer and film director. More than 50 movies were written and/or directed by Hughes or were based upon his..... More
Date Published: 1865 to 1883 Binding: No binding Thomas Hughes was a British lawyer, judge, politician, social reformer and prolific author. His most famous work is the semi-autobiographical novel, Tom Brown’s School Days (1857). A Hughes Scholarship was founded at Oriel College, Oxford. It was a closed award, open only..... More
Date Published: 1922 to 1947 Binding: No binding & hard cover Arthur Stuart-Mentet Hutchinson was a British novelist and the editor of the London illustrated newspaper, The Daily Graphic. He wrote romance and family novels as well as short stories for publications such as The Sphere Magazine. His best-selling novel..... More
Date Published: 1881 to 1989 Binding: No binding & hard cover The Huxley family is a notable British family. Several family members have excelled in science, medicine, arts, and literature. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), the patriarch of the family, was a zoologist, comparative anatomist, and friend of Charles Darwin. His..... More
Date Published: 1900 to 1920 Binding: No binding & hard cover William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels, best known for his farcical comedies and his horror story, “The Monkey's Paw”. Louis N. Parker was an English dramatist, composer and translator. His 1911 Broadway play..... More
Date Published: 1888-1929 Binding: Various bindings Jerome K. Jerome was an English author best known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat. He had a number of occupations then including journalism and school teaching, and a number of disappointments with the rejections of many short stories and satires..... More
Date Published: [1798] Binding: No binding LEGAL DOCUMENTS RESPONDING RELATING TO CLAIMS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION LAND LOSS 15 Legal documents prepared for a potential very high profile court case and documents dating circa 1798. Herman Leroi, William Bayard & Gerrit Boon James Jackson, Peter Smith, William Laight & John Jacob..... More
Date Published: 1801-02 Binding: No binding 32 legal manuscript documents including letters and documents dating from ND, 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1804. The legal documents are regarding monies owed and the sale of Jacob Jordan’s (1770-1829) house and land in Terrebonne, Québec. A number of people are seeking payments including..... More
Date Published: 1972 to 1993 Binding: No binding & hard cover Thomas Keneally is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright and author. He won the Booker Prize in 1982 with Schindler's Ark, later made into the Steven Spielberg Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. The collection contains 18 items dating from 1972..... More
Date Published: 1888 to 1940 Binding: No binding John Coulson Kernahan was an English novelist, essayist, poet and editor. He also served as the copy-editor of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Kernahan’s wife, Jeanie Gwynne Bettany (née Mary Jean Hickling Gwynne), was a prolific novelist who often..... More
Date Published: 1857 to 1870 Binding: No binding Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an Anglican clergyman, university professor, historian and novelist, the author of many books including The Water-Babies and Westward Ho!. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin. A hotel opened in 1897 in Bloomsbury, London, was named..... More
Date Published: 1878 to 1993 Binding: Collection of a group 14 items of miscellaneous, ephemera, letters and photographs of Navy ships relating to Canada including HMCS Provider, HMS Ariadne, other Ships and Bou-Mahni Mines Algiers materials. Dates on photos are period dates not we believe when the prints were..... More
Date Published: 1977 to 2011 Binding: No binding & hard cover Dean Koontz is a best-selling American author in the genres of suspense, horror fiction, science fiction, thriller, and fantasy. He has also used approximately ten different pen names. His books have sold more than 450 million copies. Many of..... More
Date Published: 1916 to 1955 Binding: No binding & hard cover Alfred Kreymborg was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor, and anthologist. The son of a cigar-store owner, he attended public school in Manhattan and became a chess phenomenon by the age of ten. He began writing poetry in..... More
Date Published: 1896 Binding: No binding Adolf Ladenburg, two illustrated anti-Semitic manuscripts written in French about his wife and his mysterious death at sea. 1896. Illustrations done in ink and watercolour, signed F.B., identity unknown. The manuscripts and drawings are intended to be satirical and humorous in tone. But the..... More
Date Published: [1897] to 1927 Binding: No binding & hard cover William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. Le Queux mainly wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage, particularly in the years leading up to World War I. He wrote 150 novels dealing with international intrigue, as well as..... More
Date Published: 1912 to 1943 Binding: No binding & hard cover Six rare books, including a pre-published date presentation copy of a 1912 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town and two early translations, as well as several signed pieces of Leacock ephemera. Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a professor of political..... More
Date Published: [1940] Binding: No binding Gypsy Rose Lee was an actress, author, playwright and ecdysiast, famous for her burlesque act (she featured the tease in striptease). Gypsy had something about her, an approachable, self-deprecating demeanor aligned with a quiet self-certainty. She was perhaps the most singularly likeable stripper in..... More
Date Published: [1903] Binding: No binding & hard cover UNPUBLISHED LEIGHTON NOVEL CIRCA 1903 CALLED "SIR JAMES BRIDGES" Robert Leighton unpublished typescript novel "Sir James Bridges" collection Robert Leighton (1858-1934) wrote many adventure stories for boys and was the first literary editor of the Daily Mail. His wife was Marie..... More
Date Published: 1957 to 2000 Binding: No binding & hard cover Doris Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power..... More
Date Published: 1928 to 1987 Binding: No binding & hard cover Dorothy Livesay is considered one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets and the winner of two Governor General’s Awards (1944, 1947). Following the publication of Green Pitcher (1928) when she was only nineteen years of age, she published Signpost (1932). This..... More
Date Published: 1907 to 1928 Binding: No binding & hard cover LOCKE'S WORKS HAVE BEEN MADE INTO MANY MOTION PICTURES William J. Locke was a British novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His works have been made into many motion pictures, the most recent of which was Ladies in Lavender..... More
Date Published: 1850 to 1911 Binding: No binding & hard cover INTERESTING COLLECTION OF AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN AUTHOR Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the author of Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and many poetry collections, Longfellow (1807-1882) was America’s greatest poet of the nineteenth century. He was also a translator, educator..... More