WHY collections are interesting and worth collecting or the importance of collections.
Date Published: 1924 to 1966 Binding: No binding & hard cover Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for her blockbuster comic novel, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She wrote film scripts from 1912, and became arguably the first-ever staff scriptwriter, when D.W. Griffith put her on the..... 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
London. Place Published: London Date Published: [1947] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover This Louis MacNeice collection includes two important items; a signed carbon typescript of The Dark Tower and first edition of his Dark Tower book. 1) Louis MacNeice signed carbon typescript (ND, circa 1947) of The Dark Tower..... 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: 1914-1958 Binding: No binding & hard cover John Masefield was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Collection of ephemera include; • ALS to Rose Bruford, [31 January 1961], re sending poems to her, with envelope, “My thanks & blessings & greetings to James..... 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: 1864-1907 Binding: No binding Donald Grant Mitchell, pseudonym Ik Marvel, was an American essayist and novelist known for nostalgic, sentimental books on American life. He is particularly known for his essay collection, Reveries of a Bachelor, which focuses on the dream-like lives of mid-nineteenth-century Americans. His other works..... 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
Date Published: 1694, 1955, 1994 Binding: No binding & hard cover Pierre Berton / Farley Mowat three association collection (inscribed and provenance) items. The three items are all personally connected to these two Canadian literary giants. Born less than a year apart, Berton and Mowat were passionate story tellers of..... More
Date Published: 1912 to 1936 Binding: No binding & soft cover Douglas Murray was an English playwright. His works were produced on the English stage from 1907 to 1929. His most successful play is entitled “A Man from Toronto” which was made into a feature movie in 1934 by Gainsborough..... More
Date Published: 1935 to 1975 Binding: No binding & hard cover Robert Nathan was an American novelist, poet, a children’s author, and an author of screenplays and radio and TV programs. Nathan's seventh wife was the British actress Anna Lee, to whom he was married from 1970 until his death..... More
Date Published: 1931 to 1939 Binding: No binding & soft cover AN ACCLAIMED FRENCH JEWISH NOVELIST WHO DIED TRAGICALLY IN THE HOLOCAUST Irène Némirovsky born in Kiev, Ukraine was a novelist who lived most of her life in France after her family went into exile after the Russian Revolution. Although..... More
Boston: New England Palladium. Place Published: Boston Publisher: New England Palladium Date Published: 1813 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding 24 issues from 1813 War of 1812 New England Palladium, Boston, newspapers. About 40% with some written content descriptions, virtually all with some War of 1812 related content. The papers..... More
Boston: New England Palladium. Place Published: Boston Publisher: New England Palladium Date Published: 1814 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding 43 issues from 1814 War of 1812 New England Palladium, Boston, newspapers. About 40% with some written content descriptions, virtually all with some War of 1812 related content. The papers..... More
New York: New York American. Place Published: New York Publisher: New York American Date Published: 1838 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding • #1) January 5, Front Page, c. 6 - "REVOLT IN CANADA" - letter from Lockport dated Dec.27. Concerning the armament of Navy Island and the insurrection in..... More