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Date Published: 1773 to 1806 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding 2 legal Case File folders, 1773-1806 13 oversized legal documents Dating 1773, 1797-9, 1801 and 1806. • Case file #1; a) A rare and important 19pp folio manuscript document dated 30th Sept. 1824 by Judge James Reid with his..... More
Date Published: 1894 to 1924 Binding: No binding & hard cover Hallie Erminie Rives was a best-selling novelist and wife of the American diplomat Post Wheeler. Rives was the recipient of several poems written in her honour. The collection consists of 9 items dating from 1894 to 1924 specifically, 4..... More
Date Published: 1953 to 1962 Binding: No binding & soft cover Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of principal exponents of the nouveau roman movement, which emerged in France in the 1950s. Robbe-Grillet’s typical Möbius-strip narratives are intended to replicate the experiences of memory and..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1913 to 1975 Binding: No binding & hard cover Cecil Roberts was a prolific English journalist, editor, poet, dramatist, and novelist. During World War II, he worked in the USA for the British government in the war effort. He lived among..... More
Date Published: 1892 to 1930 Binding: No binding & hard cover Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts Known as the Father of Canadian Poetry, Charles G.D. Roberts was a poet and prose writer who inspired creativity in other poets of his generation, among them Bliss Carman (his cousin), Archibald Lampman and..... More
Date Published: 1847-1861 Binding: No binding EARLY HISTORIC 1847-1853 NIAGARA FALLS & CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE This Early Niagara Falls Suspension & Clifton Suspension Bridge Archive / Collection of 15 items enables one to follow the evolution of some events along the NFSB & CSB growth and history during the 1847-53..... More
Date Published: 1904 to 1955 Binding: No binding & soft cover Jules Romains (né Louis Henri Jean Farigoule), was a French poet, novelist, and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature sixteen times. Sinclair Lewis called him one of..... More
Date Published: 1887 to 1938 Binding: No binding & hard cover RUSS WAS A POPULAR FIGURE THAT PERFORMED DRAMATIC RECITALS Carolyn Ernestine Hale Russ of Boston, Mass. was an elocutionist, reader, and a popular figure that performed dramatic recitals during the late 1880s and 1890s. She was active with the..... More
Date Published: 1876-1895 Binding: SALA WAS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENCIAL BRITISH 19TH CENTURY JOURNALISTS George Augustus Henry Sala was an author and journalist who wrote extensively for the Illustrated London News as G. A. S. and was most famous for his articles and leaders for The Daily Telegraph..... More
Various: Various. Place Published: Various Publisher: Various Date Published: 1911 to 1929 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding & hard cover Robert W. Service collection contains 5 items dating form 1911 to 1929, specifically 3 books, 1 movie herald, and 1 photo. 3 Books: • The Trail of '98: A...... More
Date Published: 1937 to 1966 Binding: No binding & hard cover INTERESTING EDITH SITWELL COLLECTION Dame Edith Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style..... More
Date Published: 1867 to 1890 Binding: No binding & hard cover Samuel Smiles was a Scottish non-fiction author and a government reformer. His best known work, Self-Help, combined Victorian morality with sound free market ideas into moral tales, showing the benefits of thrift, hard work, education, perseverance, and character. He..... More
Date Published: 1950 to 1980 Binding: No binding Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow was an English physical chemist, a civil servant, government advisor, novelist, and social critic. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for The Two Cultures. In 1950 he..... More
Date Published: 1882 to 1893 Binding: No binding Herbert Spencer was a British philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and political commentator, noted for his advocacy of evolution and social Darwinism theory of evolution, who achieved an influential synthesis of knowledge, advocating the preeminence of the individual over society and of science..... More
Date Published: 1949 to 1965 Binding: No binding & hard cover Bella and Samuel Spewack were an American husband-and-wife writing team of plays and screenplays. Their most successful production was Kiss Me Kate with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The collection includes 22 items dating from 1949 to 1965..... More
Date Published: 1939 to 1985 Binding: No binding & hard cover Irving Stone was a prolific American author of biographical novels of historical personalities such as Lust for Life about Vincent van Gogh and The Agony and the Ecstasy about Michelangelo. In a century in which popular culture appropriated politics..... More
Date Published: 1939 to 1953 Binding: No binding & hard cover JAN STRUTHER WAS A BRITISH AUTHOR, POET, & RADIO PERONALITY The collection contains 11 items dating from 1939 to 1953, specifically, 1 signed letter, 5 Struther signed books, 3 photos, 1 cigarette card and 1 poster. Jan Struther (Joyce..... More
Date Published: 1919 to 1949 Binding: No binding & hard cover SWINNERTON WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF H.G. WELLS Frank Swinnerton was a prolific English novelist, critic, biographer, and essayist. He was a contemporary of H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett. The collection consists of 14 items dating from 1919..... More
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: 1922 to 1939 Binding: No binding & hard cover Genevieve Taggard was an American poet of thirteen poetry collections. The author of the biography The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (1930), she edited the anthologies May Days: An Anthology of Verse from Masses-Liberator (1925) and Circumference: Varieties..... More
Date Published: 1909 to 1941 Binding: 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 once, along with William..... More
Date Published: 1844 to 1890 Binding: TAYLOR IS WIDELY ACCREDITED WITH WRITING THE FIRST AMERICAN GAY NOVEL Bayard Taylor was an American poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, travel writer, and diplomat. Taylor is widely accredited with writing the first American gay novel: Joseph and His Friend: A Story of..... More
Date Published: 1925-1969 Binding: No binding & hard cover Louis Untermeyerwas an American poet, anthologist, critic, editor and translator of more than one hundred books for readers of all ages.. He is best remembered as a prolific anthologist whose collections have introduced students to contemporary American poetry since 1919. Untermeyer..... More
Date Published: 1925 to 1942 Binding: No binding & hard cover Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, illustrator, and award-winning children’s book author winning the first Newberry Medal in 1922 for “The Story of Mankind”. In 1942 he was knighted by Queen Wilhelmina for his contribution..... 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 21 American women poets, dating from 1842-1996 a total of 63 items, specifically 29 letters, 14 pieces of ephemera, 8 typescripts / manuscripts, 8 books..... More