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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: 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 Jan Struther (Joyce Anstruther) was an English columnist, poet, hymn writer, and radio personality. Her book, Mrs. Miniver, was the basis of a patriotic, romantic film about the life..... 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
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1968 to 2016 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover & Soft Cover #1) Mandate '68: The Year of Pierre Elliot Trudeau SULLIVAN, Martin - 1968 first edition - association copy from Sullivan to Pat Graham, CFTO Toronto host) - details lead-up..... 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
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
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
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
various: various. Place Published: various Publisher: various Date Published: 1773 to 1791 Binding: No binding #1) État de la pêche de morue faite par les français en 1773. Liv. XVII. No. 1. Broadside. 245 × 445 mm. #2) François Pascal Delattre. Rapport fait à l'Assemblée nationale, au nom du comité..... More
Toronto & Montreal. Place Published: Toronto & Montreal Date Published: c1837 to 1858 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding Rare broadside. A. 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
Mono: Mono Township, UC. Place Published: Mono Publisher: Mono Township, UC Date Published: 1853-56 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: No binding 47 small pieces of legal signed documents for road maintenance and repairs from 1853- 1856 in Mono Township. These 47 documents vary in size and condition with an average size..... 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 25 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: 1930 to 1973 Binding: No binding & hard cover Alec Waugh was a British novelist and travel writer. He was the son of Arthur Waugh (author, literary critic, and publisher) and elder brother of Evelyn Waugh. Waugh was a successful author of over 50 works, and lived in..... 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