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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Date Published: [1903] Binding: No binding & hard cover UNPUBLISHED LEIGHTON NOVEL CIRCA 1903 CALLED "SIR JAMES BRIDGES" Robert Leighton unpublished typescript novel "Sir James Bridges" collection Robert Leighton (1858-1934) wrote many adventure stories for boys and was the first literary editor of the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
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1887 to 1891 Binding: No binding & hard cover Charles Henry Lüders was born in Philadelphia, the son of Thomas L. and Eleanor C. Lüders. He was an American poet, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and a contributor to Our..... More
Date Published: 1889 to 1902 Binding: No binding Edna Lyall (pseud. of Ada Ellen Bayly, (1857-1903) was an English novelist. The daughter of upper-middle-class parents, educated privately, she spent her life living first with a sister married to the Vice Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, and later with another sister married..... More
Date Published: 1940 to 1981 Binding: No binding Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, playwright, essayist, Librarian of Congress, lawyer and writer who was associated with the Modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. MacLeish was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his..... More
Date Published: 1941 to 1988 Binding: Hugh MacLennan (was a Canadian novelist and English professor at Lower Canada College and McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards. The collection contains 6 items dating from 1941 to 1988 specifically, two signed books, a pamphlet, a magazine, a letter, and..... More
Date Published: 1948 to 1997 Binding: Hard & Soft cover Norman Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and political candidate. His novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) brought him early and wide renown. The collection has 8 items dating from 1948 to 1997, specifically 6 letters, 1 signed..... More
Date Published: 1892 to 1943 Edition: various Binding: No binding & soft cover A collection of 147 mostly unique ephemera items dating from 1892 to 1943, specifically approximately 70 leaflets and chapbooks, approximately 50 letters, 11 broadsides, 11 photos, 3 manuscripts/typescripts, 1 scrapbook, and 1 book. Edwin Markham (né Charles..... More
Date Published: 1916 to 1928 Binding: Hard Cover Russell Markland, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym of R.M. Ingersley, was an English poet and chronicler. The collection consists 4 items dating from 1916 to 1928, specifically, 1 Manuscript, 2 books of poetry, and 1 Pamphlet. 1 Manuscript (Ms.); • Ms..... More
Date Published: 1844 to 188? Binding: No binding & hard cover Captain Frederick Marryat was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novels and for his children's novels. He..... More
Date Published: 1934 to 1940 Binding: No binding & hard cover CALLED THE "PRODIGAL POETESS" BY THE MONTREAL GAZETTE Martha Martin was born in 1865 in Cologne, Germany. Martha and her family and settled in Montreal in 1870. Martha studied in Montreal and abroad, including music. She moved to about..... More
Date Published: 1915 to 1943 Binding: No binding HIS TOURING COMPANY HAD MANY SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTIONS Knighted in 1921, John Martin-Harvey was an English stage actor. He joined Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre company in 1882 and for many years he played only minor parts in Irving's productions. During the Great War..... More
Date Published: 1834 to 1895 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: 3-Ring Binder A unique and important early Ontario land ownership archive of Judge William Collis Meredith. This archive is a fantastic testimony of land and forest economics and the management of absentee land ownership in Southern Ontario in the 19th century;..... More
Date Published: 1875 to early 1900’s Binding: No binding & hard cover Small collection of 4 items dating from 1875 to early 1900’s, specifically 2 letters, 1 broadside and 1 book. Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson) was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a...... More
Date Published: 1875 to 1909 Binding: No binding Henry J. Morgan was a Canadian civil servant, lawyer, and author, best known for publishing collections of biographical sketches of notable Canadians such as Sketches of Celebrated Canadians, Bibliotheca Canadensis, and The Canadian Men and Women of the Time. He was a...... More
Date Published: 1951 to 1952 Binding: No binding Charles Morgan was a British playwright, novelist and essayist, noted for his dedicated craftsmanship to English prose. He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1936 and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949. From 1953 to..... More